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7-22-08
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LeBron Injures Ankle at Team USA Practice
NBA star LeBron James injured his ankle during practice with Team USA, the team America will enter in the Olympic Games in Beijing, reports said Wednesday.
Team officials, who tended to LeBron after practice in Las Vegas, said the injury was minor.
The said it occurred Tuesday when James landed on Kevin Durant's foot during a closed scrimmage between Team USA and a select squad of young NBA players at Valley High School.
Coach Mike Krzyzewski said he would know more on Wednesday after the Cleveland Cavaliers forward had a chance to rest.
Cardinals Try to Limit Opposing Fans in Stadium
A new plan being implemented by the Arizona Cardinals seeks to limit the number of opposing teams' fans in Phoenix University Stadium, which has continually sold out. For the first two seasons since the new stadium opened, the Cardinals sold out every game. But as the third season approaches, ticket sales have slowed somewhat. As a result, Cardinals managers are seeking to require fans who buy tickets to the Oct. 12 game against the Dallas Cowboys to also buy tickets to the Aug. 7 season opener against the New Orleans Saints. "Our goal is to have as many Cardinal fans in the stadium as possible," team spokesman Mark Dalton said. The Cards have created a decisive home field advantage in the past two seasons and want to keep that up, Dalton said. Dalton estimated about 58,000 season tickets have been sold. Ideally, the Cardinals would like to sell about 60,000 season tickets and hold back 3,000 or so to sell for individual games.
Golden Girl Getty Dies
Actress Estelle Getty, who won an Emmy Award for wisecracking octogenarian Sophia Petrillo in the hit 80's sitcom The Golden Girls, had died at the age of 84.
Getty, who was born Estelle Scher in New York to Polish immigrant parents, passed away at her home on Hollywood Boulevard on Tuesday. She had been suffering from advanced dementia.
Getty's movie credits included films like Tootsie alongside Dustin Hoffman, Mannequin and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot with Sylvester Stallone, but it was The Golden Girls, about four older women living together in Miami, that made her a household name.
Getty won an Emmy in 1988 for the show and her character Sophia Petrillo was so popular that she was brought back in the 1990's for two spin-off shows - Empty Nest and The Golden Palace.
Batman Bale Arrested For Assault
The star of the latest Batman movie that is currently breaking box office records has been released on bail after being arrested by London police over allegations he assaulted his mother and sister.
Variety magazine reports that Bale, 34, was arrested and held for more than four hours on Tuesday after he went to the London police station by appointment.
Bale's mother and sister complained to police they were assaulted by the Welsh-born actor at the Dorchester Hotel in London on Sunday night, a day before the European premiere of "The Dark Knight".
The Central London police did not refer to Bale by name as he has not been formally charged, but a police spokeswoman said: "A 34-year-old man attended a Central London police station this morning by appointment and was arrested in connection with an allegation of assault."
Bale's representatives in the US and England did not comment over the allegations.
The Dark Knight, which stars the late Aussie actor Heath Ledger as The Joker, raked in US$155.3 million over its opening weekend to surpass the previous record holder for the highest grossing weekend of all time, Spider-Man 3, which grossed US$151.1 million at US box offices last year in its debut weekend.
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