Jagr plays for Czech team
Jaromir Jagr is back again.
The Czech winger and 13-time NHL all-star has recovered from a series of injuries that prevented him from playing for more than a year and appeared in a game Monday for the Kladno Knights, the hometown club he owns in the Czech Republic.
Jagr, 47, played on the top line alongside center Tomas Plekanec, another former NHL player.
He didn’t score in nearly 18 minutes but celebrated as Kladno, boosted by his presence, won, 2-0, at Havirov in a Czech second-league game.
Jagr returned home after the Calgary Flames released the NHL’s second all-time leading pointscorer on Jan. 28, 2018, but he was injured in his fifth game for Kladno.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Michigan State forward Nick Ward had surgery on his broken left hand and is expected to be out of for at least a few weeks.
Coach Tom Izzo said Monday that Ward was injured when his hand was hit or it made contact with the rim in a 62-44 win over Ohio State on Sunday.
Ward is the team’s second-leading scorer at 15.1 points a game and third-leading rebounder at 6.7. The 6-foot-9 junior returned to school after putting his name in the NBA draft last year.
Olson hospitalized: Former Arizona coach Lute Olson was hospitalized after suffering a minor stroke over the weekend.
Banner University Medical Center said the 84year-old Hall of Famer is in good condition, but will need some rehabilitation once he is released from the hospital.
Doctors said five days after Olson’s retirement in 2008 that the coach had suffered a previously undiagnosed stroke earlier that year.
Olson turned an Arizona program that won four games the year before he was hired in 1983 into a national powerhouse. The Wildcats won a national title under him in 1997 and went to the Final Four five times.
MISCELLANEOUS
Tiger Woods, Novak Djokovic, Lindsey Vonn and the France national soccer team were among the winners at the Laureus World Sports Awards, with Woods claiming the Comeback Award 19 years after he was first recognized.
Woods, who won the inaugural World Sportsman of the Year award in 2000, won the Tour Championship in September for his 80th PGA Tour title and his first since August 2013.
Djokovic matched Usain Bolt’s record by being named World Sportsman of the Year for the fourth time after winning Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. He also earned the honor in 2012, 2015 and 2016.
Vonn, who retired during the recent Alpine skiing world championships , took home the Spirit of Sport Award, which is given to an athlete for relentless dedication to his or her career, and France was honored for winning the World Cup in July.
SOCCER
A third-tier Italian soccer team was kicked out of the league after losing a match, 20-0, on Sunday.
Lega Pro, the governing body of Serie C, announced the exclusion of Pro Piacenza.
Pro Piacenza, which has financial problems and hadn’t paid its players or staff, needed to present a team for the match or would have been thrown out of the division after having already forfeited three matches.
The team turned up at Cuneo with just seven players, the minimum number required. They were all between 16 and 19 years old, with captain Nicola Cirigliano listed as the coach. One of the players forgot his identity card, so the masseur was forced to play.
HOCKEY
Logan Shaw had two goals and the host Manitoba Moose held off the Milwaukee Admirals, 3-2, at the Bell MTS Place.
Buffalo forward sent home: Buffalo Sabres forward Kyle Okposo was sent home for further medical evaluation three days after being punched in the face during a fight with the New York Rangers’ Tony DeAngelo.
Coach Phil Housley gave no details on Okposo’s condition after the Sabres practiced in Florida on Monday. Though the nature of the injury is unclear, Okposo did not return after being felled by DeAngelo’s punch during the fight 7:51 into the third period of a 6-2 loss to the Rangers on Friday.