SKI CHAMPION STREET IS CHARGED FOR ASSAULT ON FATHER
salt lake city» Olympic goldmedalist skier Picabo Street has been charged with assault and domestic violence after authorities said she pushed her father down the stairs in a Utah home in December.
Street told police she locked her 76-year-old father in the basement of a Park City house after pushing him and then called authorities, according to charging documents released Wednesday. She said her father, Roland Street, pulled her hair in Dec. 23 fight at a house near Park City that police said Street’s three children witnessed.
Roland Street told police his daughter got angry and started yelling after he bumped his car into the house while trying to leave, documents show. When the two went inside the house, a physical altercation broke out.
He said his daughter grabbed him in the shoulder and neck area and pushed him down two flights of stairs. He said he may have hit his head. Police observed cuts on Roland Street’s elbow and neck.
Picabo Street, 44, was arrested and bailed out. She was charged by prosecutors about two weeks later with three counts of misdemeanor domestic violence in the presence of a child and one count of misdemeanor assault.
Arenado, McCaffrey honored
Third baseman Nolan Arenado of the Rockies and Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey, a graduate of Valor Christian High School, have been selected as Colorado’s professional and amateur athletes of the year, respectively, for 2015.
Both will be honored at the 52nd annual Colorado Sports Hall of Fame Induction & Awards Banquet on April 19 at the Denver Marriott City Center.
Russians may be investigated
paris» Findings reported by The Associated Press that track and field officials contemplated hiding the full extent of Russian doping before the 2012 London Olympics are “most concerning” and warrant further investigation, the World Anti-Doping Agency said.
Soccer’s Hawit extradited to U.S.
B bern, switzerland» Former FIFA vice president Alfredo Hawit was extradited to the United States to face bribery charges.
The Swiss justice ministry said Hawit was handed over to two American police officers in Zurich who accompanied him on the New York flight.
Hawit, from Honduras, was interim president of the CONCACAF regional governing body when he was arrested in Zurich on Dec. 3.
U.S. prosecutors accuse him of accepting bribes totaling millions of dollars linked to the sale of marketing rights to football tournaments in Latin America.
The FIFA ethics committee suspended Hawit for 90 days after his arrest.
Big 12 can hold title game
B san antonio» The Big 12 will be allowed to hold a football championship game in the future if it wants to under a rule change approved at the NCAA’s annual convention.
The change scraps the requirement that leagues have 12 members and play in two divisions in order to hold a title game. The new rule lets a smaller league play a title game pitting its top two teams, provided it plays a round-robin regular season schedule as the Big 12 does now.
MLB sets games in Mexico City
B mexico city» The mayor of Mexico City said Major League Baseball will return to the city in March for a twogame series between the Houston Astros and the San Diego Padres.
MLB hasn’t been played in Mexico’s capital since March 2004, when the Astros faced the Florida Marlins in a two-game preseason series. The series will be played on March 26-27.