Sports shorts Gladiators’ Veal named AFL Defensive Player of the Week

Gladiators defensive back Kenny Veal was named AFL Defensive Player of the Week for his performance in a 59-48 win over Baltimore June 16.

Veal, a 5-foot-11, 190 pound defensive back out of Toledo, had seven tackles and his first career interception in the win.

Veal is the second Gladiator to receive player of the week honors this season after Arvell Nelson was named Offensive Player of the Week in Week 9. The Gladiators (3-7) are in third place behind Philadelphia (9-0) and Tampa Bay (7-2).

College basketball

YOUNG CHOOSES OHIO

STATE» New Ohio State basketball coach Chris Holtmann has persuaded a top prospect to follow him from Butler to the Buckeyes.

The school said Monday that 6-foot-8 forward Kyle Young has signed to play for the Buckeyes next season. Young, a three-time AP All-Ohio performer out of Massillon Jackson, was recruited by Holtmann and previously had committed to him at Butler.

He joins guard Braxton Beverly from Hazard, Kentucky, and forward Kaleb Wesson from Westerville, Ohio, in Ohio State’s recruiting class.

NBA

TIMBERWOLVES REACH

DEAL WITH FITBIT » The Minnesota Timberwolves are getting into the jersey advertisement game with a Fitbit patch in a three-year deal.

The Timberwolves announced the marketing collaboration for the team’s first jersey patch on Tuesday. Fitbit also will be featured in the newly renovated Target Center, with the team exploring ways the wearable technology can help players, employees and fans track their health and fitness during practices, games and everyday activities.

The Timberwolves were among four other teams bidding for Fitbit’s business.

Golf

PGA TO ADD BLOOD TESTING » The PGA Tour is beefing up its anti-doping policy by adding blood testing next season.

The tour also is bringing its list of banned substances in line with the World Anti-Doping Association. The revised policy takes effect in October at the start of next season.

Blood testing will allow the tour to detect any use of human growth hormone, which is on the list of banned substances but cannot be detected through urine. The tour, however, still plans to use urine samples for most of its drug testing next season.

The tour says it will report any suspensions for drugs of abuse. Under the current policy, the tour is required to announce when a player has been suspended only for performance-enhancing drugs.

Soccer

RONALDO SUMMONED TO

COURT» Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Mourinho are the latest members of the soccer elite to be accused of tax fraud in Spain.

On Tuesday, Ronaldo was told to appear in court on July 31, while Mourinho was accused by a state prosecutor of defrauding Spain’s Tax Office of 3.3 million euros ($3.7 million).

The cases are about the profits made from image rights, not salaries from their clubs. Real Madrid and Man United are not directly involved.

Last week, Ronaldo was accused by a state prosecutor of four counts of tax fraud totaling 14.7 million euros ($16.5 million). He is now under official investigation and will have to appear in the Pozuelo de Alarcon court No. 1 on July 31.

The prosecutor said last Tuesday that there was evidence that Ronaldo used a shell company in the Virgin Islands to hide the money he had made from image rights.

Ronaldo has denied any wrongdoing.