Heart issues might force EPL'S Lockyer to retire

Tom Lockyer, the Premier League player who suffered an on-field cardiac arrest earlier this season, says he's “at peace” with the prospect of having to retire from the sport.

The Luton captain had a defibrillator fitted after collapsing during a game against Bournemouth in December. He had previously collapsed seven months earlier during a game at Wembley Stadium because he suffered atrial fibrillation.

The 29-year-old Lockyer, who recently became a father for the first time, has not given up hope of resuming his playing career. But he accepts that may not be possible.

“I would love to return to football, but ultimately it would have to come down to someone who's a cardiologist or a specialist who has done full research into what has gone on and if it could happen again, because we've got a little girl now and she takes priority,” Lockyer told BBC Radio Wales.

Texas Rangers right-hander Max Scherzer was scratched from his second scheduled rehab start Tuesday because of thumb soreness. The soreness is similar to what Scherzer, 39, experienced last year before being sidelined for the end of the regular season and the start of the playoffs for the World Series champion Rangers. Scherzer is rehabbing from surgery in mid-december to repair a herniated disk in his lower back.

German tennis legend Boris Becker was discharged from bankruptcy court in London after a judge found Wednesday he had done “all that he reasonably could do” to repay creditors tens of millions of pounds.

Becker, 56, fell far short of repaying creditors nearly US$62.5 million, but Chief Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Nicholas Briggs said it would be “perverse” not to end the case, given the efforts Becker made.

Becker was deported to Germany two years ago after serving eight months in a London prison for illicitly transferring large amounts of money and hiding $3.1 million in assets after he was declared bankrupt in 2017.