Jockey Desormeaux in rehab
Preakness Stakes-winning jockey Kent Desormeaux has gone to alcohol rehabilitation but will return in time to ride Exaggerator in the Belmont Stakes next weekend.
“It was time to take a sober look at my life and take this step,” Desormeaux said in a brief statement issued Saturday through his agent J.R. Pegram.
The 46-year-old Hall of Fame rider won the Preakness aboard Exaggerator on May 21 after they finished second in the Kentucky Derby on May 7. The colt is trained by Desormeaux’s older brother Keith.
He is scheduled to return to riding Thursday at Belmont Park in New York, where Exaggerator is expected to run in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday.
Last year, Desormeaux was fined $2,500 by track stewards for being under the influence of alcohol during a race program at Del Mar.
Kyle Larson needed rain in Pocono to snap a victory drought. Larson had the lead when the Xfinity Series race was red-flagged after 53 of 100 scheduled laps and won at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa., for his first NASCAR victory of the season.
Sebastien Bourdais raced to his first IndyCar victory of the season, beating Conor Daly by two seconds at Belle Isle in Detroit.
Bourdais had not led a single lap in any of the season’s first six races, and the Frenchman hadn’t finished higher than eighth. He led only 12 of the 70 laps Saturday on the 2.35-mile street course, but Bourdais was able to hold on the rest of the way after Daly made a pit stop on lap 61 and gave up the lead.
The Kings signed defenseman Brayden McNabb to a two-year contract. McNabb, 25, will be in store for a significant raise as he will make $1.6 million this upcoming season and $1.8 million in the following season.
He had 14 points and 92 penalty minutes in 81 games this past season — his second with the Kings — and earned $650,000. McNabb was due to become a restricted free agent on July 1.
In final tuneups for soccer’s European championships: Striker Olivier Giroud scored twice as France beat Scotland, 3-0, Austria slumped to a 2-0 loss to the Netherlands, and Germany had a comfortable if uninspiring 2-0 win over Hungary.
A six-month jail term for a former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus after both attended a fraternity party is being decried as a slap on the wrist.
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced 20-year-old Brock Turner to six months in county jail and three years’ probation after the woman who was assaulted read the court an emotional statement that has gone viral. Turner must also complete a sex offender management program and register as a convicted sex offender for the rest of his life.
Former NFL tight end Henry Childs, a Pro Bowl player with the New Orleans Saints who also had stints with Atlanta, the Los Angeles Rams and Green Bay, has died at age 65.