April 17th 2010
Sports Bites

He is ready to BRING IT! Loots Bosman has the records to show just how dangerous he could be in the ICC World Twenty20 2010 in the Caribbean. He made his selection for the South African squad a formality in November last year when he contributed 94 off 45 balls in a world record first wicket partnership of 170 with South Africa captain Graeme Smith. It was England's bowlers who suffered that day at Centurion as the Kimberly born batsman hammered nine sixes and five fours. England had been warned of his extraordinary power a couple of days earlier when he took 58 off 31 balls. "I think the West Indies will have a home advantage but all the teams are well-balanced but for me there is no real favourite since it's all about the guy who plays well on the day will be the one to win it for the team.”

A woman who said she had an affair with Tiger Woods is due in court Thursday after she was arrested on suspicion of driving with a suspended license in West Hollywood. Jaimee Grubbs was taken into custody Wednesday after a random license plate check of her 2004 Ford Mustang showed she had three outstanding warrants for driving on a suspended license, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Jeff Gordon said. Grubbs was issued a new citation after it was determined she was still driving on a suspended license, Gordon said.

Eddie Jordan and his Princeton offense were a flop in Philadelphia. Team president and general manager Ed Stefanski fired Jordan on Thursday after one season as coach, saying the Sixers took an "unacceptable" step backward after two straight seasons in the playoffs. "What I thought would happen, did not occur," Stefanski said. "The decision was not the right one." Jordan is finished after a woefully underachieving season that had the Sixers near the bottom of the Eastern Conference. Jordan was hired last summer and sold his Princeton offense as the way to turn them into contenders.

Players resting at the end of the regular season will be discussed among NBA executives, though commissioner David Stern doesn't see anything coming of it. With a healthy LeBron James set to miss his fourth straight game Wednesday night, Stern said he is putting the matter on the agenda for the board of governors meetings Thursday and Friday in New York. "We're troubled by it, because it would be our preference that healthy players play,'' the commissioner said during his annual pre-playoffs conference call.

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