May 08th 2010
Sports Bites

Of all the things! A nuisance as an NBA player, Danny Ainge is still being a pest as general manager. Boston's GM was spotted in TV replays throwing a white towel in the air to distract Cleveland forward J.J. Hickson at the free throw line in the third quarter of Game 2 on Monday night. Ainge, sitting in the first seat to the right of Cleveland's basket, is seen reaching behind the stanchion to grab one of the ball boy's towels as Hickson prepares to shoot. Ainge then tosses the towel into the air on Hickson's second attempt with 1:53 remaining. At the time, the Celtics were leading 80-57 on their way to winning 104-86 and evening the Eastern Conference semifinal at one game apiece. Hickson made his second free throw. NBA spokesman Tim Frank said the league is aware of Ainge's actions and that ``the situation is under review.'

A New Zealander gave new meaning to the golfing term "hazard" when he fell from a cliff while searching for his ball at a course near Auckland. Think this New Zealander is extreme? The 66-year-old man sustained serious injuries but was in a stable condition in Auckland City Hospital after falling more than 100 feet onto seaside boulders, the New Zealand Herald newspaper reported Wednesday. The man had been playing alone and the accident was not discovered until staff discovered his abandoned golf cart, and then saw an arm protruding from bushes among the rocks at the cliff's base Tuesday afternoon. A helicopter ambulance was called and was able to land on the shore near where the man had fallen.

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has hinted at the summer exits of some senior Old Trafford players, as he looks to next season. Ferguson has not completely given up on landing a fourth consecutive Premier League title. However, the Scot does accept his side are in need of improbable assistance from neighbours Wigan and the situation looks "bleak". Yet even if United somehow overturn the odds and become the first team to win four consecutive championships, Ferguson feels changes in personnel are inevitable. "You have to take a decision about where we can improve the team," Ferguson told MUTV.

And finally for us with our Sports Bitees, it’s cricket, lovely cricket! ICC World Twenty 20 cricket. History was made when West Indies’ 18-year-old all-rounder Deandra Dottin, became the first woman to score a Twenty20 international century. Bottin slammed 112 off 45 balls against South Africa to give West Indies Women a total of 175 runs for the lose of 5 wickets in their allotted twenty overs.

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