Wizards of MLS Have Their Sights on Moore
Joe-Max Moore could be on his way back to Major League Soccer with the Kansas City Wizards.
Moore’s work visa in England expired, and the 31-year-old American forward can no longer play for Everton of the Premier League.
“Joe-Max Moore is someone who we are interested in,” Wizard General Manager Curt Johnson said on the Everton Web site. “He’s a great player and he has local ties to the Midwest and Oklahoma. We have some space under the salary cap, so we are able to look at a guy like Joe-Max.”
Moore hasn’t played this season for Everton, and the team did not apply for a new permit even though seven months remain on his contract.
He joined Everton in December 1999 from the New England Revolution of MLS and has scored 10 goals in 64 games. He also has played with Nuremberg and Saarbruecken in Germany.
Moore has 24 goals in 100 games for the U.S. team, second behind Eric Wynalda’s record 32 goals.
Tennis
Martina Navratilova will play doubles with Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova in the women’s hard-court tournament that starts Monday at Gold Coast, Australia.
Navratilova, 46, became the oldest player to win a WTA Tour doubles title, winning in May at Madrid with Belarus’ Natasha Zvereva.
Navratilova has won 167 singles titles and 165 titles in doubles.
Patty Schnyder of Switzerland, the 1999 Gold Coast champion, probably will receive the top seeding when the draw is released Saturday.
Meghann Shaughnessy of the United States also will be in a field that includes 1998 winner Ai Sugiyama of Japan, 1997 champion Nathalie Dechy of France, Elena Bovina of Russia and Barbara Schett of Austria.
Miscellany
World Cup skiing champion Stephan Eberharter of Austria was cleared to compete in a downhill Sunday, returning a week earlier than anticipated from a Dec. 15 knee injury.
Eberharter, 33, completed a trial run Wednesday without pain. Doctors cleared the five-time winner this season to race at Bormio, Italy, the Austrian Ski Federation said.
“It was really terrific,” Eberharter told Austria Press Assn. “Every so often I felt a little bit of pulling, but otherwise had no pain anymore. It went great.”
Eberharter was hurt when he crashed during a giant slalom at Val d’Isere, France, and doctors didn’t believe he would be ready for Bormio.
World Boxing Organization middleweight champion Harry Simon of Namibia broke an arm and a leg during a head-on collision last month in an accident in which three Belgian tourists, including a 22-month-old girl, died.
Simon, 30, has been charged with culpable homicide in the Nov. 21 accident near the beach resort of Langstrand, Namibia.
Simon is scheduled to defend his title in March, but WBO officials are awaiting the outcome of legal proceedings.
According to witnesses, Simon’s car crashed into the Belgians’ pickup truck. Police said blood samples were taken from Simon to determine if he had been drinking.
In April 2001, Simon was in a car accident in which two Namibians died. The boxer’s blood samples disappeared after that accident and the case has not been resolved.
Two yachts withdrew after collisions and two men fell overboard in a dramatic start today to a race from Sydney, Australia, to Hobart, on the island state of Tasmania.
Trumpcard retired after colliding with the bigger Loki, and Valheru turned back after colliding with Peugeot Racing. Crew members of Valheru and Trumpcard fell overboard but were recovered quickly.
At the start of the event, rain pelted the 57 entries in the 630-nautical-mile race. The skipper of Trumpcard filed a protest over the collision.
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T.J. Simers is on vacation.
