Gold medalist Phelps pleads guilty to DUI

Gold medalist Phelps pleads guilty to DUI

BALTIMORE

Olympic gold medal swimmer Michael Phelps has pleaded guilty to drunken driving in Baltimore almost three months after he was arrested.

Phelps entered his plea to a charge of driving under the influence in Baltimore City District Court on Friday morning. He was sentenced to a year in prison, but the prison sentence is suspended. He must be on probation for a year and a half.

The 18-time gold medalist was arrested on Sept. 30. Documents show that the 29-year-old Phelps was leaving the Horseshoe Casino in downtown Baltimore when he was pulled over for speeding and crossing the double yellow line while driving in a tunnel. Police say Phelps registered a .14 percent on a blood-alcohol test. The legal limit to drive is .08 percent in Maryland.

A week after his arrest, USA Swimming suspended Phelps for six months. Phelps entered a six-week treatment program in October. This is his second DUI conviction. Phelps pleaded guilty to drunken driving in 2004 in another Maryland county.

Former boxing champ Ernie Terrell dies at 75

CHICAGO

Ernie Terrell, whose brief reign as heavyweight champion ended with a punishing loss to Muhammad Ali in a 1967 grudge match, has died. He was 75.

The son of Mississippi sharecroppers and long-time Chicago resident worked as fight promoter after his boxing career ended and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004. Terrell also twice ran unsuccessfully for alderman of his far South Side neighborhood and built a janitorial company that eventually employed 100 people. He died Tuesday in Chicago of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, according to his wife Maxine.

A wake is planned for Dec. 26.

Pirates and Hart agree to $2.5M, 1-year deal

PITTSBURGH

First baseman Corey Hart and the Pittsburgh Pirates have agreed to a $2.5 million, one-year contract.

The deal, which includes $2.5 million in performance bonuses, gives the Pirates a right-handed option at first base to join left-handed slugger Pedro Alvarez, who is moving from third to first.

The 32-year-old Hart hit .203 with six home runs and 21 RBI in 68 games for the Seattle Mariners in 2014, most of them as a designated hitter, and became a free agent in October when he refused an outright assignment to the minor leagues. He missed the 2013 season due to surgeries on both knees.

Hart is a career .271 hitter was a two-time All-Star while playing for Milwaukee in 2008 and 2010.

Penguins’ Maatta tests positive for mumps

PITTSBURGH

Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Olli Maatta is the third member of the team diagnosed with mumps.

The Penguins issued a statement Friday that Maatta tested positive for the virus and remains in isolation. Goaltender Thomas Greiss and defenseman Robert Bortuzzo tested negative.

Teammates Sidney Crosby and Beau Bennett were diagnosed with mumps in the last week. Crosby missed three games but returned for Thursday night’s overtime win against Colorado. Bennett tested positive on Monday and remains out indefinitely with a lower body injury.

Sandusky won’t get his pension back

HARRISBURG, Pa.

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky won’t be getting back the $4,900-a-month pension that was canceled two years ago after he was sentenced for child molestation.

Sandusky’s attorney Chuck Benjamin told The Associated Press on Friday that the State Employees’ Retirement System issued a 122-page opinion with the decision. Benjamin says he plans to challenge it in a lawsuit.

In June, a hearing examiner recommended that Sandusky get the pension back. If he’s survived by his wife, Dottie, she’s in line to continue collecting 50 percent of his pension benefits.

Wire reports