BASKETBALL

Red Claws sign Miller; Nader out with injury

The Maine Red Claws signed Malcolm Miller to replace injured forward Abdel Nader.

Miller was signed from the available player pool and has been activated for the Red Claws’ game Saturday against Raptors 905.

The 6-foot-6, 200-pound Miller, who is no relation to the Malcolm Miller that played all of last season for Maine, played collegiately at Southern and has spent the last two seasons playing overseas.

Nader was deactivated after suffering a shoulder injury in the Red Claws’ loss to the Fort Wayne Mad Ants on Tuesday. Through six games, Nader, a power forward, was the Red Claws’ leading scorer with 24.3 points per game.

HIGH SCHOOLS

GIRLS’ HOCKEY: Lauren Topchik scored twice and Scarborough (1-0) scored three third-period goals to beat Biddeford (0-1) 4-0 in Lewiston. Lucy Bogdanovich added a goal and an assist for Scarborough. Logan Bruns also scored.

OLYMPICS

DOPING: Seven athletes from Belarus, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan were retroactively sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee after testing positive in a re-analysis of their stored doping samples.

Kazakhstan weightlifter Ilya Ilyin was formally stripped of two gold medals – one each from the London and Beijing Games, both in the 94-kilogram class.

Aksana Miankova of Belarus was stripped of the London gold medal in the women’s hammer throw. The IOC said she tested positive for turinabol and oxandrolone.

SOCCER

GERMAN LEAGUE: Uli Hoeness is back in charge of Bayern Munich 270 days after his early release from a 42-month prison term for tax evasion.

Some 7,152 Club members voted overwhelmingly for the 64-year-old Hoeness, who was the only candidate, to become president again. There were 108 votes against and 58 abstentions.

BOXING

WBO: Manny Pacquiao says his next fight will be in April or May next year as that best fits his schedule as a senator for the Philippines. And he would like a rematch with Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Pacquiao, who defeated Jessie Vargas for a welterweight title earlier this month, said that the opponent for his next fight is still undecided.

His right hand, which had been injured for the fight last May, is now in “100 percent” condition.

TENNIS

DAVIS CUP: In a battle of big servers, Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro beat Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 7-5 to leave the two teams tied at 1-1 following the opening singles matches in the Davis Cup final.

Argentina is the only nation in Davis Cup history to have reached four finals without winning the title.

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