Picabo Street’s domestic-violence case dismissed

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A Utah judge has dismissed domestic-violence and assault charges against Olympic gold-medal skier Picabo Street.

Street was facing misdemeanor charges after prosecutors said she threw her 76-year-old father down the stairs and locked him in the basement during a fight at her home near Park City, Utah. Her lawyer Street, 44, was defending herself during the Dec. 23 incident.

Prosecutors last week moved to drop the charges, saying the matter shouldn’t be handled in court but instead reviewed by a state office that investigates elder abuse. A judge closed the case Monday.

Street won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in the super-G.

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15th seed defeats

Serena in Florida

Serena Williams’ 20-match winning streak at Key Biscayne, Fla., ended with a 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-2 loss to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the fourth round of the Miami Open.

Williams was bidding for her ninth title in the event and her fourth in a row. But after a grueling first set that lasted nearly an hour, the top-seeded player faded on a hot afternoon.

Kuznetsova, seeded 15th, won with defense, extending points until Williams would make a mistake. The Russian finished with only 18 unforced errors to 55 for Williams.

In addition, Williams hit 13 aces but also had nine double faults and was broken six times.

College baseball: Michael Breen’s RBI single with two outs in the bottom of the ninth capped a four-run rally for San Jose State (8-15), giving the Spartans a 10-9 victory over Stanford (12-7). The Cardinal scored four times in the top of the ninth.

Concussions: New research bolsters evidence that a simple blood test someday might be used to detect concussions. It suggests that a protein linked with head trauma might be present in blood up to a week after injury, which could help diagnose patients who delay seeking treatment.

The study involved patients at one hospital in Florida and the results are preliminary — a concussion blood test based on the two proteins studied or on other so-called biomarkers under review is likely at least a few years from routine use.

Soccer: A former president of Honduras pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and admitted to taking bribes in the FIFA scandal over broadcast rights.

Rafael Callejas, 72, who was a member of FIFA’s television and marketing committee, entered the plea to racketeering conspiracy and wire-fraud conspiracy in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y.

He also agreed to forfeit $650,000, payable within a year, for his role in a system so corrupt that hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal payments were made over the past quarter-century.

Doping: Russian Olympic athletes have appealed to President Vladimir Putin to help a coach who was banned for life over doping.

Four Olympic medalists, two of whom have been stripped of medals as part of doping bans, are among signatories on an open letter calling on the Russian president to “restore the good name” of coach Viktor Chegin, whose ban was announced Friday.

Russian antidoping authorities ruled Chegin helped run “a scheme of using banned substances” at his training center, which fielded a world-beating team of race walkers but also saw more than two dozen failed doping tests.