NEW YORK — Expected to be among the Kentucky Derby favorites, Quality Road missed a final workout Monday morning at Belmont Park and was declared out of Saturday’s Run for the Roses by trainer Jimmy Jerkens.
“We couldn’t train him so we decided we couldn’t run him,” Jerkens said. “He just isn’t sound enough.”
Quality Road developed a quarter crack on his right front foot last week and missed significant training. He galloped Sunday on Belmont’s training track, and Jerkens found a spot of blood on the newly patched crack.
Bulls guard Gordon day to day
CHICAGO — Chicago Bulls guard Ben Gordon is listed as day to day after an MRI confirmed he has a strained left hamstring.
Gordon was hurt in the second quarter of Sunday’s game against the Boston Celtics, then sent Game 4 into a second overtime with a 3-pointer with 4.5 seconds left. The Bulls beat the Celtics 121-118, tying the series 2-2 with Game 5 tonight.
• Los Angeles Lakers forward Luke Walton will miss at least one week of the NBA playoffs with a partial ligament tear in his left ankle.
• Former NBA star Jayson Williams was zapped with a stun gun by police in his swank New York hotel suite after the troubled athlete resisted attempts by officers to take him to a hospital.
• A federal judge in Las Vegas has ordered former NBA star Dennis Rodman to pay a former casino employee $225,000 for grabbing and humiliating her at work in March 2006. Sara Ure, 28, accused Rodman of grabbing her and forcing her to dance, holding her against her will and slapping her backside in front of subordinates and patrons.
U.S. beats Austria at worlds
BERN, Switzerland — The United States broke open a close game with four goals in the third period, beating Austria 6-1 to reach the second round of the ice hockey world championship.
The U.S. finishes Group C play against Sweden on Wednesday. Sweden was stunned by Latvia, losing 3-2 in a shootout.
Footnotes.
Lance Armstrong won’t compete in this week’s Tour of the Gila cycling race in New Mexico after the International Cycling Federation said it plans to enforce a rule that prohibits top-level professional teams from competing in national-level events.
• Mike Skinner gave NFL star Randy Moss his first victory as a NASCAR truck owner, winning the rain-shortened O’Reilly Auto Parts 250 trucks race at Kansas Speedway.
• Former Indianapolis 500 winner Buddy Lazier and Milka Duno have been added to the entry list for the May 24 race.
• Former Michigan quarterback Steven Threet plans to transfer to Arizona State, where he would sit out the 2009 season and have two years of eligibility remaining.
• Mississippi State forward Jarvis Varnado declared for the NBA draft but won’t hire an agent.
• The HSBC Champions in China, to be played Nov. 5-8, has been elevated to a World Golf Championship this year with a new qualifying criteria and a $7 million purse, the highest ever for a golf tournament in Asia.
