Alcohol Found in Skater Baiul After Crash

Figure skater Oksana Baiul was allegedly under the influence of alcohol when she ran her car off a road while returning home from a night out in Hartford, Conn., over the weekend.

Baiul, 19, had a blood-alcohol level of .168 after the accident early Sunday morning. The legal limit in Connecticut is .10 and the legal drinking age is 21.

The report was filed about 90 minutes after Baiul’s arrival at a hospital.

Baiul, a native of Ukraine and an Olympic gold medalist, was a few miles from her home in Bloomfield, a Hartford suburb, when her car skidded more than 100 feet, then veered off the road.

Baseball

Marvin Davis, the billionaire real estate investor who tried to purchase the Oakland Athletics and move them to Denver in the 1980s, said he’s interested in buying the Dodgers.

The Angels signed right-handed reliever Mike James to a three-year contract worth $1.8 million after he was 5-5 with a 2.67 earned-run average and one save last season.

As part of an unprecedented working arrangement with the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Japanese Pacific League, the San Diego Padres have acquired negotiating rights to Japanese pitcher Hideki Irabu, who was 12-6 with a 2.40 ERA in 1996.

Miscellany

Jorge Paez from Mexicali regained the World Boxing Council Continental Americas super-featherweight (130 pounds) championship with a 12-round split decision over former U.S. Olympian Julian Wheeler of Virginia Beach, Va., at the Forum.

The on-again and off-again fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Hector Camacho will take place March 1, instead of Feb. 28, at the Convention Center in Atlantic City, N.J.

NASCAR drivers Mark Martin, Terry Labonte, Jeff Gordon and Dale Jarrett have been chosen to compete in the International Race of Champions Series.

Pepperdine men’s tennis coach Glenn Bassett retired suddenly on Friday. Assistant Chuck Willenborg will take over the program of the sixth-ranked Waves.

Names in the News

Arnold Palmer remained hopeful about his chances of beating prostate cancer after receiving encouraging test results at the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn. . . . Virginia Military Institute named North Carolina State assistant Ted Cain as football coach.