Buffalo Bills defensive back Donte Whitner has pleaded not guilty to charges that he forced his way past police during an altercation at a Cleveland nightclub. Whitner was charged with aggravated disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Police say they used a stun gun on the 23-year-old and handcuffed him when he tried to force his way past officers trying to control a crowd outside a nightclub on April 11. They say it was unclear why he was trying to leave the club and head for the melee outside. Since then, Whitner has apologized. • Los Angeles Lakers’ point guard, Derek Fisher has been stalked and harassed by woman named Symone Fisher (no relation). Derek Fisher, who allegedly has been a victim of stalking and harassment, is seeking to obtain a temporary restraining order. In the documents, Derek Fisher claims Ms. Fisher has been harassing him since 2001, but the situation has gotten worse over the past few months. According to the information provided by Derek Fisher, he contends that the woman has been showing up at his work and at his private residence in Southern California. It has also been reported that in the restraining order, he also asked for protection for his wife, Candace, and four children. After looking into a number of unsolicited emails, internet messages and letters from Symone Fisher suggesting the two were married, a Los Angeles County detective investigating the case recommended that Fisher get a restraining order. • Ice Hockey Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur has been convicted of giving contradictory evidence at his son's bail hearing and could face jail time. Quebec court Judge Claude Parent handed down the verdict and Lafleur, 57, is to be sentenced next month. The government is asking that Lafleur be given a conditional sentence, while the defense is seeking a fine. Lafleur faces a maximum prison sentence of 14 years. During a bail hearing in 2007, the National Hockey League legend said his son Mark would respect a court-mandated curfew but at a later hearing admitted his son had spent two nights in a motel, one the elder Lafleur drove him to himself. Mark Lafleur pleaded guilty last June to 14 charges, including assault with a weapon, making death threats, forced confinement, theft and dangerous driving. He was sentenced earlier this year to 15 months of house arrest. • A Tennessee man is suing Washington Redskins’ defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth, saying the All-Pro was driving his black Ferrari like a maniac when the player sent the man’s car crashing into the concrete median of an interstate highway and leaving him disabled. Corey Edmonson needed hip replacement surgery after the Dec. 13 accident, and attorney Jon Perry filed the lawsuit for Edmonson in Williamson County Circuit Court seeking $7.5 million in compensatory damages. Haynesworth’s agent did not immediately return an e-mail message. A Nashville attorney who represented Haynesworth on a previous traffic case did not return a message left with his office. The lawsuit also asks for punitive damages amounting to no less than 25 percent of Haynesworth’s guaranteed money from Washington. He set an NFL record when guaranteed $41 million in the seven-year, $100 million contract with the Redskins he signed Feb. 27. Haynesworth was indicted in March by a grand jury on charges of reckless driving and having an expired registration for the incident. Haynesworth was driving a black Ferrari when he tried to pass Edmonson’s car, which crashed into the concrete median on Interstate 65.

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Costa Rican police are investigating claims by two photographers that they were shot at by bodyguards at the wedding of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bundchen. Agence France-Presse photographer Yuri Cortes and Rolando Aviles of Costa Rican newspaper Al Dia claim Bundchen’s bodyguards tried to seize their cameras’ memory cards and shot at their car when they drove away. Nobody was hurt. Don Yee, Brady’s agent said security personnel reported having no knowledge of the incident. • Someone got a bargain with Bernard Madoff’s Mets season tickets. The two seats in the Delta Club Gold section behind home plate auctioned for $38,100 on eBay, well below the list price for the pair of about $56,000. • Frank Robinson was appointed special assistant to the MLB commissioner, a new role for the Hall of Famer who’s spent more than a half-century in baseball. The 73-year-old Robinson is the only player to win MVP awards in both leagues. The former outfielder also has been a major league manager, assistant general manager, and an executive in the commissioner’s office. • The passenger injured in the car crash that killed Anaheim Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart had his status upgraded to fair and has been undergoing physical and speech therapy. Jon Wilhite, of Manhattan Beach, remains in intensive care at the UC Irvine Medical Center, but can move and is not paralyzed, hospital spokesman John Murray said. • The owner of a minor league football team that offered Michael Vick a contract told a newspaper he didn’t know about the publicity stunt and would not have approved it. “I’m a dog lover and I don’t want anything to do with (Vick),” Albany Firebirds owner Walter Robb told The Times Union for a story posted on its Web site. Earlier, the arenafootball2 franchise announced it had offered the 28-year-old quarterback a one-year contract at the league standard: $200 a week plus a $50 bonus for a win. “That’s a joke,” Robb said. “Can you imagine him playing for $200 a week? I think (the offer) was a big mistake.” The announcement was later pulled from the team’s Web site. Firebirds general manager Garen Szablewski told The Times Union the team’s marketing department came up with the idea to make an offer to Vick. • Former NBA star Jayson Williams was zapped with a stun gun by police in his swank hotel suite after the reported suicidal athlete resisted attempts by officers to take him to a hospital. Police were called to the hotel in lower Manhattan's Battery Park City neighborhood around 4 a.m. when a female friend reported the former New Jersey Nets player was acting suicidal. When officers arrived, the 6-foot-10, 325-pound Williams appeared drunk and agitated, police said. There were empty bottles of prescription drugs strewn around his disheveled hotel suite and several suicide notes. Officers with the Emergency Services Unit, an elite team trained to deal with emotionally disturbed people, responded and stunned Williams with a taser after he resisted attempts to be hospitalized. • WWD reports that David Beckham will be designing a new line for Adidas. He’s just collaborated with James Bond, the owner of the boutique sneaker chain Undefeated. He and Beckham have teamed up to create a fall-winter men’s collection for Addidas. Beckham is a huge fan of the stores, and someone close to him thought it would be perfect if he did a line for Addidas. The collection will be under the Adidas Originals by Originals collection. Reports show that David's new line will be a combination of his take on American sportswear and a remixing of past Addidas designs. The collection features materials such as leather, cashmere and silk, while the footwear builds on iconic Adidas styles. The duo also developed accessories and thermal layering pieces. • Somebody posing as a Washington Post reporter convinced ESPN that one of the Washington Capitals' star players had been suspended for the decisive Eastern Conference playoff Game 7 against the New York Rangers. "I was on my way to the rink this morning and my buddy called me and was a little upset I was missing Game 7," said Capitals defenseman Mike Green, a finalist for the Norris Trophy given to the NHL's top defenseman. "I had no idea what for. It kind of caught me off guard." ESPN SportsCenter hosts Josh Elliot and Hannah Storm relayed that Green and teammate Donald Brashear were suspended under a "Breaking News" banner Monday at 9:52 a.m. Within a half hour, ESPN retracted the story. • A Delaware bankruptcy judge granted Magna Entertainment Corp.’s request for approval of its plan to sell several horse tracks and other assets. The plan approved by Judge Mary Walrath includes Santa Anita Park in California, Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Thistledown in Ohio and Portland Meadows in Oregon, as well as MEC’s interest in Lone Star Park in Texas. Ontario-based Magna, the largest horse track owner in the U.S., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March, saying it was unable to obtain new financing while supporting its existing debt. The sale plan calls for expressions of interest in any of the racetracks to be submitted by May 27, with definitive bids due by July 31. An auction will be held in New York City on Sept. 8, followed by a court hearing in Delaware three days later. Magna attorney Brian Rosen noted that the company might seek approval later to sell other assets currently not in the mix, including Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, home of the second jewel of the Triple Crown. Last week, MEC pulled Pimlico and its other Maryland assets, Laurel Park and a training center in Bowie, from the list of assets to be sold. • Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James became the first player from his franchise to be named National Basketball Association's Most Valuable Player. The 24-year-old scored 28.4 points, 7.6 rebounds and 7.2 assists on average per game in what is his sixth season in the NBA.

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