Antoine Larkins was ordered to serve 21 years in prison for robbing NBA star Antoine Walker and has been sentenced to another 21 years for holding up the New York Knicks’ Eddy Curry. Larkins will serve the two sentences concurrently. Larkins pleaded guilty to breaking into Curry’s home in the Chicago suburb of Burr Ridge on July 28, 2007. • A former NFL linebacker and his ex-lover were charged with killing a wealthy Orange County businessman for financial gain nearly 15 years ago. Nanette Packard McNeal and Eric Naposki, who played in the late 1980s for the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts, were arrested and each charged with one count of murder. Both had always been suspects in the December 1994 shooting of multimillionaire William Francis McLaughlin, 55, but were not arrested at the time because police hadn’t found the 9mm handgun used in the murder, among other evidence. Authorities declined to specify what new evidence was found. Farrah Emami, spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney’s office said, “We feel at this point we have sufficient evidence to prove they were responsible for the death of Mr. McLaughlin.” McNeal, 43, McLaughlin’s former girlfriend who was known at the time as Nanette Ann Johnston, stood to collect $1 million in life insurance from his death, authorities said. She also was accused of writing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of checks drawn from his accounts. Police said Naposki, 44, who was romantically involved with McNeal, is believed to have shot McLaughlin six times at his Newport Beach home. Naposki was given a key to McLaughlin’s home by McNeal, authorities said. McNeal pleaded guilty in 1996 for stealing nearly $500,000 from McLaughlin before and after his death. She was sentenced to one year in jail. • Former NBA star Jayson Williams was arrested after authorities say he punched someone in the face outside a Raleigh nightclub, the latest legal tribulation for the All-Star who has spent years in the courtroom since an injury ended his basketball career. Williams was charged with one count of simple assault and released on $1,000 bond. • New Jersey police are investigating a woman’s claim that she was raped by two men at the home of NY Jets safety Kerry Rhodes, although the Morris County prosecutor said the player is not a suspect in the case. The New York Post reported that the woman, a Canadian tourist, said she met Rhodes and another man at a Manhattan nightclub before being taken to a home in Morristown, N.J., where Rhodes owns a townhouse, according to authorities. Morris County prosecutor Robert A. Bianchi issued a statement saying, “Mr. Rhodes is not the target of any criminal investigation. Rumors and media reports to the contrary are untrue.” • Miami Dolphins defensive end Randy Starks has been charged with using his truck to hit a police officer that tried to stop the vehicle on foot. Miami Beach Police say the officer tried to stop the 25-year-old player when he was driving a truck packed with 13 people in heavy traffic. They say the vehicle was meant for four people. Police say Starks kept slowly moving forward even as the officer was beside the truck. They say Starks swerved the vehicle slightly, hitting the officer in the chest and pinning him against another vehicle. The officer wasn’t injured, but Starks was charged with aggravated battery. • O.J. Simpson has appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn his convictions for armed robbery and kidnapping during a Las Vegas hotel room confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers. Appeals in Nevada typically take more than a year. • Mark Cuban, the controversial owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, filed a motion asking a US judge to throw out an insider-trading lawsuit against him. Securities and Exchange Commission charged the 50-year-old Texas business tycoon with selling 600,000 shares of stock from Internet search engine company, Mamma.com Incorporated.

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According to ESPN, Matt Millen will call college football games and appear on NFL studio shows. He served as a guest analyst with NBC during last season’s playoffs after the Detroit Lions fired him in September. Millen took over the Lions in 2001 and lead them to one of the worst eight-year stretches in NFL history. • Matthew Reeve will wear bib No. 1275 at the New York City Marathon, a significant number for the son of the late Christopher Reeve. It represents the 1.275 million people with spinal cord injuries—the money he raises will go to the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. The 29-year-old Reeve will make his marathon debut on Nov. 1, the New York Road. He’ll be part of Team Reeve, one of a record 75 official New York City Marathon charities. • The wife of Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Scott Schoeneweis has been found dead at her home, according to authorities, and the cause of death was not immediately known. Gabrielle Dawn Schoeneweis, 39, was found dead on the floor of the master bedroom of her home in suburban Phoenix. Deputies had gone to the house in response to a call from Schoeneweis's 14-year-old daughter, who had found her mother lying on the floor and was unable to rouse her. • The Dallas Cowboys took advice from a man who falsified his educational credentials and served federal prison time for drug trafficking to make major structural reinforcements to a practice facility whose collapse injured a dozen people. The Dallas Morning News reported that the consultant, Jeffrey Lawrence Galland, was engineering director of a Las Vegas company called JCI even though he had no engineering license. Galland acknowledged the newspaper’s findings, but said his background had no bearing on his ability to help clients. Galland, 42 said JCI president Scott Jacobs, who is a licensed engineer, supervised his Cowboys work. His company has teamed up extensively in recent years with Canada-based Summit Structures, which built the Cowboys facility in 2003 and oversaw last year’s reinforcements. “It is Summit’s belief that all employees who worked on this project were qualified to perform the task he or she performed” and were properly licensed, Summit president Nathan Stobbe said in a statement. Galland provided a written summary of his credentials that says he has a bachelor’s degree in physics from Eastern Washington University. The school said he pursued that degree but never graduated. The summary also says he has been working toward a master’s degree in structural engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. School records show no sign he ever attended, officials said. • The death of Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter in a terrible accident while playing at her home adds an awful chapter to the boxer’s troubled life. Exodus Tyson died after being on life support since she was injured at her Phoenix home, police said. She either slipped or put her head in the loop of a cord hanging under a treadmill’s console and was suffocated.

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