Sports Briefs: Browns receiver Stallworth charged with manslaughter

MIAMI -- Wide receiver Donte Stallworth of the Cleveland Browns was charged yesterday with killing a pedestrian last month while driving drunk in Miami.

An arrest warrant charging Stallworth, 28, with DUI manslaughter was filed in the accident that killed Mario Reyes, 59, on March 14. If convicted, Stallworth would face a maximum 15-year prison sentence.

Stallworth's blood-alcohol level after the crash was .126, well above Florida's limit of .08, according to results of a blood test. Stallworth will also be charged with DUI, which carries a possible six-month sentence plus fines and community service for first offenders.

Stallworth, who is expected to surrender in court today, released a statement last month saying he was "grief stricken" over the accident, which happened just after 7 a.m. Prosecutors said they will ask that he be released on $200,000 bail.

An additional police affidavit filed yesterday said that on the morning of the crash, Stallworth was drinking at a club in the posh Fountainebleau hotel on South Beach. He left to go to a nearby home and then headed out to the busy MacArthur Causeway, where Reyes was hit as he was trying to catch a bus after work.

Stallworth signed a seven-year, $35 million contract with the Browns before last season but was injured much of the year.

More football

■ Clemson is paying its football staff more than $1.8 million next season, including $375,000 for Kevin Steele, the new defensive coordinator.

The school's athletics department released details of the assistant coaches' contracts this week.

Steele, Coach Dabo Swinney's choice to head the Clemson defense, received a three-year contract. Steele was Alabama's defensive leader last season.

■ Receiver Isaac Bruce is postponing retirement for another season with the San Francisco 49ers.

Bruce, the second-leading receiver in NFL history with 14,944 yards, told Coach Mike Singletary yesterday of his decision to return for his 16th NFL season. Bruce missed a minicamp last month while contemplating retirement.

Bruce led San Francisco with 61 catches for 835 yards and seven touchdowns last season, his first with the 49ers after 14 seasons with the St. Louis Rams.

■ Robert Powell, the Dallas police officer who detained running back Ryan Moats in a hospital parking lot while Moats' mother-in-law was dying inside, resigned yesterday.

Powell stopped Moats' SUV in the Plano, Texas, parking lot after the vehicle rolled through a red light. Moats' wife, Tamishia, and other relatives were also in the car. Powell drew his gun and threatened Moats, whose mother-in-law died while Powell was ticketing and lecturing him. Powell later issued an apology, which Moats accepted.

■ The attorney for a man who pleaded guilty in the killing of Sean Taylor of the Washington Redskins said his client now wants out of the deal.

Michael Hornung, the attorney for Venjah Hunte, 21, said his client plans to withdraw his guilty plea to second-degree murder and armed burglary of an occupied dwelling. Under the May plea agreement, Hunte would have served 29 years in prison in exchange for cooperating with prosecutors.

Taylor was fatally shot in November 2007 in a botched robbery at his home outside Miami. Five people have been charged in the killing.

■ A judge in Jacksonville, Fla., has delayed the trial of a man charged with attempted murder in the September shooting of Richard Collier, a former offensive lineman for the Jaguars. Circuit Judge Mallory D. Cooper scheduled a pretrial hearing for April 21 after the defendant, Tyrone Hartsfield, signed a waiver of his right to a speedy trial.

The trial had been scheduled to start April 13, and a new start date hasn't been set.

Hartsfield is charged with shooting Collier 14 times, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down and forcing the amputation of his left leg.

■ Backup linebacker Kijuan Dabney of Connecticut has been charged with breach of peace after a fight at the school's student union.

According to campus police, Dabney was arrested at about 12:25 a.m. Sunday, and is scheduled to appear in court on April 7.

Dabney played in six games as a sophomore last season, mostly on special teams, recording two tackles. He had five tackles as a freshman.

■ Paul Davis, Mississippi State's football coach from 1962 to 1966, died Tuesday in Auburn, Ala., according to a hospice spokeswoman and a funeral-home officials He was 87.

Davis, a native of Knoxville, Tenn., played at Ole Miss but spent more than 20 years of his career as an assistant at Auburn, working under Shug Jordan, Doug Barfield and Pat Dye. In 1963, Davis' Mississippi State team went 7-2-2 and battled N.C. State and frigid weather to win the Liberty Bowl in Philadelphia.

Soccer

■ Chivas USA is taking a page from the Los Angeles Dodgers and offering fans all-you-can-eat tickets.

The $25 ticket includes all the hot dogs, nachos, popcorn and soda that a fan can consume at 12 games at Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., this season, beginning Sunday against Columbus.

■ Fans are bidding for tickets to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, with FIFA receiving more than 1.6 million requests from people in 205 countries. The requests were made in the first phase of online sales, and tickets will be allocated in a lottery April 15.

South Africans accounted for about 30 percent of the 1,635,136 requests for seats. They will pay $15 for the cheapest seats at group stage matches. Fans from the United States had the most applications from abroad. The international price starts at $80 for a seat at a group-stage match.

Volleyball

■ Long Beach State's Alan Knipe is the new coach of the gold medal-winning U.S. men's volleyball team. He will take a leave of absence from Long Beach State to coach the team through the 2012 London Olympics.

Knipe, 40, replaces Hugh McCutcheon, coach of the men's team that defeated Brazil for the gold medal in Beijing. McCutcheon took over the women's national team after coach Jenny Lang Ping stepped down.