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SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - The captain of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins was charged with indecent exposure after a police officer saw him running naked on a downtown street early Sunday, and a teammate was arrested for public drunkenness. Nathan Smith told the officer he acted on a bet. Officials said Smith, a center for the AHL team, was charged with misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure, open lewdness and disorderly conduct, as well as public drunkenness. He was released on $10,000 bail. Penguins forward Ryan Stone was charged with public drunkenness. "I would like to apologize to the people of Northeast Pennsylvania, my teammates, and to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and Pittsburgh Penguins organizations," Smith said in a statement. "I made an embarrassing and regrettable decision this weekend and understand I will face disciplinary action. My conduct was unacceptable and totally out of character - it will not happen again. I promise to do my best to win back your trust and support." The team said it will take disciplinary action against Smith and Stone, both of whom spent time with the Pittsburgh Penguins this season. 
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The father of New York Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain left the hospital after recovering from respiratory failure brought on by pneumonia. Harlan Chamberlain said Tuesday he was feeling stronger and thanked people for their thoughts and prayers. The elder Chamberlain collapsed at home on April 13 and was hospitalized. Joba Chamberlain left that night after the Yankees’ game against Boston to be near his father. He missed five games and rejoined the Yankees in Baltimore on April 19.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Authorities are investigating the death of a former Boston College and NFL player at an Orlando apartment building. Orange County's sheriff's office says 41-year-old Ivan Orsen Caesar Jr. was found fatally shot at the Tuscany Village Apartments early Monday. Investigators are looking for witnesses. A linebacker, Caesar was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings from Boston College in 1991. He played one season for the Vikings. Caeser later played in the Arena Football League from 1995 to 1999 for teams in Tampa, Milwaukee and Portland, Ore.
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By TIM DAHLBERG David Stern was courtside in Atlanta, taking in the game and making sure no one was flashing any signs not officially approved by the NBA. Stern did his job well because there wasn't a gangsta moment all night, unless you count the mugging Joe Johnson and the Hawks gave the Boston Celtics in the fourth quarter of a series that by all accounts was supposed to be over by now. Depending on whose side you're on, the fact that it's not either says something about the unpredictability of a league where anything can happen or the silliness of having a team that couldn't come close to winning half its games in the regular season even being allowed into the playoffs against the team with the best record in the NBA. Sure, the Celtics will likely prevail by the time it is all over, if only because home-court advantage means so much and two of the final three games will be played in Boston. The Hawks won only 12 games on the road during the regular season, so their chances of stealing one in the playoffs aren't all that good, even with the momentum on their side. Still, the worst team in the playoffs is giving Boston fits, which outside of Atlanta is a huge buzz killer for a postseason that so far hasn't lived up to the lofty expectations that most everyone had coming in. "Basketball is a strange thing," Boston's Sam Cassell said. "Strange things happen." While the Celtics are struggling with a team that wouldn't have sniffed the playoffs had it been in the West, the Lakers dominated a team that won 50 games in the regular season and had a pair of superstars in Carmelo Anthony and Allen Iverson. In doing so, they put to rest the theory that any playoff team in the Western Conference could beat any other team. That's largely because the Lakers have Bryant, who will likely finally win the MVP award this year that has always somehow eluded him. Bryant finally has a big man to complete him once again, but it was he, not Pau Gasol, who took over at the end of the game to make sure the Nuggets didn't steal one. "He just exploded at the end of the game," Anthony said. "It's something he always does." The Celtics won't have that luxury. They have at least two more games against the lowly Hawks, games they should never have had to play, and have accomplished nothing so far other than to make a long season even longer. They may still emerge from the East to play in the finals, but it no longer seems the certainty it did after the Celtics finished the regular season with a league leading 66 wins. While Bryant can carry his team seemingly whenever needed, Kevin Garnett made it past the first round of the playoffs only once in eight attempts with Minnesota. Garnett, of course, never had the supporting cast he now has with Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, but teams of destiny don't lose one first round game to the likes of the Hawks, much less two in a row. "We've got to find us real quick," Cassell said. "We've got to find our team identity, our team chemistry, we've got to find all that real quick." Boston coach Doc Rivers didn't seem all that worried about his team's ability to recover its swagger. Someone noted that the Red Sox had lost five in a row and wondered what Rivers would tell people who might be thinking of jumping off a bridge in despair over the twin losing streaks. "Don't jump," Rivers said, chuckling. Good advice, because the Celtics will be back home Wednesday night and should again look like the team that won the first two games of the series by an average of 21 points. They're so talented that Vegas oddsmakers had them a nine-point favorite on the road against Atlanta, and a blowout wouldn't be surprising. The Celtics are still likely to run the table and hold up their part of the bargain for the dream matchup in the finals against the Lakers that would send television ratings through the roof. Their ill-timed stumble aside, they're still by far the best team in the East. But so far they're making it a lot harder on themselves than they should.
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