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Coyotes lose Jokinen to shoulder injury

PHOENIX, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A left shoulder injury will cause Phoenix Coyotes center Olli Jokinen to miss at least two weeks, ending his streak of 397 consecutive games played.

The 11-year veteran remaining in the first period of Wednesday's 3-2 win against Columbus when he was checked into the boards by Blue Jackets defenseman Marc Methot.

The 215-pounder, a first-round draft pick by Los Angeles in 1997, last missed a game during the 2002-03 season while with the Florida Panthers.

"This gives other guys opportunities to step up," Coach Wayne Gretzky said after Thursday's practice. "At the end of the day, it could be a good thing for this hockey club. We're definitely going to miss what he brings to the team, but this gives him a few weeks to rest and regroup, and when he comes back he'll be fresher."

Jokinen is the Coyotes' scoring leader with 18 points (seven goals and 11 assists) in 21 games.

MLB to reveal drug-use numbers

NEW YORK, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Major league baseball will release the number of players who had first-time positive tests for amphetamines in 2008 next year, The New York Times reported.

The newspaper said Thursday the move was in line with the 2007 Mitchell report on performance-enhancing drugs, which advocated the need to make more data and test results public.

"We believed that adding the yearly reports would allow us to get a better idea of how the program is functioning," Rob Manfred, baseball's executive vice president for labor relations, told the newspaper.

The results and other data will be released in January.

The Times report said baseball started testing for amphetamines in 2006, but the number of first-time positive results for 2006 and 2007 will not be revealed.

Manfred would not tell the Times the number of first-time positives in 2008 compared with those in 2006 and 2007.

Olympic parents arrested in alleged scam

LONDON, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Five people, including the parents of swimming gold medalist Rebecca Adlington, have been arrested in a Beijing Olympics ticket scam, British authorities say.

The suspects were apprehended at the Serious Fraud Office in London in the investigation of Xclusive Tickets, which allegedly sold thousands of tickets that never materialized, the Telegraph said.

Among those arrested were Kay and Steve Adlington, whose daughter Rebecca won gold medals in the 400 and 800 swimming events in Beijing, the newspaper said. They were released on bail.

Customers from more than 60 countries reportedly bought tickets for the Beijing Games from the company, which went into liquidation in August. It also failed to deliver passes to several other events, officials said.

Report: F1 chief wants new scoring system

LONDON, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Bernie Ecclestone, the head of Formula One, plans to introduce a revamped scoring system next season, the BBC reported.

Ecclestone wants gold, silver and bronze medals given to the top three finishers.

In the 2008 season, England's Lewis Hamilton beat Brazil's Felipe Massa, 98 points to 97.

"It's going to happen," Ecclestone told the BBC earlier this week. "The whole reason for this is I am fed up with people talking about there being no overtaking. Instead of scoring points for the top eight positions, as is the case now, it would see gold, silver and bronze medals being awarded. It's just not on that someone can win the championship without winning a race."

Hamilton earned the 2008 Formula One World Championship with a fifth-place finish at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Nov. 2, becoming the youngest driver to win a World Championship in F1 history.

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