Names In The News

NATHAN BROAD, the Australian Football League player at the center of the "Richmond photo scandal," has been handed a three-game ban by his club, to be served at the beginning of next season. Broad took "full responsibility" for sending an image of a topless woman wearing his premiership medal without her consent. He said that he was "ashamed" and "embarrassed" but passed off the decision to send "a very private picture without this young woman's consent" as a "very bad drunken" one (London GUARDIAN, 10/29). ... Former Wales int'l footballer JOHN HARTSON revealed that six top-flight managers in Scotland and England have asked him recently to "help their players tackle gambling addiction." Hartson calls himself a "recovering gambling addict." He did not "suggest that players are gambling on football," a practice that is banned by the game's authorities in the U.K. (BBC, 10/29).