Climbing
CLIMBING FILM OFFERED: "Everest - The Death Zone," a documentary by climber and filmmaker David Breashers focusing on the death of eight climbers in a single day on the world's tallest mountain will be aired on KUED's Nova on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Nova will take a look at the climb and try to learn why rational people make astonishingly poor, and sometimes fatal, decisions. Breashears takes views from Base Camp (17,600 feet) through the Khumbu Icefall, up the precipitous Lhotse Face, into the Death Zone above 25,000 feet, past the high-altitude death traps of 1996.
During high-altitude ascents, oxygen dwindles to half the sea-level pressure, which causes the body systems to begin shutting down one by one. The Nova team will perform the first systematic tests on mental activity.
Baseball
FOUL BALL RESULTS IN SUIT: A foul ball that fractured the skull of a 4-year-old boy at a minor league baseball game caused him to have lasting vision and speech problems, the child's parents claim in a lawsuit. The ball fractured the skull of Matthew Samulewski, now 6, when he and his mother attended a game on June 22, 1996. Cathie Samulewski was holding her son as she stood in a concessions line, the lawsuit said.
Football
FORMER PATS OWNER DIES: Although two NFL teams failed, Billy Sullivan still thought the Boston area could support a team.
Sullivan, who died Monday at the age of 82, hooked up with the nascent AFL, a move that earned him a membership in the "Foolish Club." But when the AFL and NFL merged in 1970, Sullivan had reached his goal.
Sullivan was forced to sell the team in 1988 when he couldn't afford the growing cost of keeping it.
Basketball
WEST RETURN UNCERTAIN: A day after announcing he will seek treatment for depression and alcohol abuse, guard Doug West said he's uncertain whether he will play this season for the Vancouver Grizzlies. West, 30, acknowledged his problems on Sunday after going on a drinking binge when the Minnesota Timberwolves traded him to Vancouver for Anthony Peeler last week. Before the end of the week, West will head to a treatment center at an undisclosed location in Georgia.
Hockey
HOCKEY COACH BLASTS PLAYERS: U.S. Olympic hockey coach Ron Wilson says the players who damaged rooms in the Olympic Village should come forward and take the blame for what he called a "deplorable act."
The NHL is investigating the trashing of three apartments occupied by U.S. players during the Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. Wilson, also the coach of the Washington Capitals, said he believes only one or two players were responsible for a few broken chairs and the discharge of fire extinguishers. Damage was estimated at $3,000.
FEDOROV OFFER REJECTED: An arbitrator will have to decide whether the Carolina Hurricanes' $38 million, six-year offer sheet to center Sergei Fedorov is valid before the Detroit Red Wings have to decide whether or not to match it.
The NHL ruled Monday that the contract was not valid, "because we did not believe it was in compliance with Collective Bargaining Agreement," NHL spokesman Gary Meagher said.
Crime
GYMNAST'S STALKER ARRESTED: Olympic gold medalist Shannon Miller had little to say about the arrest of a man she told police had been stalking her since January.
Joseph Whitney Vogt, 25, a University of Oklahoma journalism student, was to be arraigned today on a complaint of stalking in Cleveland County District Court, police said.