*Chancellor Adams, the 6-year-old son of former Carolina Panthers player Rae Carruth, suffered minor injuries in a car accident Friday night when the van in which he was riding was struck by a motorist fleeing police. The boy and his grandmother, Saundra Adams, were driving on West Boulevard at Doctor Carver Road in North Carolina when the incident occurred. Each suffered minor injuries and has been released from the hospital. Chancellor's mother, Cherica Adams, was shot while driving in her car in November 1999. She died a month later, after implicating her boyfriend, Carruth, in the shooting. Several men were convicted in the case, including Carruth, who received a 19-year prison term in 2001 for conspiring to have Cherica Adams killed.
*The South Florida Sun-Sentinel is reporting on its website that Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat have reached agreement on a five-year contract extension worth $75-$85 million. Wade's agent, Henry Thomas, has reportedly said that he expects the NBA Finals MVP to sign the deal on July 12, the first day that teams are allowed to sign free agents. "We're on the same page," Thomas reportedly told the Sun-Sentinel. Fox Sports says Wade is eligible for a deal worth about $80 million; the exact value of the extension, much like the one agreed to by Carmelo Anthony with Denver and the one offered to LeBron James in Cleveland, will not be known until the salary cap for the 2007-08 season is set.
*Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor, 23, has been sued by a man who said the NFL player brandished a gun and repeatedly hit him during a fight in Miami last June. Taylor – who pleaded no contest last month to two misdemeanors in the assault case and was sentenced to 18 months probation – was sued on June 27 by Ryan Hill, who seeks $15,000 on claims he was bruised, incurred medical expenses and lost wages because of the incident.
*Ben Wallace, a longtime fixture on the Detroit Pistons, is leaving the team to join the Chicago Bulls, a person within the NBA said Monday. The four-time Defensive Player of the Year was offered a four-year contact by the Pistons worth about $50 million, which would’ve made him the highest-paid player on the team next season with a salary of $11.5 million. But Wallace told the Detroit News that the Bulls won him over. "I appreciate everything Detroit did for me and my family," he told the newspaper Monday night. "They gave me an opportunity to make a name for myself and we had an opportunity to win a championship together."
*A brief arrest warrant was issued for Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas last Tuesday after he missed a court hearing on a charge of resisting an officer without violence. Miami-Dade County Judge Samuel Slom issued the bench warrant and set a $2,000 bond after Arenas and his attorney failed to show up for the morning arraignment. According to Wizards president of basketball operations Ernie Grunfeld, the club contacted the judge on Arenas' behalf and told him the player didn't receive a written notice regarding the court date. Slom then lifted the arrest warrant, canceled the $2,000 bond and rescheduled the arraignment. A date has not been set.
*Shenay Perry, the lone American player left in Wimbledon, followed her compatriots out of the tournament over the weekend with a fourth round loss against Russia’s Elena Dementieva 6-2, 6-0. Her defeat means that it’s the first time since before World War I that there has been no American left when Wimbledon has reached its quarter-final stage. Perry, a 22-year-old Washington D.C. native, made her first appearance in the last 16 of a Grand Slam event. After the match, Perry told reporters how nervous she was to be the last representative of the U.S. at the All England Club. "It's a position I haven't been in before,” she said. “Being the last American, it is a little nerve-wracking. I think it got to me a little bit.