Bolt likely to sit out

LONDON: Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt is likely to miss this year’s Commonwealth Games in Delhi according to the Jamaica sprint star’s agent. Ricky Simms, quoted by Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper, said: “It’s now looking unlikely Usain will be going to the Commonwealth Games. His priorities have to lie elsewhere.” Simms said the timing of the Commonwealth Games, which take place in Delhi in October, would interfere with 100 and 200 metres Olympic and world champion Bolt’s pre-season ahead of the 2011 campaign. “First and foremost is his four-year plan leading up to the next Olympics, which is exactly what he did prior to Beijing in 2008.

10 millionth point

DETROIT: The Pistons’ Ben Gordon scored the 10 millionth point in NBA history on Saturday with a jump shot with 3:51 left in the first half of Detroit’s 104-94 loss to Philadelphia. Gordon came off the bench to score 20 points in what turned out to be another losing night for the Pistons. Detroit are mired in a 12-game losing streak, their worst slump since April 1994. The first NBA points were scored by New York’s Ossie Schectman on November 1, 1946, at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens.