Sports Shorts

Nevo takes bronze in Poland swim meet

Gal Nevo won a bronze medal at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Szczecin, Poland, yesterday. Swimming in the 200-meter individual medley, Nevo shattered the Israeli mark with a finish of 1:54.87 minutes. He bested Diogo Filipe Carvalho of Portugal by 11-100ths of a second for the medal. In the 200-meter backstroke, Yakov Toumarkin finished fifth in the final while besting his own Israeli record of 1:51.55 minutes. Amit Ivri finished last of 10 in the women's 200-meter individual medley final with a time of 2:11.34 minutes, half a second off the new Israeli mark she set in the morning at 2:10.81. (Rami Hipsh )

Top teams clash in volleyball league

Maccabi Tel Aviv's volleyball team hosts Hapoel Mateh Asher today in Hadar Yosef in a battle at the top of the Premier League table. The remaining games will be held tomorrow. They include Maccabi Hod Hasharon vs. Ramat Hasharon; Hapoel Jerusalem vs. Neve Shaanan; and Elitzur Carmiel vs. Hamaapil Hadera. (Rami Hipsh )

	Shahar Peer
	Photo by: Reuters

Red Sox plan big bash for Fenway's centenary

The Boston Red Sox are planning a big party for the 100th birthday of Fenway Park. The team unveiled its plans at the ballpark yesterday. A 256-page commemorative coffee table book, hats and T-shirts, pins and pennants will be sold. The ballpark will have an open house on April 19 - the day before its 100th anniversary. The team will also post 100 commemorative plaques around the ballpark. And a new foundation will be established to help preserve Fenway's history. Fenway opened on April 20, 1912, with a game against the Yankees - who were known as the New York Highlanders back then. The Yankees will be in town again on that date next year to join in the celebrations. (AP )

Brain trauma found in ex-NFL champ

Lew Carpenter, who died last year at age 78 after more than four decades as an NFL player and coach, had an advanced stage of a degenerative brain disease increasingly found in football players and other athletes who sustain repeated blows to the head. Researchers at Boston University and the Veterans Administration found evidence of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.(AP )