In the last 15 years Frank Warren has watched weakly as his world champions Naseem Hamed, Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe all left his promotional help to control their profession and it now looks like Amir Khan has done the same.

Khan has decided a promotional deal with Oscar De La Hoya's company Golden Boy and is predicted to fight Hatton victim Paulie Malignaggi, and almost definitely without the World Boxing Association belt that Warren helped him win. Warren was unavailable for comment yesterday, but he spoke last week: "I said I would make him a title holder and I did. I just hope that people don't suffer amnesia."

The move means three of Britain's top four fighters are among Golden Boy. Khan joins David Haye and Hatton, leaving only Carl Froch in behalf of British control.

A purse offer for Khan's defence against Argentina's Marcos Rene Maidana was due to be accomplished in Caracas today, but that fight and the WBA light-welterweight title now look intended to be scrapped. Khan will lose the belt outside the ring if he goes further on with the Malignaggi fight.

It’s just 12 days into the New Year and past University of Colorado cross country and track & field show up Jenny Barringer has been honored for her second athlete-of-the-year as she was named the Colorado Sports Hall of prominence 2009 College Female Athlete of the Year on Tuesday.

This marks the second direct season that Barringer has been given the honor. She becomes the second person to receive the honor twice in her career, following Shelley Sheetz who won the title in 1993 and ‘95. Just last week Barringer was named the recipient of Mile High Sports Magazine’s College Athlete of the Year.

Barringer had a year to remember; she has won six NCAA records and seven CU records and was awarded several top honors in the process. In December, she won the initial USTFCCCA’s The Bowerman award, which identifies annually the most outstanding collegiate male and female track & field athlete. Barringer was also named a finalist for the USATF’s Jesse Owens Athlete of the Year and was the only collegiate athlete in the field of five entrants. In June, she was named the recipient of the Honda Sports Award for track & field and was one of five finalists for the high-status Honda Broderick Cup, which goes to the nation’s top collegiate female athlete of the year.

Canadian training coach Valerio Moscariello has been proscribed for 12 years for administering steroids.

Moscariello acknowledged that he gave steroids to Amanda Galle of Mississauga, Ont., national-level boxer who got two-year ban last April after testing positive for nandrolone.

Moscariello told the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) that he by mistake injected Galle with deca-durabolin, a steroid that he used individually.
Galle won the Canadian boxing championships last February in Edmonton, but the title was later rewarded to runner-up Alison Hunter when Galle's doping abuse was discovered in an in-competition test in Trois Rivieres, Que.

Moscariello worked as a training coach, personal trainer and nutritional specialist, but his ban prevents him from taking part in any sport at any level and in any role.

"The CCES has the conscientiousness to examine any doping action within the Canadian sport system, including athletes and their support personnel," Paul Melia, the CCES president and CEO, said in a report. "Long bans of coaches and other sport support personnel can be a successful method to get rid of such depressing influence from the system."