Sports in Brief: Cleveland triumphs, will play Soul next

The Cleveland Gladiators earned a matchup with the Soul in the Arena League's National Conference championship with a 73-70 win over the Georgia Force last night in Atlanta. The Gladiators will meet the Soul at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Wachovia Center. The top-seeded Soul advanced to the conference championship with a 49-48 win over the New York Dragons on Saturday.

A California man said Pro Bowl tight end  Tony Gonzalez  of the Kansas City Chiefs kept him from choking to death. "Tony saved my life. There's no doubt,"  Ken Hunter,  a shipping company manager, told the Associated Press in a phone interview from Huntington Beach, Calif. "Tony came up behind me and gave me the Heimlich maneuver." Gonzalez, a nine-time Pro Bowl selection, was having dinner at Capone's restaurant in Huntington Beach on Thursday night. Hunter, 45, was dining with his girlfriend at the next table when suddenly a ...