Disorder in court
Basketball: Tempers ran high as struggling Dinamo Moscow lost 94-91 after two rounds of overtime at Lokomotiv Kazan - and the game ended in an on-court brawl between the two squads.
Dinamo coach Sergei Bazarevich called the scenes the worst he had seen in 30 years of Russian basketball, and insisted his team had twice been "robbed" of victory, once in normal time and once again in overtime.
He added that after the final siren his players approached the match officials to protest, only for star player Dmitry Monya to be flattened from behind by an opponent.
"Naturally after that it all exploded and a lot of people rushed into the melee," the coach told Sovietsky Sport. "As a result the police had to separate everyone."
The result, which Dinamo intend to appeal, keeps Loko top of the league with the Muscovites third bottom after losing four of their first five games.
On the slide
Hockey: Moscow's club sides returned to action after the international break - and their fans were left wishing they had stayed on holiday.
CSKA played three home games, and lost the lot - going down 3-2 to Atlant, 2-1 in a shoot-out against Severstal and 5-2 to Western Conference leaders SKA St. Petersburg.
The sequence, coupled with a pair of defeats before the break, leaves Sergei Nemchinov's side on the brink of equaling their worst run of losses in seven seasons. The 2003-4 campaign saw them lose six in a row in the closing stages as they missed out on a play-off spot.
Meanwhile Dinamo, who faced Ak Bars Kazan late on Monday, began brightly with a 3-1 win at Neftekhimik only to lose in a shoot-out at Lada Togliatti.
The cash-strapped Lada side, struggling to pay its players and waving goodbye to its overseas stars, denied the capital club the chance to close on SKA at the top of the table.
Spartak remain in mid-table after a disappointing 3-2 reverse at home to Amur Khabarovsk. The far east team got over its travel sickness to grind out a win at Sokolniki on Friday night.
The only game in Moscow this week is on Thursday evening, when Dinamo face Lokomotiv Yaroslav at Luzhniki (face off 7:30 pm). On Saturday the Blue-and-Whites have a short trip to Balashikha to play HK MVD (5 pm).
Euro Cup action
Bandy: Dinamo Moscow are in European action this week against the world's most successful team. Vasteras, of Sweden, are the opposition in the European Champions' Cup to be played over two legs on Friday and Sunday.
Dinamo travel to Sweden on Friday for the first match, before hosting the return game at the Krylatskoye Arena on Sunday, starting at 2 pm.
The Moscow side has dominated domestic bandy - a traditional Russian sport which combines elements of soccer and ice hockey - in recent years, winning the last four national championships, two of the last three world cups and the last two European Championships.
But they suffered a surprise Russian Cup semi-final loss to Dinamo Kazan last month, and face a Vasteras outfit with an even more impressive CV including 18 national titles and five world crowns.
