Soccer: Jewels to pay back taxes

Italian media reports say authorities are planning to auction off diamond earrings seized from Diego Maradona as part-payment of the former Napoli star's unpaid tax bill.

The earrings were confiscated by tax authorities last year while Maradona was in an Alpine resort in northern Italy.

The Bolzano tax police in charge of the operation at the time put their value at €4000 ($7821).