Probation violation gets Nowitzki's ex 5 years

A former girlfriend of Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for violating probation. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Cristal Taylor admitted in court on Monday that she failed to check in with her probation officer in a 12-year-old forgery and theft case. She also acknowledged being arrested twice in Texas in 2000 for misdemeanors. The 38-year-old St. Louis-area native has said she planned to marry Nowitzki and was pregnant with his child.