The News Review:
- Cricket: 2 greats leave the sport as Super 8s conclude
- Print edition Sports
- Stephen F. Austin gets title after Shockers’ mistake – College…
- Stanford swim coach suspended 2 months – College Sports
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
- Bertman’s new contract pays him $425K per year – College Sports
Cricket: 2 greats leave the sport as Super 8s conclude
International Herald Tribune – Apr 20, 2007
For both there is an element of being jumped before they are pushed. Lara had already said that like Pakistan's Inzamam Ulhaq he would play no more one-day internationals after the World Cup. He had though indicated that he would like to continue in five-day tests until age 40 – another two years. His change of mind announced Thursday suggests he had been warned that the West Indies authorities thought that their young players might do better without the influence of their captain and outstanding batsman.
Print edition Sports
USA Today – Apr 20, 2007
The signs (middle part shown at left) include a VT logo with a black ribbon surrounded by the other ACC schools’ logos. ther tributes:•At the Zurich Classic of New rleans PGA Tour event 32 players contracted to wear Titleist hats were given Virginia Tech hats. Golfers Brendon de Jonge and Johnson Wagner played at Tech. •Major League Soccer’s Houston Dynamo will wear uniforms with Tech’s colors in a game April 29.
Stephen F. Austin gets title after Shockers’ mistake – College…
ESPN – Apr 20, 2007
– Cheerleaders from Wichita State Universityhave lost their national title thanks to video showing anon-student taking part in their prize-winning performance. contradictedassertions by Wichita State’s cheerleading coach that thenon-student had traveled with the squad but never participated inthe competition. “We determined with certainty that the individual in questiondid perform in both [the qualifying and final-round]performances” Cheryl Adams Wichita State dean of students saidThursday. “We did contact national authorities and they respondedby pronouncing WSU’s cheer squad as disqualified.
Stanford swim coach suspended 2 months – College Sports
ESPN – Apr 20, 2007
Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby said Friday that Kenney displayeda “serious lack of judgment” when he deleted the swimmers frommedia guides that contain team statistics but the investigationdid not find any violation of NCAA rules. Kenney 64 who has coached the Cardinal’s men’s swim team for28 years apologized to Stanford students faculty alumni andathletes for “my error in judgment. “”I had no right to omit the records of any athlete on mediaguides or other publications” he said in a statement. “This willnot occur again.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: ther Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Apr 20, 2007
The Belgians were last year’s Fed Cup runner-up to Italy but will be playing this weekend on the outdoor hard courts of the Delray Beach Tennis Center without Justine Henin or Kim Clijsters. Henin is the top-ranked women’s player in the world while Clijsters is ranked fourth. Henin declined to play because she wants to remain healthy for the major tournaments including the upcoming French pen where she is the two- time defending champion. Clijsters who did not play in last year’s Fed Cup final is in her last year of competition and is limiting her schedule as well.
Bertman’s new contract pays him $425K per year – College Sports
ESPN – Apr 20, 2007
– LSU’s governing board approved a new$425000-per-year contract for athletic director Skip Bertman onFriday an approval he said might have come earlier had it not beenfor Pokey Chatman’s abrupt resignation last month. A day after the LSU Board of Supervisors’ athletic committeequickly approved the contract on Thursday the full board approvedit Friday with little discussion. The contract package first announced in February calls forBertman to remain in his current job through next spring. He wouldthen remain at LSU in an emeritus role focusing on fundraising atthe same salary until June 2010. The board delayed a vote on the contract at its March 9 meeting– two days after Chatman the women’s basketball coach abruptlyresigned amid reports that she had been accused of improperrelationships with former players.
