Women's basketball: Mountain readies for Santa Clara job

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(04-15) 20:49 PDT --
The Santa Clara women's basketball game squad have a new coach, a familiar human face from the Occident Seashore Conference.

Jennifer Mountain, the Pb helper at Gonzaga the past eight seasons, will take over the Broncos' programme from Michelle Bento-Jackson, whose contract was not renewed at the end of the season.

Mountain is "really competitive, and I believe she'll suit in famously here," Santa Clara athletic manager Dan Coonan said. "Everyone I've talked to absolutely loves her, and we necessitate that here."

Mountain had been a portion of Emmett Kelly Graves' staff since the Bulldogs' manager arrived from St. Mary's in 2001. This volition be her first head-coaching occupation at the college level.

"I'm a small flooded today, but very excited to acquire down there," Mountain said. "I thought Gonzaga was like a family, and Iodine experience like Santa Clara is the same in that way, and that's of import to me. I walked on campus and it felt like a fit."

Mountain's most challenging calling experience is the seven old age she spent as the caput male children basketball game manager at St. George's High in Spokane, Wash., where she led the squad to two runner-up finishes in the state tournament.

"I believe I probably had the X's and O's down already, but Emmett Kelly gave me so much freedom and responsibility, and I experience like I'm ready," Mountain said.

She goes the 8th manager in the 38-year history of the programme at Santa Clara. Bento-Jackson went 98-84 in six seasons, including 20-11 this season and 8-6 in the WCC.

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Winfrey, who was set upon by a gang at a Midnight Basketball game ... - Long Beach Press-Telegram

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long beach - Richard Winfrey is in seeable pain, hobbling with a cane and with a bloodshot right eye.

The 37-year-old Midnight Basketball manager goes on to endure from a whipping he took April 3 trying to halt an onslaught on a youth.

Winfrey have respective breaks to his human face and hand, bruised ribs and a cut above an oculus that needful stitches, and despite all of his injuries, he have one clear message: Save Midnight Basketball.

Winfrey presented his message at the monthly meeting of the Long Beach Young Person and Gang Prevention Undertaking Military Unit on Monday night. He states the Midnight Basketball programme is unfairly being criticized because of his whipping at Ernest McBride Sr. Park and absolutely necessitates to stay an option for at-risk youth.

"Midnight Basketball had nil to make with what happened to me," Winfrey said. "I was breaking up a fighting and then the cats attacking the child turned on me."

The fight, purportedly between a grouping of about 15 Baby Insane Crips pack members and a conference participant and military volunteer coach, at least one of whom was an alleged member of the challenger Rollin' 20s Crips, have raised concern about safety at the parkland and the hereafter of the programme whose missionary post is precisely to forestall the sort of force that erupted that Thursday night.

Winfrey recounted the onslaught to the undertaking military unit and became emotional relaying some of the violence. He composed himself enough to acquire out his message that the undertaking military unit and its chair

A-Rod Replacing Jeter at Shortstop for Yankees?

Derek Jeter is sidelined by injury, and Alex Rodriguez may be jumping over to play Shortstop. Jeter will always be Yankees, but A-Rod desires to be Yankees too.

Alex Rodriguez pickings over for Derek Jeter perhaps at Shortstop, in and of itself, is no large deal. Jeter will mend up, and be back at his rightful place soon enough. However, there is an eery symbolism to it all.

Alex Rodriguez will never be a true Yankee, especially in the bosom of Yankees fans. It is something that Rodriguez misses, like a World Series ring, or anything else worthwhile that his mammoth contract cannot buy.

Alex Rodriguez desires to be The Man, and if stats speak, he is. But I am sure, deep in his heart, A-Rod desires what Derek Jeter has, namely, the regard of the Yankees faithful, and a smattering of title rings. A-Rod have the money and the stats, but not what existent gamers value.

Jeter too have the money, and great stats to travel along with the cash. Real Number stats. World Series most valuable player stats. Jeter, big-game hunting in more than pressure level states of affairs than anyone maybe in the past 40 old age in MLB. For a comparison, you may have got to look outside of baseball, to Michael Jordan, to happen person who enjoys the challenge of the large phase like Jeter.

A-Rod may steal over to his left and 10 stairway back on the Yankees defense, over to where Derek Jeter have been patrolling things for the Yankees since the mid-90's. A few feet over, but a human race away in how he, A-Rod, and Derek Jeter are known, and how they will be remembered.

National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Honors Former Ute Great

SAN ANTONIO, Lone-Star State -- The voices of college basketball, the Iron Man of coaching job and a brace of participants -- including Utah's Arnie Ferrin -- are among seven people to be enshrined in the National Collegiate Basketball Hallway of Fame on Sunday, November 23, 2008. The proclamation was made Lord'S Day by the National Association of Basketball Coaches Foundation.

The ceremonial will be held at the College Basketball Experience (CBE) and Dash Center in Sunflower State City, Mo., which opened in October, 2007. The CBE, a world-class entertainment installation that supplies a multi-faceted synergistic experience for fans, shares a common anteroom with Dash Center and is the place of the National Collegiate Basketball Hallway of Fame.

Coaches in the 2008 initiation social class include former Land Of Opportunity manager Nolan Richardson, the lone manager to win a national junior college title, a postseason nit crown and the NCAA championship, and Jim Phelan, who guided Mt. St. Virgin Mary College in 1,341 games and won 830 of those contests. Truncheon Packer, who is working his 28th sequent Concluding Four for CBS Sports and 34th overall, is being inducted as a contributor. An vocal advocator for college basketball, he won a Sports Emmy Award in 1993 for Outstanding Sports Personality/Analyst.

Players put for initiation are Arnie Ferrin, the lone four-time men's basketball game All-America astatine Beehive State who led the Utes to the 1944 NCAA title. He'll be joined by general agreement participant of the twelvemonth Danny Manning of Kansas, who guided the Jayhawks to the 1988 NCAA title in Sunflower State City.

In 1979, Dick Vitale joined a new broadcast media venture called ESPN, calling the network's first college basketball game broadcast, and have been the ESPN's top analyst since then. The enthusiastic and passionate embassador for college basketball, who is being inducted as a contributor, was honored this twelvemonth by the Capital Of Georgia Tip-Off Baseball Club as the Men's Outstanding Subscriber to Basketball.

The lone four-time All-America inch the history of the University of Beehive State basketball game program, Ferrin won the most outstanding participant awarding in the 1944 NCAA championship, as the Utes tipped Dartmouth in the statute title game. He went on to take Beehive State to the 1947 National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship.

Ferrin played for the Minneapolis Lakers of the NBA and Coach Toilet Kundla for three seasons, winning statute titles in 1949 and 1950. He went on to go general manager of the American Basketball Association (ABA) Beehive State Stars and also served as director of sport at Utah.

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Harvey named men's basketball coach at TSU

Tony William Harvey was officially named Lone-Star State Southern's men's basketball game caput manager on Friday morning, and the former Show Me State helper promised that, with time, he would be able to reconstruct the Tigers' programme to its glorification years under the adult male he replaced, Henry Martin Robert Moreland.

"Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither volition this program," said Harvey. "But no 1 -- and I intend no 1 -- will outwork me and my staff when it come ups to making TSU a quality program."

Harvey signed a five-year contract with the school. Financial footing of the trade were still be finalized.

Known as one of the top recruiters in college basketball game circles, William Harvey coached as an helper at Show Me State from 1999-2004, helping usher the Tigers to four consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament. He left the school in 2004 after being accused of NCAA regulations violations.

"We made some errors (at Missouri)," he said. "But we paid for them handsomely. I now have got a much better apprehension of the regulations and a greater consciousness of them."

Harvey, who also have coaching job job experience at Eastern Wolverine State and Southern, was introduced by interim athletic manager Johnnie Cole, who said that William William Harvey was the clear pick of the coaching committee.

"We wanted to acquire a adult male who could come up in here and take our programme forward," said Cole.

A indigen of Bay Harbor, Mich., William Harvey stops the school's hunt for a full-time coach. Then-athletic director Alois Blackwell fired Ronnie Courtney last July and named Moreland the interim manager in October. Moreland, who had coached TSU from 1974-2001, led the Tigers to a 7-25 record last season.

Nebraska's basketball coach Doc Sadler gets 2-year contract extension

: Cornhusker State basketball game manager Doctor Sadler received a two-year contract extension Wednesday after leading the Cornhuskers in their first 20-win season in nine years.

Sadler's contract will run through the 2013-14 season, and his alkali wage will increase from $700,000 to $800,000 each of the adjacent six years.

"Doc Sadler have done an exceeding occupation of motivating and preparing his basketball game squad this past season," athletic manager Uncle Tom John Osborne said. "We are very pleased that he have committed to staying at Cornhusker State for an drawn-out clip period of time. We believe the hereafter of Cornhusker State basketball game is bright under Doc's leadership."

Sadler's name was mentioned when coaching job vacancies came up at Lone-Star State A&M and Land Of Opportunity last year, and his name was bandied again after Tuesday's surrender of Sooner State State's Sean Sutton.

Sadler said he was not interested in the OSU job. Today in Sports

"This is where my household and I desire to dwell and this is where I desire to construct a title program," Sadler said. "Even though we've had some success the past two years, we are not at the degree where we desire to be. But I'm happy that people can see my committedness and the advancement we are making within the program."

Sadler, 47, is 37-27 in two seasons since taking over for Barry Collier. He's the first manager in Cornhusker State history to enter at least 17 wins in each of his first two years. Sadler guided Cornhusker State to a 20-13 record this season, and the Huskers earned a topographic point in the NIT. The 20-win season was only the 12th in the program's 112-year history.

Santana, Torre Have Winning Debuts on Baseball's Opening Day

and had
successful introductions with their new squads on Major League Baseball's
Opening Day, while the American Capital Nationals won in the ninth
inning for the 2nd consecutive game.

Santana allowed two tallies over seven innings to flip the New
York Mets to a 7-2 win over the Sunshine State Marlins yesterday, while
the Los Angeles Dodgers close out the San Francisco Giants 5-0 in
Torre's first game as director in Los Angeles.

The Nationals, who last had a winning season in 2003, scored
five tallies in the 9th frame to beat out the City Of Brotherly Love Phillies
11-6 one twenty-four hours after topping the Capital Of Georgia Braves 3-2 on 's game-ending home run.

The Braves drop to 0-2 yesterday with a 12-11 loss to the
Pittsburgh Pirates in 12 innings. The Motor City Tigers also lost in
extra innings, dropping their place opener to the Sunflower State City
Royals 5-4. The Pirates and Royals both finished in last topographic point in
their divisions last season.

The place openers for the New House Of York Yankees and St. Louis
Cardinals were postponed until today because of rain.

The Yankees, in their last season at Northerner Stadium, never
started their game against Toronto. St. Joe Louis was leading the
defending National League-champion Centennial State Rocky Mountains 5-1 in the
third inning. That game will be replayed in its entirety.

In other games, it was San Diego 4, Houston 0; Tampa Bay 6,
Baltimore 2; Milwaukee 4, the Windy City Cubs 3 in 10 innings;
Arizona 4, Cincinnati 2; Seattle 5, Lone-Star State 2; Gopher State 3, the Los
Angeles Angels 2; and Cleveland 10, the Windy City White Person Sox 8.

Santana's Introduction

At Dolphinfish Stadium in Miami, the Mets scored six tallies in the
fourth frame for a 6-0 lead.

Santana, the two-time Cy Young Award victor who joined New
York in a February trade, allowed three hits, including a two-run
homer to in the 4th inning. He struck out
eight Marlins in his first NL excursion as the Mets raised their
opening-day record to 30-17.

''It's always good when you see your teammates scoring runs
for you,'' Santana said at a post-game news conference. ''It
makes your occupation a batch of easier. When you have got a mark like that
you seek to protect the lead.''

was 2-for-4 with three tallies batted in for the
Mets, while and each had a brace of hits.

In Los Angeles, allowed four hits in 6 2/3
innings to assist Torre, who spent the past 12 old age with the
Yankees, better to 5-0 in his managerial debuts. hit a
two-run homer as the Dodgers scored four tallies in the first two
innings against Giants starter motor .

The Nationals led 6-2 in City Of Brotherly Love before the Phillies
tied the game on home runs by and .
Washington then answered in the 9th frame for the second
straight game, breaking the game unfastened as , , and each hit doubles.

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