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Sports briefs for May 28, 2013
By Wire Service Reports on May 28, 2013, at 5:18 p.m.
Hawks name Budenholzer head coach San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Mike Budenholzer has been named head coach of the Atlanta Hawks. President of basketball operations and general manager Danny Ferry made the hire official Tuesday afternoon. “We are thrilled to have Mike as the next coach of the Atlanta Hawks. ...
Olympic gold medalist killed when Swedish boat capsizes on San Francisco Bay
By Julia Prodis Sulek and David Debolt, San Jose Mercury News on May 09, 2013, at 9:01 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — A two-time sailing gold medalist from Britain has been identified as the crewman who died Thursday afternoon when Sweden’s Artemis Racing catamaran capsized during an America’s Cup practice run on San Francisco Bay. Andrew “Bart” Simpson was trapped underneath the boat and died despite attempts to ...
Sports briefs for April 24, 2013
By Wire Service Reports on April 24, 2013, at 6:18 p.m.
Cowboys Stadium gets first college title game Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will be the site of the first College Football Playoff championship game in 2015, according to multiple reports Wednesday. An official announcement is expected during a meeting of BCS conference commissioners in Pasadena, Calif., where a formal vote ...
Pistorius family denies ‘Blade Runner’ back in training
Oscar Pistorius’s family issued a statement on Thursday denying the Olympic and Paralympic “Blade Runner” was back in training for the first time since he was charged with murdering his girlfriend. South African newspapers had published a grainy photograph, reportedly taken by a visiting schoolgirl, of the double amputee in ...
Decision to cut wrestling from Olympics shocks South Berwick-native wrestler
By John Doyle, Foster's Daily Democrat on March 24, 2013, at 11:45 a.m.
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — Deanna Rix Betterman was planning on retiring from wrestling after the 2016 Olympics. But that doesn’t make the International Olympic Committee’s recent decision to drop the sport (effective in 2020) any easier to handle. “I was shocked,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it. It’s one of ...
Sports briefs for Feb. 26, 2013
By BDN Staff and Wire Reports on Feb. 26, 2013, at 7:40 p.m.
UMFK women to play in USCAA national tourney Wednesday UNIONTOWN, Pa. — The University of Maine-Fort Kent women’s basketball team will play in its first-ever United States Collegiate Athletic Association national tourney when the eighth-seeded Bengals take on top-seeded Daemen College at 1 p.m. Wednesday. UMFK and Daemen met twice ...
Sports briefs for Feb. 21, 2013
By Wire Service Reports on Feb. 21, 2013, at 6:57 p.m.
Celtics acquire Crawford from Wizards for Barbosa The Boston Celtics acquired guard Jordan Crawford from the Washington Wizards for Leandro Barbosa on Thursday, according to an ESPN.com report. Crawford will slide into a bench role vacated by Barbosa, who will miss the rest of the 2012-13 season with a torn ...
‘Blade Runner’ Oscar Pistorius sobs during court appearance on murder charge
By David Dolan, Reuters on Feb. 15, 2013, at 10:32 a.m.
PRETORIA — South African “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee who became one of the biggest names in world athletics, broke down in tears on Friday after he was charged in court with shooting dead his girlfriend in his Pretoria home. The 26-year-old Olympic and Paralympic superstar stood with ...
Olympian Pistorius in court Friday after girlfriend killed in his house
By Andres R. Martinez and Franz Wild, Bloomberg on Feb. 14, 2013, at 6:16 a.m.
JOHANNESBURG — South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius will appear in a Pretoria court Friday after police said a 30-year-old woman was shot dead in his house, according to prosecutors and police. Police have opened a murder case against a 26-year-old man and will oppose bail, Denise Beukes, a police ...
John Thomas, US high jumper who medaled in two Olympics, dies at 71
By Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times on Jan. 25, 2013, at 6:22 p.m.
He was the overwhelming favorite in his event, so much so that U.S. sportswriters covering the 1960 Summer Olympics boasted that if Americans won just one gold medal over the rival Soviet Union at that year’s Games, it would be his. A skinny 19-year-old from Boston, John Thomas had been ...
Gymnast Gabby Douglas named AP female athlete of the year
The Associated Press on Dec. 21, 2012, at 8:19 p.m.
When Gabby Douglas allowed herself to dream of being the Olympic champion, she imagined having a nice little dinner with family and friends to celebrate. Maybe she’d make an appearance here and there. “I didn’t think it was going to be crazy,” Douglas said, laughing. “I love it. But I ...
Sports briefs, Nov. 19, 2012
College football’s winningest coach retires MINNEAPOLIS — John Gagliardi put sleepy little Collegeville, Minn., on the national college football map with a style all his own. After 60 years at Division III St. John’s, four national titles and more victories than any coach in NCAA history, Gagliardi is calling it ...
Making decision of college, not cash, fine with Franklin
By Dave Campbell, The Associated Press on Nov. 09, 2012, at 7:17 p.m.
MINNEAPOLIS — Missy Franklin is content to wait for the endorsement money that’s bound to come her way after those five medals at the London Olympics. She’s experienced plenty of fame, success and fun through her performances in the pool without the financial security of corporate sponsorships. And after all, ...
Olympic great Phelps produces stroke of genius
By Reuters, staff on Oct. 05, 2012, at 11:06 p.m.
ST ANDREWS, Scotland — Olympic great Michael Phelps is known for the excellence of his swimming strokes but will now gain recognition for his putting stroke after sinking a 150-foot effort at the Dunhill Links pro-am. The American’s drive at the downhill, 337-yard par-four sixth hole at Kingsbarns, one of ...
Rio Olympic employees accused of stealing London documents
By Stephen Wilson, The Associated Press on Sept. 21, 2012, at 6:28 p.m.
LONDON — In an embarrassing episode for the host of the next Summer Olympics, 10 employees of Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 committee have been fired after being caught stealing computer files from British organizers during the London Games. British and Brazilian organizers said Friday that the Rio employees, working alongside ...
Oscar Pistorius moves to diffuse Paralympics blades row after initial complaints
By Rob Harris, The Associated Press on Sept. 03, 2012, at 6:48 p.m.
LONDON — After years as the poster boy of the Paralympics, a chastened Oscar Pistorius moved Monday to defuse the row that threatens to blemish the clean-cut image he forged during a protracted struggle for acceptance within sport. Throughout numerous legal fights to be allowed to compete alongside able-bodied rivals, ...
Seth Wescott takes spin around Maine in US Air Force Thunderbird
BRUNSWICK, Maine — Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Seth Wescott stood in the cockpit of a U.S. Air Force Thunderbird jet Thursday morning and started to descend to the tarmac — then climbed back in and, with his smartphone, took a quick photo of the dashboard controls. “It was awesome,” Wescott ...
Poland Spring signs sponsorship deal with gold-medal gymnast
By Associated Press on Aug. 22, 2012, at 2:59 p.m.
PORTLAND, Maine — Poland Spring has signed gold-medal gymnast Aly Raisman to her first major endorsement deal since returning from the London Olympics. Raisman, a native of Needham, Mass., this week signed a one-year deal to endorse Poland Spring water. The 18-year-old Raisman, who won two gold medals and a ...
MMA names Graves its volleyball, softball coach
BDN staff and wire reports on Aug. 16, 2012, at 7:51 p.m.
CASTINE — Penny Graves has been named head coach of the Maine Maritime Academy volleyball and softball teams, MMA Interim Athletic Director Steve Peed announced in a press release Thursday. Graves brings a combined 16 years of head coaching experience in the two sports on the NCAA Division II and ...
Belarus shot putter stripped of Olympic gold
By Stephen Wilson, The Associated Press on Aug. 13, 2012, at 7:27 p.m.
LONDON — Just hours after the close of the Olympics, a female shot putter from Belarus was stripped of her gold Monday in the first case of an athlete losing a medal for doping at the London Games. With the disqualification of Nadzeya Ostapchuk, the gold medal was awarded to ...
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