Stanford switches to Chryst at QB
Stanford junior Keller Chryst will make his first collegiate start at quarterback at Arizona on Saturday, Coach David Shaw said.
He’ll replace senior Ryan Burns, after the Cardinal went 4-3 (2-3 Pac-12) in his seven starts. Burns completed nearly 63% of his passes for 1,058 yards and five touchdowns. He also threw seven interceptions.
Burns led the Cardinal to wins over Kansas State, USC and UCLA to open the season but Stanford has struggled since, averaging 11 points in its last four games, punctuated by Saturday’s 10-5 loss to Colorado.
Stanford ranks last in the Pac-12 in scoring (17.0) and total offense (299.1). The offense has scored 10 touchdowns all year.
Carlos Alberto Torres, the captain of Brazil’s World Cup-winning team in 1970 and scorer of one of the sport’s most memorable goals, died Tuesday. He was 72 and died after a heart attack at his home in Rio de Janeiro.
One of the best defenders of his generation, Carlos Alberto was innovative in playing box-to-box soccer. That style of play allowed him to score his famous goal at the 1970 World Cup, blasting in a pass from Pele in the 4-1 win against Italy in the final. That goal, scored after a touch by almost every Brazilian on the pitch, is seen as the pinnacle of a team that was so dominant that it made their yellow shirts into a global brand.
NHL representatives are in South Korea to inspect Olympic facilities as the league mulls a decision on whether to let its players appear in the Olympics in Pyeongchang.
Pyeongchang ’s organizing committee said the NHL delegation led by Lynn White, vice president of international strategy, and facilities operation manager Dan Craig will make inspections Thursday and Friday of facilities in Gangneung, a city near Pyeongchang that will host the ice hockey tournament during the 2018 Winter Games.
Hockey is one of the most popular sports at the Winter Games. The International Olympic Committee’s negotiations with the NHL over having the league’s players competing in Pyeongchang have stalled over the IOC’s decision not to pay for NHL players’ travel and insurance as it has in the past. NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly recently told the Associated Press he felt “negative” about the chances the league’s players will compete in Pyeongchang.
The U.S. Golf Assn. is continuing its plan to hold the 2017 U.S. Women’s Open at a New Jersey course owned by Donald Trump. The USGA had no comment on a letter sent to it by three Democratic U.S. senators asked that the event be moved away from Trump National in Bedminster.
Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania made the request in a letter sent Monday, asking USGA Executive Director Mike Davis to consider suspending further events at properties owned by the Republican presidential candidate because of what they describe as a “pattern of degrading and dehumanizing women” over decades.
The Trump Organization had no comment.