VanDerveer gets 1,000th win
Tara VanDerveer became just the second NCAA women’s coach to enter the 1,000 wins club, alongside the late Pat Summitt, as No. 9 Stanford beat visiting USC, 58-42, Friday night.
VanDerveer, in her 31st season at Stanford and 38th overall as a head coach with previous stops at Idaho and Ohio State, is admired throughout the basketball world for her thoughtful approach, detailed preparation and ability to adapt over the decades in the best interest of her roster any given year.
She won No. 800 against former player and thencoach Jennifer Azzi at the University of San Francisco in December 2010 and then her 900th in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, during a 2013 Thanksgiving tournament. The Cardinal is 20-3 this season. Summitt died on June 28, 2016, at the age of 64. She won 1,098 games.
WRESTLING
Iran banned the U.S. team from this month’s Freestyle World Cup in response to President Donald
Trump’s executive order forbidding visas for Iranians, the official IRNA news agency reported Friday. IRNA quoted Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman
Bahram Ghasemi as saying a special committee reviewed the case of the U.S. wrestling team and “eventually the visit by the U.S. freestyle wrestling team was opposed.” Ghasemi said the policy of the new U.S. administration left Iran no other choice but to ban the wrestlers.
The U.S. governing body for wrestling had said it would send a team to the Freestyle World Cup, one of the sport’s most prestigious international events. U.S. wrestler Jordan Burroughs, a four-time world champion, was among those scheduled to compete.
HOCKEY
Emily Clark and Abby Roque had two goals apiece and the top-ranked Wisconsin women’s team rolled to a 6-1 victory over host Bemidji State at the Sanford Center.
The Badgers became the 10th program in NCAA Division I women’s hockey history to win 500 games.
Goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens finished with 27 saves for the Badgers (25-2-1-0, 20-2-1-0 WCHA), who have won 11 straight games.
TENNIS
Jack Sock and John Isner gave the United States a sweep of the singles matches in a first-round Davis Cup tie against Switzerland in Birmingham, Ala.
Sock, the world’s 20th-ranked player, defeated No. 146 Marco Chiudinellli, 6-4, 6-3, 6-1, in the first match at Legacy Arena. Isner dropped the first set before rebounding to beat Henri Laaksonen, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (1). In Saturday’s doubles match, Sam Querrey and
Steve Johnson play Antoine Bellier and Adrien Bossel. The U.S. would secure the victory and advance to the April quarterfinals against Australia with a win.
BASEBALL
Infielder Rickie Weeks agreed to a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Rays.
The 34-year-old Weeks was the second overall pick in the 2003 amateur draft and is a .247 career hitter over parts of 13 big-league seasons with Milwaukee, Seattle and Arizona. He batted .239 with nine homers and 27 RBI in 108 games with the Diamondbacks last year.
NFL
Michael Vick, who rose to stardom with the Atlanta Falcons before he was sent to prison for running a dogfighting operation, told ESPN he is retiring.
The 36-year-old Vick, a dynamic dual threat with his speedy legs and powerful left arm, passed for 22,464 yards and 133 touchdowns during his 13 seasons with the Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers. His 6,109 career yards rushing are an NFL record by a quarterback.
He did not play this season.
SOCCER
Jordan Morris scored in the 59th minute, and the United States beat Jamaica, 1-0, in a friendly in Chattanooga, Tenn., to give Bruce Arena the first win of his second stint as national team coach.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
The game between No. 10 North Carolina and No. 18 Notre Dame scheduled for Saturday in Chapel Hill, N.C., has been postponed a day and moved to Greensboro due to a water shortage.
The game — originally scheduled for 5 p.m. (Central) Saturday at the Smith Center — will be played at noon Sunday at the Greensboro Coliseum.
The postponement comes after the water system supplying the Chapel Hill campus and surrounding area instructed its 20,000 customers not to drink or use the water due to critically low supplies, brought on by a water-main break and the shutdown of a treatment plant.