Jeter joins Gophers staff
Minnesota hired former UW-Milwaukee coach Rob Jeter as an assistant.
Coach Richard Pitino announced Tuesday that Jeter will replace Kimani Young, who left for Connecticut to be an assistant on the staff of new coach Dan Hurley.
Jeter was an assistant at UNLV the last two years. He was in charge at Milwaukee for 11 seasons, taking the Panthers to the NCAA Tournament twice and winning 20-plus games five times.
Jeter was an assistant at Wisconsin for Bo Ryan for four years before that. He played for Ryan at UWPlatteville and won the 1991 NCAA Division III title there.
The Gophers finished 15-17 this season. They’ll return only five scholarship players who saw action in 2017-’18.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Kansas and North Carolina State are the latest schools to be swept up in a bribery scandal involving college basketball.
A rewritten federal indictment released Tuesday in New York alleges that an Adidas officials paid parents of athletes willing to commit to the schools.
Prosecutors said an Adidas representative agreed to pay $90,000 to the family of a Kansas recruit and $40,000 to a recruit at North Carolina State. They added that the money helped secure the players’ commitments to play college basketball at the schools and ensured the North Carolina State recruit signed an Adidas sponsorship deal when he entered the NBA. He entered the draft last June.
In the Kansas case, the student-athlete made a surprise announcement last August to attend the school.
TRACK AND FIELD
Hungarian hammer thrower Krisztian Pars, the 2012 Olympic champion, has been banned until July 2019 because of a doping violation.
According to the Hungarian Athletics Federation, a non-performance-enhancing substance was detected in a urine sample taken Jan. 13 in his home city of Szombathely.
The 36-year-old Pars, also a two-time European champion, has participated in four Olympic Games.
Commonwealth Games: Caster Semenya smashed the meet record to win the 1,500 meters in just over four minutes and set herself up for a middle-distance double on the Gold Coast.
The two-time Olympic 800-meter champion crossed in 4:00.71, taking more than four seconds off the mark set by Hellen Obiri in Glasgow four years ago.
MISCELLANEOUS
All six people aboard a small plane were killed when it crashed on a golf course in a Phoenix suburb shortly after taking off from a nearby airport, police said.
The plane went down on the TPC Scottsdale Champions Golf Course. That course is the sister to the Stadium Course where the Waste Management Phoenix Open is held each February.