Cancer can’t stop runner
Cancer couldn’t stop Mary Shertenlieb, so she wasn’t about to let rain, wind or cold slow her.
Shertenlieb crossed the Boston Marathon finish line at 12:18 a.m. Tuesday, about 13 hours after she started, to become 2018’s last finisher.
The leukemia survivor was at mile 15 on Monday when she went to a medical tent, shivering, with purple lips, thinking she had hypothermia.
She called her husband, Rich, and he suggested she come home, take a hot shower, put on dry clothes, then restart the run.
The couple later went back to the spot she left off and finished together, holding hands.
She raised about $33,000 for cancer research.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Junior-college forward Bobby Arthur-Williams signed a national letter of intent with UW-Milwaukee on Tuesday, as the Panthers continue to address what has been an undermanned and undersized frontcourt the last several years.
The 6-foot-7 Arthur-Williams averaged 17.7 points, 10.7 rebounds and four assists per game last season at Redlands Community College, a Division I junior college located in El Reno, Okla.
A native of Potomac, Md., Arthur-Williams also shot 52% from the field and 72% from the freethrow line. Twice he scored 35 points in a game, and he pulled down 18 rebounds in another.
Nebraska rewards Miles: Nebraska coach Tim Miles was given a one-year contract extension through 2020-’21 after leading the Cornhuskers to their most conference wins in a season.
The Huskers were 22-11 and played in the National Invitation Tournament. Their 13-5 record in Big Ten play was good for fourth place, tied with national runner-up Michigan.
Miles is 97-97 with one NCAA Tournament appearance in six years after coming to Nebraska from Colorado State.
NFL
Former New York Jets center Nick Mangold retired after an 11-year career in which he established himself as one of the league’s best at his position.
The 34-year-old Mangold announced that he will sign a one-day contract with the Jets to retire as a member of the team. Mangold didn’t play last season after he was released by New York in February 2017.
Known for his consistency, sense of humor and blond, bushy Viking-like beard, Mangold was one of the most popular Jets players among teammates and fans.
HOCKEY
The Calgary Flames fired coach Glen Gulutzan after two years with the club.
Assistant coaches Dave Cameron and Paul Jerrard were also relieved of their duties.
Gulutzan led the Flames to the playoffs in his first season in Calgary, eventually being swept by the Anaheim Ducks. But the club missed the playoffs this year after posting a 37-35-10 record.
AUTO RACING
Ford is bringing its Mustang to NASCAR’s top series for the first time.
The American automaker said the Mustang will replace the Fusion in the Monster Energy Cup Series beginning next February at Daytona International Speedway. NASCAR team owner Roger Penkse slipped earlier this year, divulging that Ford would have a new body in 2019.
This will be Ford’s fourth Cup model in NASCAR’s modern era (since 1972), following the Thunderbird, the Taurus and the Fusion.
TENNIS
Jared Donaldson was fined $6,200 for unsportsmanlike conduct after angrily ranting at the chair umpire during his first-round loss to Albert Ramos-Vinolas at the Monte Carlo Masters.
The American became irate with a call when Ramos-Vinolas was serving at 3-2, 40-0 in the second set on Monday. Donaldson thought the serve was out and pointed to the ground, shouting, “There’s a mark right here,” and then screaming the same words in the face of French umpire Arnaud Gabas.
He then squared up to Gabas and shouted: “Yes it is, yeah it is,” as he insisted his mark was right and the umpire’s call of in was wrong.
Donaldson, who yelled again at Gabas before the supervisor came on, received a code violation. He lost, 6-3, 6-3.