Georgetown fires Ewing after six losing years
Patrick Ewing was fired as men’s basketball coach at Georgetown Thursday after the latest in a series of rough seasons at the school he led to a national championship as a player in the 1980s.
Ewing was 75-109 in six seasons, including the last two in which the Hoyas won just 13 times while posting a winning percentage of .206. In those two seasons, Ewing presided over a Big East record 29-game conference losing streak that began in March 2021 and ended in January.
His last game was an 8048 loss to Villanova on Wednesday night in the first round of the Big East tournament at Madison Square Garden, the arena where Ewing was a star for the NBA’s New York Knicks for so many years.
Pro football
The NFL awarded 37 compensatory picks to 16 teams for the upcoming draft. San Francisco 49ers received a league-high seven — three of which were awarded based on their record in promoting diversity, rewards for developing Robert Saleh, Martin Mayhew, Mike McDaniel, Ran Carthon and DeMeco Ryans in the last three hiring cycles.
• Geno Smith parlayed a comeback-player-of-theyear season into a new three-year deal with the Seattle Seahawks that could be worth up to $105 million.
•The New York Jets are releasing wide receiver/ kick returner Braxton Berrios in a salary cap move, according to a person familiar with the decision. Berrios was an All-Pro as a kick returner in 2021. He was due to count $8.2 million against the salary cap this year.
Soccer
Former Fox executive Hernan Lopez was convicted of paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes to nab broadcasting rights to the World Cup and other top soccer matches. A second ex-executive, Carlos Martinez, was acquitted. Lopez is the former CEO of Fox International Channels.
Auto racing
Formula One driver Jenson Button will make his NASCAR debut later this month at Circuit of the Americas, the first of three Cup Series races scheduled for the former world champion. Fellow F1 driver Kimi
Räikkönen is also scheduled to drive in the road course race in Austin, Texas. “Two F1 world champions in a NASCAR race. Who would have ever predicted that?” Button said.
Tennis
Danielle Collins, the 2022 Australian Open runnerup, lost a second consecutive match against an opponent ranked outside the top 50, knocked out 6-4, 6-4 by 80th-ranked Dalma Galfi in the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. Collins delivered only nine winners while making 41 unforced errors.
Colleges
The University of Iowa’s president says a race discrimination lawsuit filed against the University of Iowa by former football players will be settled using funds entirely from the school instead of having taxpayer money cover half of the $4.2 million deal as was announced earlier this week.
Golf
John Catlin and Dylan Mostert shared the firstround lead at the European tour’s Kenya Open in Nairobi after beginning with 64s.