Hal Greer dies — Hall of Fame guard
Hal Greer, a Hall of Fame guard with a dazzling jump shot who helped take the Philadelphia 76ers to the 1967 NBA championship, died Saturday night in Arizona. He was 81.
The 76ers announced his death on the team’s website but did not specify the cause or say where in Arizona he died.
Greer averaged 19.2 points per game in a 15-year (1958-73) NBA career. He was a 10-time AllStar.
Former Duke head coach Vic Bubas, who led the Blue Devils to Final Fours in 1963, 1964 and 1966, has died. University spokesman Jon Jackson says family members told him Bubas died Monday at age 91. No cause of death was given. Bubas went 213-67 with the Blue Devils from 1959 through ’69.
Daedra Charles-Furlow, a Women’s Basketball Hall of Famer who played on Tennessee’s 1989 and 1991 national-title teams, has died. She was 49.
ELSEWHERE Sharapova will play in San Jose event
Five-time Grand Slam champion and former world No. 1 player Maria Sharapova has announced she will play in the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic, July 30Aug. 5, at the event’s new home, San Jose State.
The tournament was known as the Bank of the West Classic and was played at Stanford.
Novak Djokovic reached the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters with a 6-0, 6-1 win over Dusan Lajovic. College basketball: Duke forward Wendell Carter Jr. is leaving for the NBA after one season in college. A team spokesman says Carter plans to hire an agent.
North Carolina State center Omer Yurtseven is transferring to Georgetown.
Virginia has hired former WNBA forward Tina Thompson to coach its women’s team. She was the WNBA’s career scoring leader until she was passed by Diana Taurasi last summer. She was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this year and will be inducted in September. She replaces former Cal head coach Joanne Boyle, who resigned after seven seasons to attend to a family matter.
Washington State named Kamie Ethridge as its women’s head coach. Ethridge, a Division I coach for the past 27 years, replaces June Daugherty, who was fired last month after 11 seasons.
Duke women’s coach Joanne P. McCallie is taking a medical leave of about two months to treat her kidneys. Figure skating: Canadian Patrick Chan, who won an Olympic gold medal as part of the team event at the Pyeongchang Olympics, is retiring after more than a decade on the world stage. Chan made it official after alluding to it during the Winter Games.
Soccer: A FIFA task force has arrived in Morocco to inspect a World Cup bid that obscures one potential impediment to hosting the 2026 showpiece: Homosexuality is a criminal offense in the north African country.
An Associated Press review of documents submitted to FIFA found Morocco has failed to declare its anti-LGBT law as a risk factor and provide a remedy, appearing to flout stringent new bidding requirements.