IN BRIEF
Bidwill released from hospital
Arizona Cardinals team owner Michael Bidwill was released from the Rhode Island hospital Sunday where he was being treated for COVID-19. Bidwill felt symptoms earlier in the week, and tested positive for the novel coronavirus, as first reported by The Republic Friday.
"This week I learned first-hand just how serious COVID-19 is," Bidwill said in a statement to The Republic. "My immense appreciation for all those on the front lines of this pandemic has only increased and I am particularly grateful to the tremendous nurses and doctors at Newport (R.I.) Hospital.
"I am also overwhelmed by the outpouring of kindness from the Red Sea as well as so many friends and colleagues in Arizona and throughout the country. I’m very fortunate to have this experience behind me and strongly encourage everyone to continue practicing the important measures to avoid it themselves."
Ex-ASU, Mercury guard tests positive for coronavirus
Former Arizona State and Phoenix Mercury guard Briann January recently tested positive for coronavirus.
The Connecticut Sun announced Sunday that January and guard Natisha Hiedeman are in self-isolation for positive COVID-19 tests.
Both are expected to join the Sun at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., following two negative tests then will quarantine and receive further testing once at the bubble site for the WNBA season.
Former ASU runner breaks American record in 5,000
Shelby Houlihan, who went to Arizona State before pursuing her professional career, set a American record in the 5,000-meter run Friday night at the Bowerman Track Club intrasquad meet in Oregon. She ran in 14 minutes, 23.92 seconds, beating her own record (14:34.45) by more than 10 seconds.
“I just tried to have a big kick in the last lap,” Houlihan, a 2016 Olympian, told USATF.tv afterward. “I had seen on the scoreboard that the projected time was like 14:37. I don’t know if it was right, but I was just like ‘go’ on that last lap.
“That’s all I was focused on, to try and finish as hard as I could.”
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Spirit down Dash 1-0 in Challenge Cup
HERRIMAN, Utah – Bayley Feist scored early and the Washington Spirit held off the Houston Dash for a 1-0 victory on Sunday in the National Women’s Soccer League’s Challenge Cup.
Feist grabbed a pass from Ashley Hatch and scored from atop the penalty area in the 16th minute at Zions Bank Stadium.
Rachel Daly had a good chance for the Dash in the final minutes of the opening half, but her angled shot hit the far corner of the crossbar. Daly and teammate Shea Groom each had two goals going into the match.
The Spirit did not play U.S. national team star Rose Lavelle. The team lost midfielder Andi Sullivan early in the second half when she had to be helped off the field with an apparent injury.
With the win, the Spirit move into second place in the standings behind the North Carolina Courage.
It was the final group match for both teams, which had identical 1-1-1 records going in. The seeding for the knockout stage will be determined by Sunday and Monday’s matches.
The Chicago Red Stars were set to play the Utah Royals in Sunday’s late match.
UMass hockey players roll to raise funds for cancer charity
BOSTON – Two varsity hockey players at a Massachusetts college plan to don inline skates and roll from Boston to Michigan to raise money for the American Cancer Society.
Andrew Walker and Jacob Adkins, roommates at the University of Massachusetts Boston, are scheduled to depart from campus on Monday for a roughly 875-mile skate to Mason, Michigan.
They plan to skate 100 to 150 miles per day and finish in seven to 10 days.
Adkins, of Windham, New Hampshire, is a biology major whose family recently moved from Denver.
His mother, Ali, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2014 and was in and out of the hospital for a year until she was declared in remission in 2015.
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