UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO CHALLENGED OVER SPORTS CUTS
ALBUQUERQUE» The attorney general of New Mexico announced Thursday that his office will take the University of New Mexico to court unless its board of regents reconsiders a decision to eliminate four sports.
Attorney General Hector Balderas gave the Mountain West school 15 days to respond to an opinion by his office that the school violated state open meetings laws when it moved to cut men’s soccer, men’s and women’s skiing and women’s beach volleyball.
The regents voted unanimously July 19 to eliminate the four sports, cut diving from the women’s swimming and diving program and dramatically reduce the men’s track and field roster.
Armstrong crashes on Snowmass Village trail.
Sometimes you’re the hammer and sometimes you’re the nail, is how Lance Armstrong put it.
Armstrong face-planted Wednesday and posted an image of the damage inflicted by the Tom Blake Trail in Snowmass Village, just outside Aspen. Armstrong reported that he “took quite the blow to the noggin” and was checked out at Aspen Valley Hospital. Older and wiser, the star cyclist admitted that he didn’t just shrug this off. “For the 46 years prior to today, I completely would have blown off getting checked,” he wrote. “Not now.”
Police: College coach threw punch that killed NYC tourist.
rising star in men’s college basketball’s coaching ranks threw a punch that led to the death of a New York City tourist who apparently mistook him for an Uber driver, police said Thursday.
Wake Forest assistant coach Jamill Jones attacked digital marketing guru Sandor Szabo around 1:15 a.m. Sunday in Queens, causing him to fall and hit his head on the sidewalk, police said.
Jones, 35, of Kernersville, N.C., turned himself in to police Thursday, accompanied by a lawyer. He is awaiting arraignment on a misdemeanor assault charge.
Coyotes sign Dvorak to contract extension.
ARIZ.» The Arizona GLENDALE, Coyotes signed center Christian Dvorak to a six-year contract extension averaging $4.45 million per year. The deal, announced Thursday, will keep Dvorak with Arizona through the 2024-25 season.
K-State signs Bill Snyder to new five-year contract.
So much for Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder retiring anytime soon.
Just days after saying he felt energized heading into this season, the Big 12 school announced Thursday it had signed Snyder to a new five-year contract that includes a pay bump to $3.45 million this season and could keep the 78-year-old coach with the Wildcats through the 2022 season.
Girl arrested in connection with theft at Scott Frost’s home.
Police arrested a 17-year-old girl who had a pair of shoes believed to have been stolen from the home of first-year Nebraska football coach Scott Frost.
Police said Thursday she was arrested Tuesday and that investigators are searching for others who might have been involved in the burglary that took several items from the home.
Frost reported July 29 that burglars entered an unlocked garage door at the house, which is unoccupied while it’s being renovated.
Transfer flurry in EPL for every team apart from Tottenham.
Fulham signaled its determination to stay in the Premier League by becoming the first promoted team to spend over $128 million in the summer transfer window. In an abbreviated trading period when English top-tier soccer clubs collectively spent more than $1.5 billion, there was one anomaly by the close of business on Thursday. For the first time since the summer transfer window was introduced 15 years ago, one team spent nothing: Tottenham.