BOXER PATRICK DAY DIES BRAIN INJURIES 4 DAYS AFTER FIGHT
CHICAGO» Boxer Patrick Day died Wednesday, four days after suffering head injuries in a fight with Charles Conwell. Promoter Lou DiBella said Day died at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He was 27.
Day had brain surgery after being knocked out in the 10th round Saturday night at Wintrust Arena. Knocked down twice earlier in the bout, the junior middleweight was taken from the ring on a stretcher.
Two days after the fight, Conwell posted a heartfelt message to Day on social media.
“I never meant for this to happen to you. All I ever wanted to do was win. If I could take it all back I would. No one deserves for this to happen to them,” Conwell wrote. “I replay the fight over and over in my head thinking what if this never happened and why did it happen to you.”
3-time Olympic cyclist Phinney retires.
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-time Olympic cyclist Taylor Phinney announced he is retiring from professional racing, ending a career that included 10 world championship medals and a stage win at the Giro d’Italia.
Phinney announced Wednesday that he would ride for his team, EF Education First, for the last time this weekend in Japan.
The 29-year-old Phinney, whose parents, Davis Phinney and Connie Carpenter-Phinney, were Olympic medalists, began his career on the track, where he competed in the individual pursuit at the 2008 Beijing Games.
He soon transitioned to the road, where he finished fourth in the road race and time trial at the 2012 London Games. Phinney also competed in the 2016 Rio Olympics, completing a long comeback from a crash at the 2014 national championships that left him with career-threatening injuries.
NCAA: College athletes graduating at record rate.
INDIANAPOLIS» Graduation rates among college athletes continue to hit record highs.
The NCAA’s most recent statistics, released Wednesday, show 89% of all athletes who enrolled in college in 2012 earned degrees, an increase of 1 percentage point over last year’s alltime high.
In a release, the University of Denver said that it recorded the highest Graduation Success Rate (GSR) among Colorado schools at 94%. That rate was tied for 51st-best in the country and was also best among Summit League schools.
CU recorded an overall GSR of 91% during the same period, according to NCAA data, while CSU turned in its highest graduation rate at 86%.
Goodell: Pass interference reviews working as expected.
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Roger Goodell says the new video review rule for pass interference is working as expected, with only obvious mistakes being corrected.
Through Week 6, the league has had 44 reviews related to pass interference, and the on-field ruling was reversed seven times. Goodell says the goal with the rule was to reverse only egregious errors.
The new rule approved as a oneyear experiment allows pass interference calls or non-calls to be challenged by coaches and reviewed via replay. But complaints by coaches, players and fans about pass interference persist, with some arguing more calls should be reversed.
When the replay rule was adopted last spring, Goodell said, coaches understood that close calls wouldn’t be changed.
Ruth’s bat used for 500th homer up for auction.
ANGELES» The bat LOS used by Babe Ruth to slug his 500th career home run in 1929 is going up for auction, nearly 75 years after he gave it to a friend whose family has kept it ever since.
Ruth became the first player to reach the coveted plateau on Aug. 11, 1929, hitting a solo shot for the New York Yankees off Willis Hudlin at League Park in Cleveland.