Boxer dies four days after suffering brain injury in fight
Boxer Patrick Day has died four days after sustaining head injuries in a fight with Charles Conwell.
Promoter Lou DiBella said Day died Wednesday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He was 27.
Day had brain surgery after being knocked out in the 10th round Saturday night at Chicago’s Wintrust Arena. Knocked down twice earlier in the bout, the junior middleweight was taken from the ring on a stretcher.
From Freeport, New York, Day had a career record of 17-4-1 with six knockouts.
Football
JERRY RICE’S SON PICKS COLORADO >> Brenden Rice, the son of Hall of Fame receiver Jerry Rice, will play football at Colorado. Rice, a three-star wide receiver from Hamilton High-Chandler, Arizona, announced his decision in a video posted on social media, picking the Buffaloes over Arizona State, Michigan and Oregon.
Jerry Rice is the NFL’s all-time leader in receptions (1,549), receiving yards (22,895) and touchdown catches (197).
The younger Rice is similarly built at 6-foot-2, 204 pounds. He is ranked as the 403rd-best prospect in the nation and the No. 12 recruit in Arizona, according to the 247Sports composite rankings.
Golf
ALFREDSSON COMPLETES SWEEP OF LPGA SENIOR EVENTS >> Helen Alfredsson added the Senior LPGA Championship to her U.S. Senior Women’s Open title, rallying at cold and windy French Lick (Indiana) Resort to sweep the two major championships of the season.
Two strokes behind Juli Inkster entering the day, Alfredsson closed with a 2-under 70 for a three-stroke victory over Inkster. The 54-year-old Swede was the only player to break par on the final day at the Pete Dye Course and, at 2-under 214, the only one under par for the week.
Alfredsson won the U.S. Senior Women’s Open in June at Pine Needles, beating Inkster by two strokes,
• The rules have changed since Lee Ann Walker lasted played competitive golf. She found out the hard way. Walker shot rounds of 85 and 74 at the Senior LPGA Championship. That was before she realized players no longer can putt when their caddies have been standing directly behind them.
She had to add 42 penalty shots to her first round, turning that into a 127, and 16 more penalty shots for the second round, turning that into a 90.
It left Walker contemplating a consolation prize.
“I may have made the Guinness Book of World Records,” she said Wednesday on her drive home to North Carolina, where she works in the real estate industry.
NBA
REPORT: BROWN TURNS DOWN CELTICS’ $80M OFFER >> Swingman Jaylen Brown, who played at Cal for one year, is not interested in the four-year, $80 million extension he has received from the Boston Celtics, Yahoo Sports reported.
Brown, who turns 23 next week, is heading into the final season of his contract, and he would be a restricted free agent next summer unless he comes to an agreement with the Celtics.
In the past week, multiple media outlets reported that Brown hired agent Jason Glushon of Glushon Sports Management to represent him. Brown had played three seasons in the NBA without an agent.
KINGS MAKE BOGDANOVIC A MAX OFFER >> Sacramento Kings guard Bogdan Bogdanovic isn’t in a hurry to sign a maximum contract extension worth $51.4 million over four years.
“Maybe we will sign tomorrow. Maybe we sign in a month. Who knows? We will see,” he told the Sacramento Bee.
Bogdanovic, 27, could also choose to play out the final year of a threeyear, $27 million contract and test his value as a restricted free agent after this season.
Motorsports
STENHOUSE SIGNS TO DRIVE FOR JTG DAUGHERTY >> Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has signed a multiyear deal to drive for JTG Daugherty Racing, essentially completing a swap of drivers with Roush Fenway Racing after that team announced Chris Buescher wouldn’t return next season. The 32-year-old Stenhouse was notified last month that he would be replaced by Buescher in the No. 17 Ford after a decade with Roush Fenway Racing. Now, Stenhouse will take Buescher’s ride and join Ryan Preece in a two-car effort.
WNBA
LEAGUE RECEIVES HIGH GRADES AGAIN IN DIVERSITY HIRING >> A diversity report shows the WNBA remains the leader among all professional sports leagues in hiring women and minorities for coaching and front-office positions. The league earned an overall A-plus grade, including an A-plus for racial hiring and an A for gender hiring, The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports (TIDES) announced Wednesday.
Olympics
MARATHONS SET TO MOVE OUT OF TOKYO TO COOLER NORTH >> Amid concern about the expected searing heat in Tokyo, the IOC wants to move the 2020 Olympic marathons 800 kilometers (500 miles) north to find cooler and safer race conditions. The International Olympic Committee detailed a new plan to stage the marathons and race walking events in Sapporo, which “will mean significantly lower temperatures for the athletes.”
The proposal comes weeks after marathons were run around midnight in 100 degrees at the track and field world championships in Doha, Qatar. Forecast temperatures in Sapporo are “five to six degrees centigrade cooler during the day than in Tokyo,” the Olympic body said.