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Basketball
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Penguin Club is offering three basketball bus trips.
Motorcoach trips are being offered for YSU's men's games at Cleveland State (Jan. 8) and Detroit (Feb. 26) as well as for the women's game at Cleveland State on Feb. 2. For more information, or to make a reservation, please contact the Penguin Club at (330) 941-2351.
Academics
YOUNGSTOWN -- Ten former Youngstown State student-athletes took part in graduation ceremonies earlier this month.
The athletes who graduated were Amanda Berry (softball), Annie Buschur (volleyball), Pat Crummey (football), Jennie Fleiner (women's golf), Chris Hine (cross country), Ryan Martino (football), Devin Novak (women's basketball), Carrie Playforth (soccer), Darius Peters (football) and Colleen Royer (volleyball). Buschur, Hine, Martino and Novak graduated with honors
LOCAL
Mountaineer boxing
CHESTER, W. Va. -- The last of the 2004 pro boxing cards at Mountaineer's Race Track and Gaming Resort will be in "The Harv" Thursday.
It is a scheduled seven-bout card with five of those bouts 10 round championship fights.
Youngstown's Pat Nelson with a stable of more than 30 boxers will have two of his fighters in title bouts and his father Chuck Nelson of Boardman will also have a fighter in a title bout.
Mountaineer's night of championship boxing's main event will have the Pat Nelson managed Brian & quot;The Beast & quot; Minto from Butler, Pa. defending his West Virginia heavyweight title in a 10 rounder with Tony & quot;TNT & quot; Tubbs from Cincinnati. Minto is 18-0 with 11 knockouts and Tubbs, a former World Boxing Association heavyweight champion, is 48-10 with 25 KOs.
Mike & quot;Fully Loaded & quot; Carr (13-1-2, 9 KOs) is from Pittsburgh and in the Pat Nelson stable. He will be in a 10-round battle with Kyle Patrick (8-1) from Columbus for the NABC America's title for Cruiserweights.
Chuck Nelson manages & quot;Irish & quot; Davey McBride, the lightweight from Salem.
McBride (6-5, 3 KOs), who trains at the Southside Boxing Club in Youngstown, will fight for the West Virginia State lightweight championship, a 10-rounder against defending champion Monty Meza-Clay (13-0, 9 KOs) from Rankin, Pa.
Two other championship 10-rounders will have Verquan Kimbrough (9-0-1, 6 KOs) from Aliquippa, Pa., in a NABC Junior Lightweight championship fight against Terrell Hargrove (8-7, 4 KOs) from Lexington, Ky., and George & quot;Da Butcher & quot; Klinesmith battling Tony Black for the West Virginia State Junior Middleweight championship.
Two other bouts will have Joe Wyatt (19-0) from Pittsburgh in a six-round welterweight fight with Abdul Blackburn (7-3-1) from Columbus, and a heavyweight four-rounder has Akron's Nick Firtha (2-0-1, 1 KO) fighting Mark Johnson (3-24) from Detroit.
The first fight is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Correction
Bryanne Halfhill scored 12 points for Canfield in a victory over Hudson on Monday. She was mistakenly credited with 2. She also had 11 rebounds and eight assists.
NATION
Bobby Petrinoto speak with LSU
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Louisville football coach Bobby Petrino has met with LSU officials about the Tigers' job but refused to say if he expected further talks.
"There's no offer on the table," he said Tuesday.
Nuggets fire Bzdelik after lackluster start
DENVER -- Following a lackluster loss to Cleveland earlier this month, Denver coach Jeff Bzdelik questioned whether his players were in shape and said he was losing sleep because of the Nuggets' inconsistent play.
Unfortunately for him, things never really got better.
Denver fired Bzdelik on Tuesday, one day after the Nuggets lost their sixth straight game and failed again to live up to the high expectations that came with the offseason addition of All-Star forward Kenyon Martin. Assistant Michael Cooper took over on an interim basis after Bzdelik became the first NBA coach to be fired this season.
Cooper coached the Los Angeles Sparks to two WNBA championships and a finals appearance in four years before joining the Nuggets this season.
Vandy player killed over 'trash talk'
TAMPA, Fla. -- Vanderbilt running back Kwane Doster was shot to death after his friends and a group of other men exchanged "trash talk" about their cars, Tampa police said Tuesday.
Police continued to appeal for help in making an arrest in the Sunday morning shooting. Police said they have suspects, but need witnesses who might have seen who fired the fatal shot.
Doster, 21, was shot to death at a sandwich shop after visiting a local club with two friends about 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
While leaving the club, Doster's friends had a discussion with three other men about their cars, said Tampa police spokesman Joe Durkin. Both groups were driving what Durkin described as "show" cars, and the arguments centered on whose car was better.
Vindicator staff/wire reports