Special Olympics golf tournament Saturday

July 7, 2011 at 12:00a.m.

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An Area 11 Special Olympics golf tournament will be held Saturday at Northwood Golf Course, beginning at 9 a.m.

Representing teams from Columbiana County MR/DD, Mahoning Public, Youngstown Developmental Center and Fairhaven Special Olympics, 52 golfers will compete.

The Area 11 golf tournament is sponsored by the Fairhaven Special Olympics Program of Trumbull County and serves as a qualifying event for the Special Olympics state tournament in Cincinnati in September.

Napolet reported gone

warren

Several media outlets reported Wednesday night that Tony Napolet has resigned as Warren JFK football coach.

Sharon Speedway

Hartford

Sharon Speedway will have three races in five days, beginning Friday with the “Friday Night Thunder” at 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s card will have six divisions of racing and the next day will be the “Steel Valley Thunder” at 7 p.m.

The Lou Blaney Memorial will be July 12 and will feature the Midwest All Star Sprints and Big Block Modifieds presented Tom’s Sewer & Drain.

Croatia hands US first loss in U19s

RIGA, Latvia

Toni Katic scored 21 points to lead Croatia to an 87-85 victory over the United States on Wednesday in the second round of FIBA’s Under 19 World basketball championship, the defending champion’s first loss in the tournament.

Jeremy Lamb of NCAA champ Connecticut had 25 points for the U.S. (5-1), which had already clinched a berth in the quarterfinals that start Friday.

The U.S. trailed 70-61 after three quarters but went on a 19-5 run over the first 7 minutes of the final period. Lamb hit a jumper with 24.9 seconds left to bring the U.S. within 86-85. Katic made one free throw with 20.4 seconds left to give Croatia (4-2) an 87-85 lead.

Jim Nantz to receive Pete Rozelle Award

CANTON

Announcer Jim Nantz will receive this year’s Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame for “longtime exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football.”

Nantz has been the lead play-by-play voice for CBS’s NFL coverage since 2004. He also was honored by the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame with the Curt Gowdy Media Award in 2002. Nantz joins Dick Enberg and Gowdy as the only broadcasters to be recognized by both the football and basketball halls.

He will receive the award Aug. 5 during a dinner the night before the enshrinement ceremony. At 52, he is the youngest-ever recipient of the Rozelle Award.

Mixed-game poker

LAS VEGAS

The World Series of Poker’s most frequent winner is making a run at his 12th championship bracelet in a $50,000 buy-in tournament widely regarded as the best test of a card player’s all-around skill.

Phil Hellmuth sat at fifth in chips on Wednesday with nine players left at the start of a session to determine the winner of the Poker Players Championship, a mixed-game tournament.

Michael Beasley ticketed for marijuana

MINNEAPOLIS

Police say Minnesota Timberwolves forward Michael Beasley was ticketed for possessing marijuana and speeding in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka last week.

Capt. Scott Boerboom said that an officer stopped Beasley around 3 a.m. on June 26 on Interstate 394 after clocking him going 84 mph in a 65 mph zone. He says the officer smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the car.

The report says the officer found 16.2 grams of it under the front passenger seat of Beasley’s car. It says Beasley claimed the marijuana was not his, but belonged to a friend whom he had just dropped off.

Vindicator staff/wire reports