Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Mooney’s Cunningham headed to John Carroll
YOUNGSTOWN
Cardinal Mooney High graduate Joe Cunningham will continue his basketball career at John Carroll.
Cunningham holds Mooney’s single-season and career 3-point records. He was a second team all-district selection and special mention all-Ohioan this season and earned honorable mention honors in 2013. He also earned the U.S. Army student-athlete award and the OHSAA’s Archie Griffin award.
He will study business and finance at John Carroll.
Church parish plans golf outing for Aug. 9
YOUNGSTOWN
Saint Angela Merici (formerly Sacred Heart) Parish has scheduled its second annual golf outing on Aug. 9 at Knoll Run Golf Course.
The four-person scramble event, held in memory of Archie Tamburino, has a 2 p.m. shotgun start.
The cost is $260 per team. Contact Jim Zagorsky at 330-881-8174 or Carmen Lofaro at 330-207-0800 for more information.
More tickets offered for LeBron’s homecoming
AKRON
LeBron James’ Ohio hometown says more tickets are being offered for the homecoming event expected to be his first public appearance in the state since announcing his return to the Cleveland Cavaliers. The first round of free tickets for the Aug. 8 show at InfoCision Stadium in Akron was released Monday, and fans claimed them within hours. The city says more tickets will be made available Wednesday evening in response to the overwhelming demand.
NCAA settles lawsuit over head injuries
CHICAGO
The NCAA agreed Tuesday to settle a class-action head-injury lawsuit by creating a $70 million fund to diagnose thousands of current and former college athletes to determine if they suffered brain trauma playing football, hockey, soccer and other contact sports. College sports’ governing body also agreed to implement a single return-to-play policy spelling out how all teams must treat players who received head blows, according to a filing in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
Unlike a proposed settlement in a similar lawsuit against the NFL, this deal stops short of setting aside money to pay players who suffered brain trauma.
Hamlin crew chief suspended 6 races
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
NASCAR suspended Denny Hamlin’s crew chief and car chief on Tuesday for six races because the Joe Gibbs Racing entry failed inspection following his third-place finish at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Darian Grubb and Wesley Sherrill were both suspended through the Sept. 6 race at Richmond. Grubb, the crew chief, was also fined $125,000.
Scott officially (finally) named Lakers’ coach
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.
Byron Scott was a key component of the Los Angeles Lakers’ Showtime teams, a smooth shooting guard with sizzling competitive fire. He believes his purple-and-gold championship pedigree makes him the ideal coach to return the struggling 16-time champions to NBA contention.
Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Jamaal Wilkes surprised Scott before he was formally named the 25th coach in franchise history on Tuesday, standing behind him in a towering show of support.
NBA players union has new executive director
Michele Roberts has watched basketball for as long as she can remember. That got her started toward becoming the first woman to lead a North American pro sports union. Roberts was elected early Tuesday morning as executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, and the Washington trial lawyer is eager to provide the leadership it needs after a few difficult years.
Roberts received 32 of 36 votes at a meeting of players in Las Vegas.
Staff reports/Associated Press