Two Valley coaches honored by OHSAA

Two Valley coaches honored by OHSAA

COLUMBUS

Two Mahoning Valley high school coaches have received Ohio High School Athletic Association Sportsmanship, Ethics and Integrity Awards.

Stacie Butler, the girls golf coach for Cardinal Mooney High School, and Susie Shields, volleyball coach at heartland Christian, were selected for the honors.

South Range passes go on sale Monday

BEAVER TOWNSHIP

The South Range High School Athletic Department will begin selling season passes on Monday.

Dates and hours to purchase passes at the school office are Monday-July 10 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and July 13-17 from 5-8 p.m.

Prices are: $100 for an adult 20-game pass; $50 for an adult 10-game pass; $50 for a 20-game student pass; $25 for a student 10-game pass; and $25 for a senior citizen out-of-district pass. Passes for senior citizens who are residents are free.

A reserved seat for football games costs $50 and a preferred parking pass for $20.

Pa. racetrack to start races early to avoid deer

ERIE, Pa.

A Pennsylvania thoroughbred track will start its races more than two hours earlier and remove nearby bushes and trees to discourage deer from jumping onto the track.

Officials at Presque Isle Downs & Casino in Erie say races will resume Wednesday at 3:05 p.m. instead of the normal 5:25 p.m. post time. That’s to avoid racing at dusk when deer become more active.

A fence around the track will also be made taller. The track canceled racing Monday and Tuesday after a deer ran in front of horses during Sunday’s fourth race. Four later races were canceled that day.

Casino vice president and general manager Jeff Favre says no one wants a jockey or horse to get hurt by a deer. The track holds races Sunday through Thursday.

Sentence delayed for Toledo gambling probe

DETROIT

Lawyers for a Detroit-area gambler caught in a sports bribery scandal at the University of Toledo say it would be “unthinkable” to send the ailing 82-year-old man to prison.

Mitchell “Ed” Karam is the last of nine people to be sentenced. He was expected in Detroit federal court Tuesday, but the hearing was postponed. The ringleader, Ghazi Manni, recently was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison.

The U.S. government says Karam was the “money man” who split the bribes with Manni. Seven Toledo basketball and football players got money and other perks to alter their play to affect games a decade ago.

Karam’s lawyers quote doctors as saying he’ll soon be bedridden because of his many health woes. The government says prison doctors can take care of him.

Knight to step down as Nike chairman

NEW YORK

Nike Chairman Phil Knight plans to step down, and says he wants President and CEO Mark Parker to succeed him.

Knight, 77, says he plans to stay involved with the company after he steps down as chairman. Parker has been Nike’s president and CEO since 2006.

Nike Inc. says it expects to name a new chairman in 2016, but no specific date was set for Knight’s departure. Phil Knight co-founded Nike and has been a director of the company since 1968.

U.S. men off to poor start at Wimbledon

LONDON

Not a good start Tuesday for the American men.

No. 31 Jack Sock, seeded at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time, bowed out in the first round of Wimbledon, beaten 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 by 69th-ranked Sam Groth of Australia.

And in another early match on Day 2 of the tournament, Tim Smyczek lost to No. 30 Fabio Fognini of Italy 6-4, 6-3, 6-2. U.S. men went 3-1 on Monday.

The seven men from the United States represent the country’s smallest group at the All England Club since there were five in 1947.

Staff/wire reports