SPORTS digest

YSU announces football camps

Youngstown

The Youngstown State football program is hosting nine summer camps between June 4 and July 29. All camps are for high school kids and with the exception of two satellite camps, all are at either Stambaugh Stadium or the WATTS.

June 4 is the offensive and defensive line day and June 7 and June 9 are both all position camps. The QB/WR/TE camp is June 18, followed by the McFadden and Wilkins kickers camp on Jone 21. The final two local camps are the Monday Night Football camp and the 7-on-7 passing camp on July 25 and July 29, respectively.

The two satellite camps are at Centerville High School in Dayton on June 15 and at Upper Arlington High School in Columbus on June 16.

For more information or to register, call the football office at 330-941-3478 or visit penguinsfootballcamps.com.

Registration open for YSU basketball camps

YOUNGSTOWN

Campers can sign up for Youngstown State’s three basketball camps this summer. The first one runs from June 13-15 and is for kids in grades 6-11. The second is on June 20-23 and the third camp for 6-12 graders runs on June 22-23.

For costs to register and more information, visit mensbasketball.penguinsbasketballcamps.com.

Strongman competition in Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN

The Ironman Warehouse on Federal Street is hosting a strongman and fitness competition on May 28 with cash prizes.

Registration and wiegh-ins start at 10:30 a.m. with the strongman competition starting afterwards and the fitness competition is at 1 p.m.

It costs $50 for the strongman and $40 for the fitness competition. For more information, call 330-360-3637.

Seahawks WR retires due to neck injury

RENTON, Wash.

Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Ricardo Lockette is retiring six months after suffering a serious neck injury in a game at Dallas.

The team confirmed the retirement and has scheduled a news conference with Lockette today.

Lockette was knocked out and remained motionless on the field for several minutes after a hit by Cowboys safety Jeff Heath during the Nov. 1 victory over Dallas. He was eventually strapped to a backboard and taken off the field. Lockette underwent surgery at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas the next day to stabilize his neck.

Lockette has been a special teams standout for the Seahawks since joining the team in 2011.

Third party tries to butt into ‘Deflategate’

NEW YORK

A woman who unsuccessfully tried to intervene in Tom Brady’s legal case against the NFL over the “Deflategate” scandal is asking the court to reconsider his four-game suspension.

The filing this week in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes as the New England Patriots quarterback and the NFL Players Association consider whether to challenge a decision to reinstate the discipline for Brady’s role in using footballs that were improperly inflated.

The woman does not appear to have any connection to Brady or legal standing in the case.

Russia denies doping again

MEXICO CITY

The head of the 2018 World Cup in Russia says there hasn’t been state-sponsored doping in the country, disputing a key finding of a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation.

WADA commission head Dick Pound said last year that Russia seemed to have been sporting a “state-supported” doping program in track and field.

But 2018 World Cup organizing committee chief esecutive Alexey Sorokin says “it’s not like it’s claimed occasionally — that it’s part of a national policy. On the contrary, it’s been said publicly that our policy is no tolerance against doping.”

Staff/wire report