Local throwers qualify for national meet

Local throwers qualify for national meet

AUSTINTOWN

Christian Armstrong, Jameire Robinson, Jacob Brooks and Jamell James will represent the Steel Valley Nitro track club in the national meet in North Carolina in August.

They all finished in the top six in Saturday’s meet in Columbus.

Armstrong won the shot put and was the runner-up in the discus in the 17-18 division. Robinson won the shot put and discus in the 15-16 division while Brooks was runner-up in both events. James won both events in 14-year-old division.

3 area hoops players in Top 100 showcase

Beaver Township

Three local boys basketball players were invited to the Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association’s Top 100 Showcase last Saturday at Capital University.

Boardman’s Derrick Anderson, South Range’s Chris Brooks and Struthers’ Carson Ryan appeared in the recruiting showcase.

Browns speak with Hunt after bar incident

CLEVELAND

The Browns spoke to suspended running back Kareem Hunt after he was involved in an incident outside a downtown bar.

The 23-year-old Hunt, who will serve an eight-game NFL ban this season for off-field physical altercations, got into an argument with a friend late Saturday night. TMZ.com obtained a video taken near the Barley House, a popular night spot, of Hunt talking to officers. During the brief clip, one of them says to Hunt: “I saw him push you.”

Hunt was not arrested and Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia, a Cleveland police spokeswoman, said no reports were filed.

Browns spokesman Peter Jean-Baptiste said the club was aware of the incident, talked to Hunt and will have no further comment.

Hunt received his eight-game penalty from the league for his violent behavior, which included him shoving and kicking a woman in the hallway of a Cleveland hotel in February 2018.

Marshall’s Walker released from hospital

HUNTINGTON, W.Va.

A Marshall University football player who was shot in the back Saturday has been released from the hospital.

The Herald-Dispatch reports 19-year-old Dante James Walker was released Monday.

Assistant Athletic Director for Media Relations Jason Corriher says Walker will make a full recovery.

Huntington Police Chief Hank Dial says Walker was walking with a friend when they heard shots. He was hit in the upper right part of his back.

Celtics coach sentenced in college bribery case

MIAMI

A Boston Celtics assistant coach has been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay a fine for accepting $300,000 in bribes to get a wealthy Florida businessman’s son into the University of Pennsylvania.

Court records show a federal judge imposed the sentence Monday on Jerome Allen, the former head basketball coach at Penn. In addition to four years’ probation, the 47-year-old Allen must pay a $202,000 fine and forfeit another $18,000.

Allen received a lenient sentence after testifying for prosecutors against Philip Esformes in a $1 billion Medicare fraud trial. Esformes was convicted in April of 20 counts including money laundering and obstruction of justice and awaits sentencing.

Switzerland soccer player confirmed dead

BERN, Switzerland

Switzerland’s soccer federation says the body of national team player Florijana Ismaili has been recovered three days after a swimming accident in Italy. She was 24.

Ismaili went missing Saturday at Lake Como in northern Italy. She did not surface after jumping into the water from a boat she rented with a friend.

The Swiss federation says it is “dismayed, shocked and very, very much in pain,” and offers “sincere condolences” to Ismaili’s family and friends.

Staff/wire report