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Published: May 9, 2008
Duke adds Plumlee to basketball-recruiting class
DURHAM -- Duke added another member to its 2008 basketball recruiting class yesterday when it signed Miles Plumlee.
Plumlee originally signed a national letter of intent with Stanford but asked for and was granted his release after Coach Trent Johnson left Stanford to take the coaching job at LSU in early April. Duke received the paperwork to make the announcement official yesterday.
Plumlee, a 6-10, 230-pound power forward from Christ School in Arden, joins Elliot Williams and Olek Czyz in the Duke recruiting class. Plumlee averaged 15.8 points, 6.9 rebounds and 2.5 blocks while leading Christ School to its second straight NCISAA state championship as a senior. The Greenies went 34-2 and defeated Greensboro Day 50-41 in the state final. Plumlee was named to the NCISAA 3A All-State team.
Plumlee, originally from Warsaw, Ind., started prep school at Christ School in 2006-07. He helped the Greenies to two state championships and a 63-6 overall record in two seasons.
More basketball
■ West Virginia University officials say Coach Bob Huggins has been taken to a hospital in Charlotte for precautionary reasons after tripping on an airport tarmac and hitting his head on the pavement.
Athletics director Ed Pastilong says Huggins had a bump on his head, and never lost consciousness.
Pastilong says Huggins and other athletic department staff flew to Charlotte yesterday morning for a Mountaineer Athletic Club event.
After Huggins got off the plane, he was checking his cell phone messages when he tripped over a cone on the tarmac and hit his head.
■ Chris Turner, a 6--5 guard that played this past season at Humble Christian (Texas) Life Center, has signed at national letter-of-intent to play basketball at East Carolina, beginning this fall.
Turner, a native of Durham, helped lead Humble Christian to a 31-10 record this past season, averaging 24 points, six rebounds, five assists and two steals.
Turner is the Pirates' second signee of the spring and third of the season. Georgia prep standout Darrius Morrow signed a grant-in-aid with East Carolina earlier this week, while Greenville native Raheem Smith signed with the Pirates during the fall signing period.
Football
■ Ten football players from area high schools are among 25 players who won scholarships from the Eugene Corrigan-Bradley Faircloth Chapter of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame.
They are: LeBrandon Banner (North Forsyth), Darian Canty (Parkland), Robert Chin (Mount Tabor), Turner Faulk (Carver), Francis Fiore (East Forsyth), Nathan Kirkman (Northwest Guilford), Seth LeJune (Southwest Guilford), David McConnell (West Forsyth), Reginald Scales (Reagan) and Dana Stanback (Reynolds). Winners are selected based on excellence in the classroom and community and on the field, and they received $1,000 each.
■ A federal judge has ordered imprisoned quarterback Michael Vick to repay more than $2.4 million to the Royal Bank of Canada for defaulting on a loan. The bank sued Vick in September, arguing that his guilty plea to a federal dog-fighting charge -- and the resulting impact on his career -- prevented him from repaying the loan.
According to the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Newport News, Va., the loan's terms specify that any employment change negatively impacting Vick's income constitutes a default on the loan.
Vick is serving a 23-month sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., after pleading guilty last year to bankrolling a dogfighting ring.
He was indefinitely suspended from the NFL without pay and lost all his major sponsors, including Nike. He also faces state charges related to dog fighting.
■ Cameron Goldberg has been reinstated to Duke's football team by Coach David Cutcliffe.
Goldberg, a 6-6, 280-pound senior left tackle, was suspended on April 15 for what Cutcliffe said was a violation of team rules.
"Cameron has done everything I asked him to do in a timely manner," Cutcliffe said in a prepared statement released by Duke. "I appreciate his sincerity and attention to detail while handling this situation."
Cutcliffe said that Goldberg will resume off-season conditioning with the rest of the team immediately. Goldberg started all 12 games last season.
■ Notre Dame and Arizona State will play in the new $1 billion home of the Dallas Cowboys in 2013.
The Fighting Irish and Sun Devils said yesterday they'll meet Oct. 5, 2013, at the stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Other games already scheduled for the building: The Super Bowl after the 2010 season, the Cotton Bowl after the 2009 season, the Big 12 championship game in 2009 and 2010 and a series between Texas A&M and Arkansas.
The complex with a retractable roof is scheduled to open for the 2009 season.
Notre Dame will be the home team for the game, which will give NBC the television rights.
■ Linebacker Willie McGinest of the Cleveland Browns said the 2008 season will be his last.
McGinest told SI.com that he wants to finish his career on one last playoff run.
"This will be it," he said. "This will be my 15th season. I've worked hard; I think I've done everything I set out to accomplish."
McGinest played 12 seasons and won three Super Bowls with the New England Patriots.
He then signed a three-year, $12 million contract with the Browns in 2006, reuniting him with his former defensive coordinator, Romeo Crennel.
In two seasons with Cleveland, McGinest hasn't been the pass-rushing threat that he was with the Patriots.
He has seven sacks and 107 tackles in 27 games for the Browns.
He had 78 sacks with New England, set the record for most postseason sacks with 16 and the single-game playoff record with 4.5 in a 2006 wild-card win against Jacksonville.
Miscellaneous
■ The Brazilian Football Federation announced yesterday that its U-20 national team will play the Wake Forest men in a soccer match May 17 at Granja Comari, the site of the national-training center in Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil has won four U-20 FIFA World Cup championships. Wake Forest won the NCAA championship last season. Next weekend's match is part of Wake Forest's 10-day trip to Brazil, which will start today.
■ Jim Davis, a former women's basketball coach, and ex-linebacker Anthony Simmons are among eight people named to the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame.
Davis reached the NCAA Tournament 14 times in 18 years. Simmons was a three-time AP all-America from 1995-97.
Others named are rower Lucy Doolittle, swimmer Ruth Grodsky, runner Angel Fleetwood, basketball player Itoro Umoh, football player Willie Underwood, and multi-sport athlete Billy Wingo. Wingo played football and baseball during the 1970s.
The group will be inducted on Sept. 12, then honored at halftime of Clemson's home game with N.C. State the next day.
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