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Sports Briefs: Hall of Fame trying to recognize coaches from black colleges
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Published: September 12, 2008
Efforts are under way to recognize coaches from traditionally black schools who have not been recognized by the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Mannie Jackson, chairman of the hall's board of directors, is putting together a committee to review the credentials of players and coaches from historically black schools. Specific focus is being given to those who played and coached during the era of segregation.
Among those already in the hall is John McLendon, who coached in what is known as the "Secret Game" in March 1944. That was when his team from the North Carolina College for Negroes beat an all-white team of former college players attending Duke's medical school.
Winston-Salem State's Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, and his coach, the late Clarence "Big House" Gaines, also are Hall of Famers.
More basketball
■ Center Jason Collins of the Minnesota Timberwolves had surgery to repair a ruptured triceps tendon in his right elbow.
The team said yesterday that Collins was injured in a freak golf accident when his cart skidded on some wet ground and tipped over.
The Wolves acquired Collins in a draft-night deal with Memphis that also brought them Mike Miller, Brian Cardinal and rookie Kevin Love.
Collins, a former Stanford star, will miss all of training camp and the start of the regular season. He averaged 1.9 points and 2.4 rebounds for the Nets and Grizzlies last season.
■ The Miami Heat has re-signed guard Chris Quinn.
Quinn was one of the few bright spots last season for the injury-plagued Heat, averaging 14.4 points and 5.9 assists in the final 17 games.
Quinn originally signed with Miami as a free agent in July 2006.
In two years with the Heat, Quinn has averaged 5.9 points and 2.4 assists.
High schools
■ Last night's championship match of the WSFCS Soccer Spectacular was postponed because of rain and rescheduled for Monday. The final, between East Forsyth and North Forsyth, will be played at 7 p.m. at North Forsyth.
Athletics Director Tim White of East Forsyth said that the teams were scheduled to meet in a regular-season match on Monday and that both coaches and school officials agreed to count that as the tournament final.
North Forsyth is 4-1 and in the final for the first time since 1987. East Forsyth is 5-0 and ranked No. 2 in the N.C. Soccer Coaches Association's Class 4-A poll.
Soccer
■ The 12th-ranked Wake Forest women's soccer team will play twice at Spry Stadium this weekend in the Wake Forest Nike Tournament.
In matches today, Cal State Fullerton will play Virginia Tech at 5 p.m., and Wake Forest will play UNC Charlotte at 7:30. The ACC teams will switch opponents Sunday, with Virginia Tech playing UNCC at 11 a.m., and Wake Forest playing Cal State Fullerton at 1:30.
■ Striker Cuauhtemoc Blanco announced his retirement from the Mexican national soccer team yesterday, and then made his final international appearance in a World Cup qualifying match against Canada.
Blanco, 35, played the last seven minutes of the match, which Mexico won 3-0, and then was carried by his teammates as he waved goodbye to 25,000 fans at Victor Manuel Reyna Stadium.
Blanco, one of Mexico's greatest players, told the team of his decision to retire from international soccer late Tuesday.
Hockey
■ The NHL Players' Association hopes to see a pension dispute with the league solved in court.
The union announced yesterday it had filed an application in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice seeking an interpretation of the league's pension plan.
The issue relates to the calculation of the death benefit for players with NHL service before July 1, 1986. The union believes widows and other beneficiaries of players who passed away before taking their pension were paid less than is required by law.
The NHL disagrees.
The issue was raised earlier this year by Brad Park and another former player.
The players' union has discussed the matter with the NHL, but the two parties have been unable to agree on a resolution.
■ Patrick Roy will have his No. 33 retired by the Montreal Canadiens on Nov. 22 before the team's game against the Boston Bruins.
Roy, who previously had his number retired by Colorado, is the NHL's only three-time winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy, awarded to the MVP of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Roy, a four-time Stanley Cup winner, led the Canadiens to his first title as a 20-year-old rookie in 1986. He won his second Cup and second Conn Smythe Trophy in 1993 as Montreal won a record 10 straight overtime games in the playoffs.
Roy, the winningest goalie in league history, retired after the 2002-03 playoffs. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2006.
Miscellaneous
■ A Winston-Salem man was on the U.S. team that won the silver medal yesterday in a rowing event in the Paralympics in Beijing.
Jamie Dean, who is in a combined law/MBA program at Wake Forest, was a member of the team that won the 1,000-meter race in the mixed-coxed-four division. The Italian team won the gold, and the team from Great Britain took the bronze.
Dean, 26, has retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited eye disease that gradually destroys the retina and optic nerve. He can still perceive light to some degree but cannot make out objects.
Dean has an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest and is in the final year of a four-year program that will give him both a law degree and an MBA.
■ Asafa Powell will get another shot at regaining the world record in the 100 meters at the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart, Germany, this weekend.
Powell has run well in the past at the two-day meet, which offers $6 million in prize money.
But after five races in eight days, however, he may not have enough left to challenge his Jamaican countryman Usain Bolt's 9.69-second mark set at the Beijing Olympics.
Bolt is skipping the final, although this weekend's competition in Stuttgart will be followed by several more meets.
It is the final time Stuttgart will stage the final. The stadium is being turned into a football arena and will lose the track.
■ Paolo Bettini of Italy won the 12th stage of the Spanish Vuelta yesterday, and Egoi Martinez of Spain kept the overall lead, staying 11 seconds ahead of American Levi Leipheimer in the third major stage race of the pro cycling season.
Bettini, who also won the sixth stage, completed the 116-mile race from Burgos to Suances in 4 hours, 42 minutes, 44 seconds.
One second back were Italians Davide Rebellin and Damiano Cunego.
Martinez held the overall lead for the fourth straight day, ahead of two Astana riders -- Leipheimer and Alberto Contador of Spain.
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