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Published: September 13, 2008
Wake Forest announces Hall of Famers
Journal staff and wire report
Wake Forest will add six members to its Sports Hall of Fame later this month, including former basketball stars Tim Duncan and Randolph Childress. Also in the class are former basketball coach Dave Odom, triathlete Hunter Kemper, golfer Len Mattiace and Ernie Accorsi, a former NFL general manager.
Induction ceremonies will be the weekend of Sept. 26-27.
Duncan ('97) led the Deacons to four straight 20-win seasons, was a three-time All-America and first-team All-ACC pick and a two-time ACC player of the year. He is No. 2 in NCAA history with 481 career blocks and is one of 10 college players with 2,000 points and 1,500 rebounds.
Childress ('95) led Wake Forest to the 1995 ACC Tournament title by scoring a record 107 points in three games and hitting the winning basket in overtime in the final against North Carolina. He finished his career with 2,208 points (No. 2 at Wake Forest) and 329 3-pointers (No. 2 in ACC history).
Odom, who recently retired at South Carolina, was Wake Forest's head coach for 12 years (1989-2001) and posted a record of 240-132. He was a three-time ACC coach of the year, led the Deacons to 11 straight postseason tournaments, including seven NCAA berths, and ACC Tournament titles in 1995 and 1996.
Kemper ('98) was an All-ACC selection in 1997 after a second-place finish in the 10,000 meters, and he has gone on to compete in three Olympics. He finished seventh in the triathlon in Beijing last month.
Mattiace ('90) was first-team All-ACC and third-team All-America in 1987 and played on an NCAA championship team (1986) and an ACC championship team (1989).
Accorsi ('63) spent 36 years in the NFL, eventually built the New York Giants into one of the league's strongest franchises and was responsible for putting together most of the team that won the Super Bowl in Febuary. At Wake Forest, he was the sports editor of the Old Gold & Black and the sports director for WFDD.
Tennis
Russian tennis star Nikolay Davydenko was cleared by the ATP yesterday after a yearlong investigation into suspicious betting patterns on a match he lost to a low-ranked opponent.
The governing body of men's tennis said it found no evidence of wrongdoing by Davydenko, opponent Martin Vassallo Arguello of Argentina or anyone else associated with their match in Sopot, Poland, on Aug. 2, 2007.
"The ATP has now exhausted all avenues of inquiry open to it and the investigation is now concluded," the association said in a statement.
Davydenko, then ranked No. 5, pulled out of the match against the 87th-ranked Arguello in the third set, citing a foot injury.
Betfair, an online bookmaker, voided all bets on the match. It received about $7 million in wagers on the match, 10 times the usual amount for a similar-level match. Most of the money was on Arguello, even after he lost the first set.
Davydenko, now ranked No. 6, has always denied any wrongdoing and expressed confidence he would be cleared.
Tennis players Cory Parr and Steven Forman of Wake Forest are No. 2 in the nation in the ITA preseason rankings. Parr and Forman had a 22-9 record in 2007-08, reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament and were All-America selections. In the preseason singles poll, Parr is No. 24, and Forman is No. 38.
Basketball
The Cleveland Cavaliers signed restricted free agent guard Delonte West to a two-year contract yesterday, a deal that includes a third-year team option for 2011-12.
Financial terms weren't immediately known. West and his representatives had been seeking a deal worth $5 millon per season.
West was acquired last season from Seattle as part of the three-team, 11-player megatrade before the Feb. 21 deadline.
Filling a major void at point guard, the 6-3 West averaged 10.3 points, 3.7 rebounds and 4.5 assists in 26 starts for the Cavaliers.
"We have guys who really love to play and love to compete," Ferry said.
"We have really good depth everywhere and we have a solid balance of youth and experience."
Miscellaneous
Lance Armstrong said that fighting cancer is the driving force in his decision to race again, and yesterday, he shared a rain-soaked road north of Montreal with about 40 cyclists to promote awareness of the disease.
"As some of you may or may not know, I've decided to race again ... to talk about the global circumstances of this disease," Armstrong said before his ride in the fundraiser.
"It really starts here today in Quebec and in Canada. The disease doesn't discriminate. If it wants to come and get you, it will."
Cyclists who joined Armstrong yesterday had to raise a minimum donation of $25,000.
They included relatives of cancer survivors, including one whose wife died last month after a 13-year battle.
The Dreamcatchers 60-plus women's softball team from Davidson County won a gold medal at the N.C. Senior Games in Raleigh earlier this week.
The Dreamcatchers defeated the Burlington Afterburners 7-5 in the championship game.
Bryant lacrosse coach Mike Pressler will coach the U.S. men's lacrosse team in the 2010 world championships in England.
U.S. Lacrosse announced the selection yesterday.
Pressler is entering his third season at Bryant.
Before that, he coached Duke for 16 seasons. He was forced to resign in 2006 after rape allegations that state prosecutors later determined to be false were leveled against three of his players.
He led the Blue Devils to 10 NCAA Tournament appearances, including a trip to the championship game in 2005.
USA Taekwondo filed a protest with the Court of Arbitration for Sport yesterday in Denver, seeking changes in the sport's judging protocols in the wake of American Steven Lopez's disputed quarterfinal loss in the Beijing Olympics.
The federation's CEO, David Askinas, said the appeal was not designed to overturn results but was instead intended to shine a light on "the internal problems in our sport."
Lopez was the two-time defending Olympics champion heading into Beijing and a favorite to win a third.
He wound up with a bronze.
His loss to Italy's Mario Sarmiento came after he had a point deducted because of a series of penalties.
Lopez protested the decision after the bout but the protest was turned down.
In the case faxed to CAS yesterday, the federation says judges failed to follow the sport's rules by refusing to watch video of the match after the result was protested.
■ Nikita Filatov of the Columbus Blue Jackets will miss the team's rookie camp in Traverse City, Mich., this weekend because of a lower leg injury.
Filatov, an 18-year-old forward, was the club's top pick and sixth in the NHL draft.
He had 32 goals and 34 assists in 34 games with CSKA of the Russian Junior League in 2007-08 and played on the Russian team that won the silver medal at the 2008 World Junior Championships.
General Manager Scott Howson of the Blue Jackets told reporters yesterday that Filatov was bothered by an old injury and wouldn't accompany various other rookies to the NHL Prospects Tournament.
He will stay in Columbus and be evaluated in the next two weeks.
The Blue Jackets open training camp Sept. 19.
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