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Sports Briefs: Seth Curry tells AP he's going to transfer to Duke
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Published: March 30, 2009
RALEIGH -- Seth Curry is joining Coach Mike Krzyzewski and the Duke Blue Devils.
Curry's father, Dell, told The Associated Press last night that his son will transfer to Duke next season.
Seth, the younger brother of Davidson star Stephen Curry, was the Big South freshman of the year at Liberty after leading the nation's first-year players with a 20.2-point average.
He announced plans last week to transfer so that he could play a higher level of competition, and Dell Curry said his son was impressed by the level of interest Krzyzewski and his staff had in Curry, a shooting guard.
Seth Curry will sit out next season, and he will have three seasons of eligibility remaining beginning in 2010-11, when the Blue Devils will need another scoring guard. Gerald Henderson and Jon Scheyer will be seniors next season.
Seth Curry scored 23 and 18 points in his first two college games, and he scored a season-high 35 at VMI in January before the largest crowd in Keydets history. He was held to eight points in his final game with the Flames, an 88-65 loss to James Madison last week in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament.
Dell Curry starred at Virginia Tech in the 1980s -- well before the Hokies joined the conference -- before becoming one of the NBA's most prolific 3-point shooters.
Football
■ Lou Saban, who coached O.J. Simpson in the NFL and ran the New York Yankees for George Steinbrenner during a well-traveled career that spanned five decades, died yesterday. He was 87.
Saban died around 4 a.m. at his home in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., his wife, Joyce, said. He had heart problems for years and recently suffered a fall that required hospitalization, she said.
Saban played football at Indiana University and for the Cleveland Browns of the NFL before embarking on an unmatched head-coaching career that included stops with the Boston Patriots and Buffalo Bills of the old American Football League and the NFL's Denver Broncos, along with college jobs at Miami (Fla.), Army, Northwestern and Maryland.
Saban, who was 95-99-7 in 16 seasons of pro football, also was president of the New York Yankees from 1981-82 and coached high-school football from 1987-89.
Saban shared the last name of another prominent football coach, Alabama's Nick Saban. Joyce Saban said the two men might have been second cousins, but said the families weren't exactly sure whether they were related.
In one of his last jobs, he coached Division III Chowan State in North Carolina, leaving in 2002 after the team went 0-10.
Soccer
■ Ivory Coast's Minister of the Interior has announced on state TV that at least 22 people were killed and 132 were wounded at a stampede before a World Cup qualifying match in the capital's main stadium, in Abidjan.
Desire Tagro, the minister of the interior, said that the stadium was overrun with people who pushed against each other, setting off the panic that led to the stampede ahead of the Ivory Coast-Malawi game yesterday.
Stampedes are common at Africa's crowded stadiums, especially at events that touch national pride, such as the World Cup qualifying matches. Badly-equipped security forces are far outnumbered and are often unable to control the voluminous crowds.
Lacrosse
■ The lacrosse teams from Virginia and Maryland did one better than the basketball teams from Syracuse and Connecticut.
Brian Carroll's goal a minute into the seventh overtime on Saturday night lifted the top-ranked Cavaliers to a 10-9 victory over the Terrapins in the longest Division I men's lacrosse game in NCAA history.
It won't likely make the highlights like the Orange's dramatic six-overtime win over UConn in the Big East tournament a few weeks ago, but the win capped a rally from three goals down and was Virginia's 11th straight to open the season.
Maryland (6-3) appeared to win the game 9 seconds into the first overtime on a goal by Grant Catalino, but an inadvertent whistle by the officials negated the goal.
The Terrapins outshot Virginia 14-6 in overtime, but Virginia goalie Adam Ghitelman kept them from scoring.
He finished with a career-high 22 saves.
■ Australia's Jason Belmonte became the first two-hand style player to win a PBA Tour title, beating top qualifier Michael Fagan 215-201 yesterday in The Bowling Foundation Long Island Classic in West Babylon, N.Y.
Belmonte, 25, developed his style as a toddler at his parents' bowling center in New South Wales, using balls that were too heavy to throw with one hand. By inserts the middle two fingers of his right hand into the ball, and using his left hand to guide and spin the ball, generates hooking power few one-handed players can match.
Belmonte won $25,000 and a tour exemption for the rest of the season. He's the fourth international winner, this season, joining Sweden's Mats Karlsson, Venezuela's Amleto Monacelli and Finland's Mika Koivuniemi.
Fagan, from nearby Patchogue, won $13,000.
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