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Sports Briefs: 'Canes, seeking help, will bring up Boychuk
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Published: November 6, 2009
Updated: 11/06/2009 12:50 am
RALEIGH -- The reeling Carolina Hurricanes are hoping last year's first-round draft pick, Zach Boychuk, can help them snap their long losing streak.
The Hurricanes said yesterday that they are recalling Boychuk, a center, from their AHL Albany affiliate and said he will be available to play tonight against Toronto. Boychuk, 20, has four goals and five assists in his first full professional season with Albany.
He was taken with the 14th pick in the 2008 Draft and he played in two games with the Hurricanes last October before he was returned to his junior team.
Carolina, an Eastern Conference finalist last season, has lost 10 straight and is 0-6-2 on the road.
Basketball
■ Men's basketball coaches in the Southern Conference have picked Western Carolina and College of Charleston as the favorites to win division titles.
Western led the North Division voting with 10 first-place votes and 64 points. Appalachian State (one first-place vote, 55 points) was second and followed by Samford (44), Chattanooga (39) and Elon and UNC Greensboro (22 each).
In the South, Charleston had eight No. 1 votes and 63 points to finish ahead of Wofford (3, 54), Davidson (1, 48), The Citadel (36), Furman (24) and Georgia Southern (21).
■ Jackie Moore, a 28-year-old assistant women's basketball coach at Eastern Illinois, died Wednesday night at a hospital after collapsing as she started a workout. Rich Moser, a school spokesman, says doctors said that Moore's heart "just stopped" and that an autopsy is planned.
Moore was in her third season at the school. She graduated from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tenn., in 2005, and was from Windsor, Ontario.
■ Indiana freshman Bawa Muniru has been cleared by the NCAA to play this season.
The Hoosiers had been waiting for the NCAA's eligibility center to make its ruling on Muniru, a 6-11, 260-pound center from Tumu, Ghana. Muniru played high-school ball the past two seasons in the U.S. The decision takes effect immediately.
Coach Tom Crean said he understood it would take the NCAA time to do a thorough review and appreciated the work done both by the eligibility center and compliance officials at Indiana.
The Hoosiers host St. Joseph's in their final exhibition Monday night, then open the season at home against Howard on Nov. 13.
Miscellaneous
■ A Belgian anti-doping tribunal has suspended Yanina Wickmayer, a semifinalist at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, for one year for failing to report her whereabouts to anti-doping officials three times.
The Flemish regional tribunal said in a statement yesterday that the minimum one-year sanction is "reasonable." The suspension takes immediate effect, but Wickmayer can appeal.
Wickmayer has denied any wrongdoing and said on her Web site that she plans to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. She is currently playing in the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Bali.
■ Leonard Chuene, the South African track president who lied about his role in gender tests of runner Caster Semenya, and the rest of Athletics South Africa's 12-member board were suspended yesterday pending investigations into their handling of the case. The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee, announcing the suspensions in a statement, appointed one of its members, Ray Mali, as ASA's administrator
The Olympics committee also said its officials were considering action against international track officials for their "disregard of Ms. Semenya's rights to privacy."
The statement did not elaborate. Semenya won the 800-meter world championships in August after the IAAF said it had ordered gender tests. Chuene said he lied about his knowledge of the tests to protect Semenya's privacy.
■ The widow of boxing champion Arturo Gatti lost her bid for $140,000 she was seeking from the boxer's estate, but was awarded $37,500 yesterday to cover legal fees and child-care costs. A superior court justice also allowed Amanda Rodrigues to enter their condominium in Montreal to collect her belongings. Rodrigues is in a legal battle with Gatti's family over his estimated $5.6-million estate.
Gatti was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a posh Brazilian seaside resort in July. Brazilian police initially ruled the death a homicide and detained Rodrigues, then later ruled the death a suicide.
■ Lou Filippo, a World Boxing Hall of Famer who judged 85 world-champion fights and had small roles in the Rocky movies, has died at 83. Hall of Fame Treasurer Josie Mejia said that Filippo suffered a stroke and died Monday at a hospital in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey. Filippo, who had judged a fight only two weeks ago, played the fight announcer or referee in five Rocky films.
■ Floyd Landis finished seventh in today's stage of the Tour of Southland, moving into 14th place overall after seven of nine stages.
Landis finished the 102-mile ride between Winton and Te Anau on New Zealand's South Island 4 seconds behind stage winner Patrick Bevan. Landis, an American, is 11 minutes, 56 seconds behind overall leader Heath Blackgrove of New Zealand.
Landis was among the leading group throughout today's stage and was able to hold onto a prominent placing in a sprint finish. The tour concludes with two stages Saturday.
Landis won the 2006 Tour de France but was disqualified and banned for two years when doping tests revealed elevated levels of testosterone.
He returned to racing in January.
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