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Virginia center Sene suspended by team
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Published: November 8, 2009
Updated: 11/08/2009 03:05 am
Virginia center Sene suspended by team
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
University of Virginia athletics officials said yesterday that sophomore center Assane Sene has been suspended from the basketball team's first three games for conduct detrimental to the team.
The school didn't say what Sene did to merit the suspension.
Sene will miss Virginia's season opener again Longwood on Nov. 13, and games at South Florida and with Rider. He also will not play in the Cavaliers' closed scrimmage with St. John's today.
Sene, a 7-foot native of Senegal, started in 16 of the 22 games he played in last season. He averaged 2.5 points and 4.6 rebounds per game. Sene also led the team with 35 blocked shots and ranked fifth in the ACC.
Baseball
■ The Minnesota Twins have picked up outfielder Michael Cuddyer's $10.5 million option for 2011.
Cuddyer hit a career-high 32 home runs to lead the team. He also had 94 RBIs and was sixth in the American League with 73 extra-base hits.
When slugger Justin Morneau went out with a back injury in September, Cuddyer moved from right field to first base. He hit .352 with seven homers and 22 RBIs in the next 19 games as the Twins leapfrogged the Tigers and won the AL Central title.
The option is part of a contract Cuddyer signed in 2008. He will make $8.5 million in 2010 and be paid $33.5 million over the life of the four-year deal. If the Twins had declined the option, they would have owed Cuddyer a $1 million buyout.
■ The Yomiuri Giants defeat the Nippon Ham Fighters 2-0 to win the Japan Series in six games.
Catcher Shinnosuke Abe drove in the game-winning run yesterday.
Abe doubled over the head of center fielder Yoshio Itoi to give Yomiuri a 1-0 lead in the second inning at Sapporo Dome. Tetsuya Matsumoto hit a two-out single and scored on an error in the sixth inning to make the score 2-0.
It was the first Japan Series title in seven years for the Giants.
A famous former Giants player won the MVP of the World Series. Hideki Matsui received the honor after the New York Yankees defeated Philadelphia on Wednesday, becoming the first Japanese-born player to win the trophy.
■ Phillies closer Brad Lidge will have surgery on his right elbow on Wednesday.
Lidge is scheduled to have a loose body removed and Dr. Michael Ciccotti also will evaluate his right flexor/pronator tendon.
General manager Ruben Amaro Jr. also said last night that outfielder Raul Ibanez and reliever Scott Eyre will have surgery on Monday. Dr. Bill Meyers will repair Ibanez's sports hernia and Ciccotti will remove loose bodies from Eyre's left elbow.
■ New York City office workers who got carried away during the Yankees' victory parade apparently began tossing files and documents out the window when they couldn't get their hands on confetti.
A financial auditor who attended Friday's the parade told The New York Post that he found all kinds of personal financial documents in the mountains of shredded paper tossed from skyscrapers as the players rode up Broadway in Manhattan.
They included pay stubs, banking data, law-firm memos and court files.
The founder of one financial firm said it reprimanded an "overzealous" employee for throwing records out the window that should have been shredded.
Ticker-tape parades on Broadway are a tradition for champion New York sports teams.
Miscellaneous
■ An overwhelming demand for Olympics tickets appears to have swamped the Web site for the Vancouver Games.
Tickets were to go on sale yesterday morning, but ticket buyers could only get a message saying the link was broken. More than 100,000 tickets to the 2010 Winter Games were to go on sale.
Anyone attempting to call the 1-800 Olympics phone number for help was getting a busy signal.
The tickets were for all events in and near Vancouver, including gold-medal hockey and the opening and closing ceremonies.
About 1.6 million tickets overall are being sold, and organizers are making sure 70 percent of those go to the public.
■ The president of the International Tennis Federation said he thinks Serena Williams will receive a fine but not be suspended for her U.S. Open tirade.
In an interview with The Associated Press yesterday, Francesco Ricci Bitti said a fine would "make much more sense."
Grand Slam administrator Bill Babcock is expected to give his recommendation to the Grand Slam committee, which will likely announce the sanction Monday or Tuesday.
The Grand Slam committee is composed of Ricci Bitti and the four Grand Slam presidents. Ricci Bitti suggested it would be counter productive for the committee to ban Williams, the top-ranked player in the world, from for the Australian Open.
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