Sports
Email
Print
Sports Briefs: Tennessee forward remains hospitalized
ADVERTISEMENT
Published: September 30, 2009
Updated: 09/29/2009 11:55 pm
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Tennessee forward Emmanuel Negedu remained hospitalized last night as doctors continued to test and observe him after he collapsed after a workout.
Negedu, a 6-7, 218-pound sophomore from Kaduna, Nigeria, collapsed in the Volunteers' weight room and was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center on Monday afternoon.
The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that Negedu was without a pulse when he collapsed and team trainers Chad Newman and Jason McVeigh revived him with a defibrillator in minutes. Tennessee officials wouldn't confirm that Negedu's heart had stopped beating.
Negedu was alert when an ambulance arrived to transport him to UT Medical Center.
Coach Bruce Pearl said on program yesterday on WNML in Knoxville that he was thankful that the incident didn't take place away from Tennessee complex and medical staff.
As a freshman, Negedu played in 33 games, averaging 7.2 minutes, 1.9 rebounds and 1.7 points per game.
In addition to regular physicals, Tennessee performs echocardiograms on all athletes to search for evidence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition blamed for the sudden death or more than a hundred athletes each year.
More basketball
■ Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun is talking to the school about a new multi-year contract.
Kyle Muncy, a spokesman for the program, said yesterday that the sides have been in discussions for some time, and that Calhoun, 67, has expressed a desire to continue coaching at UConn.
ESPN.com, citing sources it did not identify, reported yesterday that talks would extend Calhoun's tenure at UConn into his 70s.
Women's coach Geno Auriemma, who has brought six national championships to Storrs, recently signed a five-year, $8 million deal.
Calhoun who was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005, has a career record of 805-342, good enough for sixth place on the NCAA Division I career wins list. He is 557-205 at Connecticut.
Soccer
■ The United States defeated Cameroon 4-1 yesterday at the Under-20 World Cup in Egypt.
Bryan Arguez scored in first-half injury time, Tony Taylor doubled the lead in the 47th minute, and Dilly Duka made it 3-0 in the 73rd. Banana Yaya converted a penalty kick for Cameroon in the 75th minute after Wake Forest's Ike Opara tugged Brice Owona's shirt and pulled him down in the penalty area. Brian Ownby scored the final U.S. goal in second-half injury time.
Germany (1-0-1) leads Group C with four points after a tie with South Korea (0-1-1). The United States and Cameroon (both 1-1) have three points each. The U.S. will play South Korea on Friday in its final first-round game.
■ FIFA says that the United States' World Cup qualifier at Honduras will be played there Oct. 10 despite turmoil in the country. FIFA's secretary general, Jerome Valcke, said yesterday that the situation in Honduras after the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya in June hasn't caused safety concerns that jeopardize the match. He added that FIFA's stance can change if the situation worsens.
■ North Carolina stayed No. 1 among women's teams, and Maryland and Wake Forest moved into the top three among men's teams in this week's National Soccer Coaches of America Division I polls.
North Carolina led Stanford in the women's poll, with Florida State (5), Boston College (6), Wake Forest (9), Virginia (18) and Maryland (24) also were ranked. In the men's poll, Akron stayed No. 1, Maryland moved from No. 4 to No. 2 and Wake Forest moved from No. 6 to No. 3. Other ranked men's teams of note were: North Carolina (5), Virginia (12), Duke (14), UNC Charlotte (22) and N.C. State (47).
In Division II, Lees-McRae (3) and Wingate (19) were ranked in the men's poll.
■ Mexico is withdrawing its bid to stage soccer's World Cup in 2018 or 2022, leaving the United States as the lone contender from the Americas. Australia, England, Indonesia, Japan, Netherlands-Belgium, Russia, and Spain-Portugal also have submitted bids, and Qatar and South Korea bid for 2022 only. FIFA's executive committee will vote in December 2010.
England and Spain are viewed as the leading contenders for 2018, and the United States is viewed as a top candidate for 2022. The 2010 World Cup will be South Africa and the 2014 tournament will be in Brazil.
■ Brice Taton, a 28-year-old French soccer fan who was attacked in Belgrade by Serbian hooligans ahead of a Europa League match Sept. 17, died yesterday of brain and other injuries. The attack with iron bars in a Belgrade pub left two other French nationals and a Serb slightly injured. Ten people have been arrested and will be charged with first-degree murder, which carries a 40-year prison sentence, a Serbian state prosecutor said.
Golf
■ Verizon has announced that it is ending its association with South Carolina's stop on the PGA Tour after the 2010 season. Steve Wilmot, the director of the Verizon Heritage, said yesterday that the PGA Tour will help seek a new sponsor for 2011 for the tournament at Harbour Town Golf Links. Verizon began its association with the Heritage Classic Foundation in 1987.
■ Arnold Palmer is going back to the White House to meet another president and collect another medal.
Palmer said yesterday that he has been selected to receive a Congressional Gold Medal, an honor that has been around since the American Revolution and recognizes distinguished achievements and contributions.
Beyond his seven major championships, Palmer used his charisma and hard-charging style to make an elite sport popular with the masses.
Palmer said he had been invited to the White House and expected to meet President Barack Obama.
He also received the National Sports Award from former President Bill Clinton in 1993, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from former President George W. Bush in 2004.
■ Jerry Rice, an NFL Hall of Famer, will make his pro golf debut next year as a tournament host and player at a Nationwide Tour event in northern California. The Stonebrae Classic announced yesterday that the Jerry Rice 127 Foundation has been named the primary receiver of the tournament's charity proceeds. Rice agreed to be the host, and he got a sponsor's exemption.
■ Bay Hill in Orlando, Fla., will be a par 72 for the Arnold Palmer Invitational next March after the tournament host decided that it was more fun for the gallery to see golfers making birdies. Bay Hill switched to a par 70 the last three years by converting two par 5s into par 4s, including the 16th, which often was pivotal in deciding the tournament.
Arnold Palmer said yesterday that he wants his course to be challenging and that recent renovations of the bunkers, the greens and lengthening of some holes have made it more difficult.
Miscellaneous
■ Apolo Anton Ohno, a five-time Olympics medalist in speed skating, is among the athletes who will endorse Procter & Gamble Co. products as part of the company's marketing for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Others who will endorse for P&G -- which recently announced sponsorship of the U.S. team for the next two Olympics -- include snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis, speedskater Allison Baver, ice dancer Tanith Belbin, bobsledder Vonetta Flowers and skier Lindsey Vonn.
■ A World Cup swimming competition scheduled in Rio de Janeiro next month has been canceled after organizers failed to come up with enough money. The announcement comes at a delicate moment, with Rio competing against Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo in Friday's vote to select the host for 2016 Summer Olympics.
"There are no financial resources. They cannot find any funding. They say they cannot do it," Cornel Marculescu, the executive director of swimming's governing body, FINA, told The Associated Press yesterday. Marculescu said that Rio told FINA of the decision "two or three weeks ago," and that the city also has pulled out as a host for World Cup meets from 2010 to 2013.
Email
Print
