Isaiah Thomas to coach FIU Former Detroit Piston great Isaiah Thomas has accepted the head-coaching job at Florida International University. Thomas, who had recently coached the New York Knicks, said he would donate his first year’s salary to the FIU athletic program.
In an effort to continue its winning-ways-of-late, Real Salt Lake took on DC United, the team that knocked them out of the playoffs a year ago, and escaped with a 2-1 win. For a team that has been a bottom dweller in Major League Soccer since joining the league in 2005, RSL has made the necessary adjustments to become competitive night in and night out.
Kevin Kruger scored 23 points and Ronald Dupree had a double-double to lead the Utah Flash to a 94-81 victory over the Bakersfield Jam in the first round of the 2009 NBA Development League Playoffs Wednesday at the McKay Center. The first playoff victory in Flash franchise history advances Utah into a second-round home game on Monday, April 20 against the winner of Thursday?s Iowa-Dakota game.
In what seemed to be the first of Utah’s baseball-permitting weather of the season, the Wolverines’ offense was stellar and they beat in-state foe, the University of Utah 8-2. Utah Valley got off to a good start scoring two runs in the bottom of the first, but the Utes would answer, scoring two in the top of the second off of two Wolverine errors and a sac fly.
Wittman Named GWC Female Athlete of the Week UTPA’s J.J. Hernandez was named the Great West Conference Track and Field Male Athlete of the Week, while Utah Valley’s Jazmine Wittman and South Dakota’s Crystal Schiernbeck both shared honors on the women’s side for the week ending April 5, the league office announced Tuesday.
This semester, intramurals have allowed students to compete with members of their own school in their favorite sports, like basketball and soccer, without belonging to an official campus team. It also provided many activities for students to get involved. Though the semester is coming to a close, intramurals still have much to offer students the last few weeks of school, like a golf tournament on April 14, Dodge Ball Night on April 16t, disc golf tournament April 21 and the Stress Bustin’ 5k the April 22.
Huskies roll to national title The UCONN Huskies ended their season of steamrolling anything in their path by beating Louisville 76-54 to claim the national title and another perfect season. Geno Auriemma led his lady Huskies to a 39-0 record and a double-digit margin in every game his team played this season.
Even a hole in a cowboy’s heart can’t stop him from doing what he loves. That’s not a cheesy lyric from the latest country-western hit, but rather simple reality for UVU bulldogger Jake Woolstenhulme. The junior steer-wrestler waited until he was declared the Rocky Mountain region’s steer wrestling champion, and had earned a berth to the Intercollegiate Rodeo National Finals, before undergoing heart surgery last week to repair a condition that has hindered him since high school.
The Wolverines fought hard during last Tuesday’s game against rival BYU but let the game slide losing 9-2. With the game off to a rough start, neither team scored any runs in the first two innings. BYU was the first to reach the scoreboard in the bottom of the third inning.
Shortly before a bad April-fools-joke blanketed the outfield grass with a thin, yet frigid layer of snow, the UVU baseball team fell short in its quest to knock off the University of Utah 9-6 at Brent Brown Ballpark in Orem. The game, which was supposed to be held in Salt Lake, was moved to Utah Valley.
Jace Brinkerhoff… The former 5A MVP at Spanish Fork High School has been a bright spot in the Wolverine lineup in his third season at UVU. The junior third baseman is currently second on the team with a .404 batting average. He has also hit two home runs and has recorded 17 RBIs on the young season.
Calipari accepts Kentucky job Not only did former Memphis coach John Calipari accept the vacant head-coaching job at Kentucky, he also accepted the richest contract of any NCAA coach to-date. His 8-year $31.65 million contract suggests, contrary to Calipari’s opinion, that he is the “Man” in Lexington and the coach who is expected to quickly resurrect the Wildcat basketball program.
Every April, golf’s greatest players meet at Augusta National Golf Course in Georgia to compete on the most majestic course this country has to offer. In other words, the Masters tournament will be played this weekend, and the favorite to win it all is none other than Tiger Woods.
Before apple pie, before baseball, there was the old west and rodeo. Could there be anything more American than rodeo? Rodeo is a compilation of all of the skills required to survive in the rugged old west. If you didn’t perfect those skills, quite simply, you could die.
Real Salt Lake soccer club started things off at home right with a 4 to 1 win Thursday night at Rio Tinto Statium in Sandy vs. the Columbus Crew. The season opener couldn’t have gone any better with three goals by Robbie Findley in minutes 2, 29 and 62 of the home opener.
