2011 September at BetLM

Ohio St. RB Involved in Assault

COLUMBUS, Ohio —Ohio State’s stu­dent news­pa­per is report­ing that Buck­eyes run­ning back Jaa­mal Berry was treated and released at a hos­pi­tal after what a police report termed an “assault” on another student. The Ohio State Lantern, cit­ing infor­ma­tion from Ohio State police, reported Thurs­day that Berry was con­fused and dis­ori­ented after “wrestling” with another stu­dent on Wednes­day morn­ing on campus. Ohio State spokesman Jerry Emig told The Asso­ci­ated Press on Thurs­day night, “We are aware of the sit­u­a­tion yes­ter­day. Med­ical pro­fes­sion­als... 

Big East Presidents to Meet Sunday

HARTFORD, Conn. —The pres­i­dents of the Big East mem­ber schools will dis­cuss the future of the con­fer­ence at a meet­ing this week­end, UConn Pres­i­dent Susan Herbst said Wednesday. Herbst, in an email to The Asso­ci­ated Press, said the meet­ing in Wash­ing­ton on Sun­day is a con­fi­den­tial gath­er­ing for con­fer­ence pres­i­dents only and will not involve other uni­ver­sity officials. “We have to talk about the future and how to go for­ward as a strong Big East,” she wrote. Last week, the Big East pres­i­dents and ath­letic direc­tors met at a hastily... 

Kirilenko Ousts Stosur From Pan Pacific Open

Updated Sep 27, 2011 8:21 AM ET TOKYO Maria Kir­ilenko elim­i­nated US Open cham­pion Saman­tha Sto­sur from the Pan Pacific Open on Tues­day, beat­ing the Aus­tralian 6–2, 4–6, 6–4 in the sec­ond round. The sixth-seeded Sto­sur, play­ing for the first time since win­ning her first career Grand Slam title in New York, trailed in the sec­ond set but ral­lied to break her Russ­ian oppo­nent and take the final two games to even the match. The two traded breaks in the third set but Kir­ilenko broke again to make it 5–4 before serv­ing out the match. ”You never want... 

Caldwell Denies Ex-Player’s Claim That He’s Not in Charge

Released by the Indi­anapo­lis Colts on Wednes­day, cor­ner­back Justin Tryon sug­gested that Colts coach Jim Cald­well isn’t call­ing all the shots when it comes to who plays and who doesn’t. “Cald­well wanted to start me but it wasn’t up to him!” Tryon tweeted, accord­ing to ProFootballTalk.com. Another tweet later said: “IM BLESSED!! lay off of Cald­well he’s a great coach! Peace.” Cald­well denied Tryon’s com­ments on Thursday. “Well, prob­a­bly with­out being boast­ful or seem­ing as if that I’m react­ing to that par­tic­u­lar state­ment, but I... 

What the Wizards Should Do When the Lockout Ends…

We’re try­ing to be opti­mistic about the lock­out here at PBT, and as part of that we are look­ing at what all 30 NBA teams should do when the lock­out ends. And we’re stick­ing with when, not if, it ends. To see the full West­ern Con­fer­ence list, click here.Last sea­son in Wash­ing­ton D.C.: For a team with a lot of young, tal­ented play­ers, the Wiz­ards were just flat out bad. They won only 23 games, they were 28th in the NBA in offen­sive effi­ciency, 24th in offense. Defen­sively they blocked shots and not much else. On offense the Wiz­ards didn’t take a lot of... 

Costa and Willis Join Mercedes

Ross Brawn has now added another for­mer mem­ber of the Fer­rari dream team to his Mer­cedes out­fit: Aldo Costa, who worked as tech­ni­cal direc­tor at Fer­rari until May, will join the team, Mer­cedes announced today. Costa was at Fer­rari when Brawn and Schu­macher were there dur­ing the team’s strongest era last decade. “I am delighted to announce that Aldo Costa and Geoff Willis will be join­ing the Mer­cedes GP Petronas team,” said Brawn. “Geoff is a highly respected engi­neer with over twenty years of For­mula 1 expe­ri­ence, and we look for­ward to his arrival... 

Oosthuizen Conquers Kingsbarns for Joint Lead at Dunhill Links

Hav­ing won the Open Cham­pi­onship at the home of golf a lit­tle more than a year ago, one might think Louis Oost­huizen is drawn to links golf. Oost­huizen again showed why with his open­ing round at Kings­barns in the first round of the Alfred Dun­hill Links Cham­pi­onship on Thurs­day. Shoot­ing 6-under 66, Oost­huizen is part of a 4-way tie for the lead at one of the Euro­pean Tour’s most pop­u­lar stops. “Just a nice week to come back and expe­ri­ence every­thing again, and you know, it was good fun  play­ing St. Andrews yes­ter­day with my brother.  Yeah,... 

Banana-Tosser Is “mortified” by His Racist Gesture, Is Pretty Foolish

Chris Moor­house is going down in hockey his­tory as the guy who’ll for­ever be known as the guy that made a dis­gust­ing, racist ges­ture towards Philadelphia’s Wayne Sim­monds by toss­ing a banana at Sim­monds dur­ing a shootout attempt. Whether Moor­house is either com­pletely igno­rant of racist ges­tures, liv­ing a shel­tered life, or adding “bold­faced liar” to his résumé, his attor­ney says that Moor­house had no idea that such a tac­tic was viewed as being racist. The Globe And Mail has the details from Moorhouse’s attor­ney as to what his take is on the... 

Andre Iguodala a Merrill Lynch Intern This Summer

Andre Iguo­dala has a lot of money to take care of — he’s already made $ 44 mil­lion in his career and he has about that much more com­ing to him the next three years (which is why the 76ers shop him around). Most play­ers treat that much money like they’re in an episode of “Entourage” (the early years, before it sucked), so props to Iggy for learn­ing how to take care of and grow that cash. He’s intern­ing his sum­mer at Bank of Amer­ica Mer­rill Lynch, accord­ing to Marc Spears with Yahoo. Iguo­dala shad­owed a ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist and vis­ited the New York... 

Cincinnati Cited for Secondary Violations

Cincinnati’s foot­ball pro­gram com­mit­ted sec­ondary recruit­ing vio­la­tions when mem­bers of its coach­ing staff placed 20 imper­mis­si­ble calls to 12 recruits, the NCAA’s Com­mit­tee on Infrac­tions ruled ear­lier today. The sec­ondary vio­la­tions were part of a much big­ger set of infrac­tions — both major and sec­ondary — com­mit­ted by the school’s ath­letic pro­gram, although most were asso­ci­ated with the women’s bas­ket­ball pro­gram. In all, the self-reported vio­la­tions included over 200 imper­mis­si­ble calls. As a result, Cincin­nati...