College Football
Rams have a new leader of defensive flock
FORT COLLINS – Colorado State head coach Mike Bobo promoted Marty English to defensive coordinator on Friday.
English will take over for Tyson Summers, who left to become head coach at Georgia Southern.
A Colorado native, English was the linebackers coach for the Rams in Bobo’s first season with Colorado State. English also served as co-defensive coordinator at Colorado State from 2012-14.
English was in charge of the defense in a 28-23 loss to Nevada at the Arizona Bowl last month.
Bobo said he had “lots of very qualified people interested in this job, but we had a very qualified person on this staff who has been a coordinator in this league.”
Golf
Augusta member green jacket sold in Houston
HOUSTON – An Augusta National Golf Club green jacket from the 1960s donated to a Houston charity in a bundle of clothes has sold for thousands of dollars to a Pennsylvania car dealer.
The Guild Shop sold the jacket Friday following media stories about the highly collectible item.
Shop executive director Gaye Jackson declined to name the jacket’s owner, the buyer or selling price. She’d been advised that the jacket would likely go at auction for $18,000. Jackson says the sale “met expectations.”
Current Augusta National custom is that member green jackets don’t leave the property. New Jersey-based GreenJacketAuctions.com in 2013 sold a jacket, belonging to 1934 Masters champion Horton Smith, for $682,000.
MLB
Former Cardinals executive pleads guilty to hacking
HOUSTON – The former scouting director of the St. Louis Cardinals has pleaded guilty in federal court to hacking the Houston Astros’ player personnel database.
Christopher Correa pleaded guilty Friday to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer, access authorities said dated back several years. The 35-year-old Correa was the Cardinals’ director of baseball development until he was fired last summer.
Cardinals Chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. had blamed the alleged hack on “roguish behavior” by a handful of individuals. No one else was charged.
Skiing
Downhill world champ Kueng ends season early
ADELBODEN, Switzerland – Downhill world champion Patrick Kueng has ended his World Cup season early because of a persistent knee injury.
Kueng says he will focus on being ready for next season, and defending his world title on home snow in St. Moritz.
Kueng, who turns 32 on Monday, damaged the patellar tendon in his left knee during training in July. He returned to start six World Cup races this season. His best finish was ninth in downhill last month in Beaver Creek where he won gold at the world championships last February.
Tennis
Djokovic to play Nadal in final of Qatar Open
DOHA, Qatar – Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal will break their 23-23 head-to-head record when they meet for the 47th time in the Qatar Open final Saturday.
Top-seeded Djokovic beat third-seeded Tomas Berdych 6-3, 7-6 (3) to reach his 16th consecutive final Friday.
The last time the Serbian failed to reach a tournament final was when he lost in the quarterfinals in last year’s Qatar Open.
Nadal advanced to his career 99th final after defeating Illya Marchenko of Ukraine 6-3, 6-4.
Associated Press
