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College Baseball
GRAND JUNCTION – A Colorado Mesa University assistant baseball coach has apologized for using what an investigation concluded was an anti-gay remark in front of a gay player who said he eventually left the game because of homophobia.
Sean McKinney apologized Thursday for the remark he made while talking about the 1998 murder of Matthew Shephard in front of players, including Tyler Dunnington. Last week Outsports.com reported that a comment from an unnamed college coach that “we kill gay people in Wyoming” lingered with the former St. Louis Cardinals minor league pitcher the longest.
The school hired a law firm to investigate.
College Basketball
ATLANTA – Georgia Tech fired men’s basketball coach Brian Gregory on Friday, less than 48 hours after another season ended in the NIT.
The move was announced by athletic director Mike Bobinski, who had said a year ago the Yellow Jackets would need to show significant signs of improvement for Gregory to keep his job.
While Georgia Tech made the postseason for the first time in Gregory’s five seasons as coach, that wasn’t enough.
Gregory was dismissed after posting an overall record of 76-86, which included a dismal 27-61 mark in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Meanwhile, Stanford hired University of Alabama at Birmingham coach Jerod Haase as its new basketball coach Friday, a week and a half after firing Johnny Dawkins.
Haase will be formally introduced Monday on The Farm.
College Football
FORT COLLINS – The field at the new on-campus football stadium at Colorado State will remain named after one of the winningest coaches in school history courtesy of a $20 million donation.
The university announced Friday that a donor who wanted to stay anonymous committed funds over the next 30 years to transfer the name “Sonny Lubick Field” from Hughes Stadium to the new multi-purpose stadium that’s set to open for the 2017 season. The announcement was made as the Rams kicked off spring football.
Lubick, who led the Rams to nine bowl games, said in a news release he’s “thrilled.”
NBA
DALLAS – Mavericks forward Chandler Parsons will miss the rest of the season after surgery on his right knee.
The team said Parsons had arthroscopic surgery Friday to address an injury to his right medial meniscus. It is the second year in a row that Parsons’ season has ended prematurely because of right knee surgery.
The latest injury isn’t considered as serious as the one that knocked Parsons out of the first round of the playoffs last season.
Parsons averaged 13.7 points in 61 games this season.
DENVER – The Denver Nuggets have agreed to a multiyear deal with Axel Toupane after seeing enough of the forward through a pair of 10-day contracts.
Toupane (pronounced tu-PON) is averaging 3.0 points and 1.3 rebounds in 11 appearances for the Nuggets this season. Before joining Denver, the 23-year-old native of France suited up in 32 games for the Toronto 905 of the NBA D-League, where he averaged 14.6 point and 5.6 rebounds.
The 6-foot-7, 210-pound Toupane played in the French Pro National Basketball League A from 2011 to 2015.
Associated Press
