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MMA Today: Dan Henderson looks to leapfrog Lyoto Machida with strong UFC 161 bout bc-mmatoday12(sh) | By: BOB EMANUEL JR. | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Sports Columns (TN), All Other Sports (AO) Jun 12, 2013 3:02 PM By BOB EMANUEL JR. Dan Henderson has been down this path before with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. After Henderson won the middleweight tournament at UFC 17 in 1998, he competed almost exclusively in Japan for nearly a decade. Upon his re-entry to the promotion in 2007, Henderson -- then the PRIDE welterweight and middleweight champion -- lost both title unification bouts. Henderson then departed for Strikeforce, where he won the light heavyweight title. He returned to the UFC for a third time in 2011, and his victory over Mauricio "Shogun" Rua earned him a title shot against UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. The bout fell through after Henderson injured his knee while training for the September 2012 fight. Ultimately the entire UFC 151 event was canceled. Henderson failed to reclaim the top contender's spot earlier this year when he lost to Lyoto Machida. Despite Machida's looming fight with Jones, Henderson could possibly leapfrog him with a strong ...

Palace Malice owner Cot Campbell earns fodder for another book bc-rac-longshot(sh) | By: JOHN JEANSONNE | Source: Newsday | All Other Sports (AO) Jun 10, 2013 11:27 AM By JOHN JEANSONNE The Belmont Stakes would fit nicely into the most recent of the three books Cot Campbell has written: "Memoirs of a Longshot." His horse, Palace Malice, went off at 13-1 odds and came home 3 1/4 lengths ahead of the 14-horse field, leaving Preakness champ Oxbow second and Kentucky Derby winner Orb third. The upset came in veteran horseman Campbell's 86th year, in what he called "the twilight of my career, to put it euphemistically," long after a stint in the Navy, work as a water ski show emcee, a nightclub car parker, sportswriter, apprentice mortician, advertising copywriter and long-ago battle with alcoholism. "I don't think this will accelerate my retirement," Campbell said. "I have cut back. We used to carry 65 horses. We've got 30, 35 now, and I'm just going to play it as it comes along. "God knows, I've had the most wonderful life a human being can have. This is a great chapter in it, so I won't do anything except keep on doing what I'm doing. I ...

Belmont Stakes: D. Wayne Lukas talks training bc-rac-lukas(sh) | By: JOHN JEANSONNE | Source: Newsday | All Other Sports (AO) Jun 6, 2013 12:22 PM By JOHN JEANSONNE The musings, opinions and declarations of D. Wayne Lukas are as close to the delivery of a keynote address for Saturday's 145th Belmont Stakes as anything else thoroughbred racing has to offer. Listen: There will be another Triple Crown winner, Lukas said, "When we get a standout horse in a mediocre year." And possibly if the Kentucky Derby were to insist upon fewer entrants. "The Derby, with 20-horse fields, is such a rough race now," Lukas said. "In the '50s, '60s and '70s, you were running against six to eight horses; that's a whole different deal. When you put 'em out there with 20, boy, it takes its toll. There's no place in the race to get a breather. They're on you all the time. And to come back in two weeks ..." Furthermore, modern breeders "are breeding more for speed and conformation, because that's what sells," Lukas said, "and that's not necessarily a Belmont horse." For now, then, the best we can do is having the winners of the Kentucky Derby (...

MMA Today: Fabricio Werdum looks to move into the UFC-title picture bc-mmatoday05(sh) | By: BOB EMANUEL JR. | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Sports Columns (TN), All Other Sports (AO) Jun 5, 2013 4:07 PM By BOB EMANUEL JR. The top of the Ultimate Fighting Championship's heavyweight division is already set, with former champion Junior Dos Santos to face current champion Cain Velasquez later this year. The rest of the division can gain some clarity Saturday when Fabricio Werdum faces Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira in the main event of "UFC on FUEL TV 10" in Fortaleza, Brazil. Werdum, third-ranked by the UFC, could position himself as the next potential challenger for the title with a win against eighth-ranked Nogueira. Werdum (16-5-1) has won seven of his last nine fights, with the losses coming to Dos Santos and former Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem. During that span, Werdum ended the nine-year winning streak of former Russian star Fedor Emelianenko. He also defeated top-five heavyweights Antonio Silva and Roy Nelson. Nogueira (34-7-1, one no-contest) is 3-3 in his last six fights, with two losses to former two-time heavyweight champion Frank Mir and the ...

Federal investigators join Utah swim abuse investigation bc-swm-abusecharges(sh) | By: AARON FALK | Source: Salt Lake Tribune | All Other Sports (AO) Jun 5, 2013 3:17 PM By AARON FALK While a group appointed by the University of Utah continues to look at the school's swim team and how the athletic department handled ongoing reports of physical and psychological abuse of student athletes, federal investigators have begun to scrutinize as well. The Office of Civil Rights is investigating a complaint involving "allegations of Title VI (race) and Title IX (sex) discrimination relative to the University of Utah swim team," a Department of Education spokesman confirmed. A criminal investigation in Maricopa County, Ariz., revealed in late February set off a chain of events that led to the suspension and eventual dismissal of Utah swim coach Greg Winslow, and a university-sponsored investigation of the school's athletic department followed. With the school's investigation, handled by Salt Lake City attorney Alan Sullivan and Kansas City, Mo., attorney Michael Glazier ongoing, the university declined to comment on the OCR complaint. "While that ...

Patience a virtue for jockeys in Belmont Stakes bc-rac-belmont(sh) | By: ED McNAMARA | Source: Newsday | All Other Sports (AO) Jun 5, 2013 2:52 PM By ED McNAMARA Unlike European grass courses, many of which go uphill, downhill and clockwise, there's not much variety among North American tracks. One very big exception: Belmont Park. It has the continent's largest dirt surface, a circumference of 1-1/2 miles, compared to a mile at Churchill Downs and Pimlico. Tactics that work in Louisville and Baltimore often backfire on Belmont's unique configuration, where patience can mean everything. Gary Stevens, who ended a seven-year retirement in January, will ride Preakness winner Oxbow in Saturday's 145th Belmont Stakes. The 50-year-old Hall of Famer calls Belmont Park his favorite track. Despite three Belmont wins, he's not overconfident. "It's a big ocean there, and I just want to reacquaint myself," Stevens said. "It's a tricky place. It may look simple, but it's not simple. I think the best horse normally wins at Belmont, other than jockey error." Racing analyst Richard Migliore rode 1,352 winners there. "The five-eighths ...

Mayo Clinic swings for the fences with sports-medicine strategy bc-sportsmed-mayo(sh) | By: JACKIE CROSBY | Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Health and Fitness (AH), All Other Sports (AO) Jun 4, 2013 1:32 PM By JACKIE CROSBY The Mayo Clinic is making a big play to attract ailing athletes and weekend warriors with aching knees to its campus. The hospital system plans to open a 22,000-square-foot sports medicine facility in Rochester, Minn., next spring that will double its existing practice. The center aims to be a sort of high-tech medical playground that will help the injured get back in the game and the healthy hone their skills. "A lot of people think of Mayo as the last resort," said Dr. Edward Laskowski, co-director of Mayo's Sports Medicine Center. "We want to change that." The center is part of the Mayo Clinic's broader strategy of becoming a "destination" -- not just for rare and complex diseases, but for exercise-related injuries, as well. Sports medicine is a fast-growing and highly competitive field among hospitals and free-standing surgery centers, as athletes of all ages and abilities seek out the specialized care needed to stay active. "It can be a lucrative market,"...

Andrews Institute an oasis for rehab bc-acl-rehab-oasis(sh) | By: TOM ROCK | Source: Newsday | Health and Fitness (AH), All Other Sports (AO) May 31, 2013 3:00 PM By TOM ROCK On a spring day, there are surfers and sunbathers and assorted other spring-breakers making their carefree way up and down sunny Gulf Breeze Parkway. They don't realize that behind a thin line of hedges is the NFL's most popular quarterback throwing passes, with his dreadlocks bouncing up and down on each hurl. Robert Griffin III rehabbed from an ACL reconstruction at the Andrews Institute, the home base of surgeon James Andrews, who performed the procedure and is overseeing his return to the Washington Redskins. Griffin probably is the most recognizable of the many professional athletes who come in and out of the facility, but even he has a level of anonymity here. "For the athletes, it's their one safe haven," said Jamie Nemith, one of the performance consultants at Athlete's Performance, a training center that's part of institute. "We're here to serve you." It has everything an injured athlete could need. Griffin had his knee surgery performed in a building ...

ACL injury not as big a draft-day deterrent for NFL teams anymore bc-acl-draftday(sh) | By: TOM ROCK | Source: Newsday | Health and Fitness (AH), All Other Sports (AO) May 31, 2013 3:00 PM By TOM ROCK Each year, roughly 6 percent of the athletes who attend the NFL scouting combine already have a reconstructed ACL. A study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine in 2009 found there was no difference in length of career or number of games played for players who came into the league with a previous ACL reconstruction. By comparison, those who had another common knee injury and underwent a meniscectomy had careers that were on average one and half years and 23 games shorter than players without previous surgery. In other words, history of an ACL injury before entering the NFL does not affect the length of a career. The tolerance by NFL front offices has changed drastically regarding players with ACL injuries. "I think modern medicine, the modern technology of getting these guys back on the field is so much better than it has been in the past," New York Giants general manager Jerry Reese said, when asked about the prospects of players such as South ...

ACL injuries no longer doom football careers bc-acl-overview(sh) | By: TOM ROCK | Source: Newsday | Health and Fitness (AH), All Other Sports (AO) May 31, 2013 2:55 PM By TOM ROCK At one time, a torn anterior cruciate ligament was a career-ending injury in football. Thanks to improvements in surgical procedures and new rehabilitation techniques, players seem to be coming back faster, and sometimes better, than ever - though it remains a devastating injury. According to Kevin Wilk, a physical therapist at Champion Sports Medicine in Birmingham, Ala., patients will walk on treadmills submerged in water that alleviate about 25 percent of the body's weight, move on to running on zero-gravity treadmills that use contained air to buoy an athlete like a hovercraft, and eventually graduate to running on solid ground. Adrian Peterson returned to the Vikings for the 2012 season, six months after suffering an ACL tear, and came within a first down of breaking the NFL's single-season rushing record. South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore's knee was mangled in late October, but he drew an ovation from scouts at his pro day this spring when he was ...

A day in the life: Training camp with UFC's Chris Weidman bc-mma-weidman(sh) | By: MARK LA MONICA | Source: Newsday | All Other Sports (AO) May 31, 2013 10:35 AM By MARK LA MONICA Soon, his likeness will hover over Times Square and let the passers-by in New York City know that he's fighting Anderson Silva July 6 in Las Vegas. For now, though, Chris Weidman can move among the Manhattan masses in relative anonymity. Challenger still, not yet a champion. Each day of training camp leading into his middleweight title shot at UFC 162 is different in its details. One day could bring sparring and cardio, another could involve Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or biking, weightlifting or wrestling, or some combination of everything. Each day of training camp is the same in his dedication and determination. The workouts may change, but Weidman, 28, pushes himself to be better than yesterday. Title shots don't pop up often for most MMA fighters, and certainly not against Silva (33-4, 17-0 UFC), the man most consider the greatest mixed martial artist in the sport's history. In Silva's 10 straight title defenses, he has fought the same opponent -- Chael ...

MMA Today: Fallon Fox continues climb toward MMA acceptance bc-mmatoday29(sh) | By: BOB EMANUEL JR. | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Sports Columns (TN), All Other Sports (AO) May 29, 2013 3:50 PM By BOB EMANUEL JR. When Fallon Fox sat in a movie theater to watch "42" earlier this year, she was struck by the similarities between her career in mixed martial arts and Jackie Robinson's ascent in Major League Baseball. Robinson broke the color barrier and became the first African-American to participate in baseball's highest division. Fox faces a different -- but also steep -- climb in her effort to gain acceptance in her sport. Fox, one of the most controversial figures in MMA, was born a male and, in 2006, underwent gender-reassignment surgery. "When I was watching it, there were a lot of similarities between his situation and my situation now, especially the part where the announcers were talking about how black people have an unfair advantage over white baseball players because they felt that black people were field-grown and were a different shape or something which gave them an unfair advantage because of their bone structure," Fox said. "That's the same argument that ...

UNC baseball caps whirlwind weekend with No. 1 national seed bc-bbc-unc(sh) | By: ANDREW CARTER | Source: Raleigh News and Observer | All Other Sports (AO) May 28, 2013 12:00 PM By ANDREW CARTER After learning that North Carolina would be the No. 1 national seed for the first time in the NCAA baseball tournament, Mike Fox began organizing his media interviews: one on Tuesday morning, another that afternoon. The requests kept coming in. For now, though, Fox, in his 15th season as the Tar Heels' coach, sought a bit of rest. When he greeted media members after the tournament selection show, he caught a glimpse of a clock and said, in jest, "Is it 1:20 p.m., or a.m.?" It'd be understandable if he'd lost track, with what UNC had endured the past few days. The Tar Heels' 12-7 victory on Friday night against Clemson ended early Saturday morning, after 14 innings. On Saturday night, UNC's 2-1 victory against N.C. State ended at about 2 a.m. on Sunday after 18 innings -- the longest game in ACC tournament history. And then, finally, came the 4-1 victory on Sunday against Virginia Tech in the tournament championship game. "It kind of hits you kind of the day ...

Division I men's lacrosse Final Four preview bc-lacrosse-preview(sh) | By: BOB HERZOG | Source: Newsday | All Other Sports (AO) May 24, 2013 12:15 PM By BOB HERZOG Lacrosse royalty collides in one game, coaching royalty in the other. It's Final Four weekend for men's college lacrosse and the matchups in Philadelphia are intriguing. In Saturday's opener, Duke, which has reached seven consecutive Final Fours, faces Cornell, in a game matching two of the nation's highest-scoring teams. "We look at Cornell as an ACC team," Duke coach John Danowski said. "They are athletic and talented -- like Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia." The Big Red features attack Rob Pannell (Smithtown West), the nation's second-leading scorer with 95 points (53 assists) who is six points away from the NCAA all-time career scoring record, and Steve Mock (Huntington), the nation's leading goal-scorer (59). Duke has five players who have scored at least 25 goals. In the second semifinal game, top-seeded Syracuse, more of a defensive team the last couple of years, must try to stop high-scoring Denver, a relative newbie in the sport whose coach, ...

Matt Serra, former UFC champ, 'walking away' from MMA bc-mma-serra(sh) | By: MARK LAMONICA | Source: Newsday | All Other Sports (AO) May 23, 2013 2:05 PM By MARK LAMONICA Matt Serra felt pain while sitting in the corner during an MMA fight. Nothing unusual for the lifelong fighter, except for one thing: he wasn't the one fighting. Instead, the former Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight champion from East Meadow was cornering one of his fighters at Ring of Combat in Atlantic City April 5. It was a pain that would put Serra in the emergency room for four days, lead to the surgical removal of one of his ribs and now, cause his exit from mixed martial arts competition. "It's hard to say it," Serra told Newsday. "It's like you can't say it, even though it probably is true. I would love to put closure on my career with one last fight at the Garden, but at the same time, if that doesn't happen, I definitely consider myself done. It's hard to say the 'R word.' I might never say the 'R word.'" That thrill of fight night, when the adrenaline pumps through the veins, the fans scream and invincibility consumes the brain and body -- ...

MMA Today: Cain Velasquez 'ready for everything' Antonio Silva might throw bc-mmatoday22(sh) | By: BOB EMANUEL JR. | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Sports Columns (TN), All Other Sports (AO) May 22, 2013 2:45 PM By BOB EMANUEL JR. A year ago, Cain Velasquez's bout against Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva was about redemption. Velasquez suffered the first loss of his career six months earlier when Junior dos Santos defeated him for the Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight title. Silva's career was stuck in neutral with two losses in five fights, including his previous outing against Daniel Cormier in the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix in 2011. Velasquez won the fight with a first-round TKO of Silva and, seven months later, recaptured the title with a decision over dos Santos. Saturday night in the main event of UFC 160 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Velasquez and Silva will meet again -- with much higher stakes. Velasquez will defend his title for the first time, and Silva -- fresh off a pair of victories, including one over former Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem -- aims to begin his own championship pedigree. "This is a whole new fight," Velasquez ...

American conference looking to 'brand new canvas' to launch league's branding, marketing bc-american-conf(sh) | By: KYLE VEAZEY | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | All Other Sports (AO) May 21, 2013 1:20 PM By KYLE VEAZEY Mike Aresco, the commissioner of the new American Athletic Conference, was meandering through bullet points here Monday afternoon when he struck upon something perhaps most instructive to how his new league will be perceived: "You have a canvas that's brand new," Aresco said. Therein lies the opportunity for the new league the University of Memphis will join on July 1. It's what's left of the Big East after high-profile departures of schools like Louisville (to the Atlantic Coast Conference) and the breakaway of the seven basketball-only Catholic schools that will retain the Big East name. A new name equals a new marketing and branding strategy, so they were significant components of Monday's first of three days of annual meetings for the league, held at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club. League athletic directors heard from Ketchum, a public relations agency brought in to consult the league on its image, and saw the final draft of new logos. They were of particular ...

DeCock: 90-year-old former Ranger takes aim at track record bc-90yrold-racer(sh) | By: LUKE DECOCK | Source: Raleigh News and Observer | All Other Sports (AO) May 21, 2013 1:05 PM By LUKE DECOCK All Charles Ross had to do to set a world record was finish the race. For him, in this event, the real challenge was making it to the starting line. No one in his age group had ever completed the 2,000-meter steeplechase, at least officially. He would give it a shot Saturday, at N.C. State's Derr Track, in the 43rd edition of the Southeast Masters track and field meet. All he had to do was show up, make it five times around the track, over a few hurdles and across the finish line. Doesn't sound like much, unless you're 90 years old. "You better finish," Bob Weiner, 66, told Ross as they gathered at the starting line. "It's a world record if you do." "I know," Ross replied. "I've finished every one I ever ran in." Ross is a spry 90, lean and muscular with a square jaw, a member of the Army Ranger Hall of Fame. That isn't the kind of honor one receives merely for finishing, although surviving three wars certainly clears that bar. He fought in World War II. He ...

Moulton: John McCain's bill could blow up sports TV bc-tv-sports-bundle(sh) | By: DAVID MOULTON | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Television (ET), Sports Columns (TN), All Other Sports (AO) May 21, 2013 12:40 PM By DAVID MOULTON Do you remember Bell Telephone? Until 1984, "Ma Bell" as many called it, provided telephone service to the country and most everyone was OK with that. Everyone except the U.S. Justice Department, which ruled that Bell Telephone was a monopoly and ordered that it be broken up. ESPN is not a monopoly. But it is as big as one. Because of that, it is the most expensive group of channels on our cable and satellite systems. Even though most people don't watch ESPN, they have to pay for it anyway. For now. Sen. John McCain first tried to change this in 2006. He's back at it. The Arizona Senator has introduced another bill that would blow up the current system of "bundling" cable channels and let customers pay for select channels a la carte. Sounds simple and, dare I say, fair. But if McCain is successful (along with a current lawsuit where Cablevision is suing Viacom to not have to carry certain channels to get others) it could have staggering ramifications in the ...

MMA Today: Luke Rockhold risks streak in UFC debut bc-mmatoday15(sh) | By: BOB EMANUEL JR. | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Sports Columns (TN), All Other Sports (AO) May 15, 2013 12:45 PM By BOB EMANUEL JR. Luke Rockhold's past year in Strikeforce included a pair of canceled fights and great uncertainty. But when he signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship earlier this year, his immediate career path became clearer. Saturday night, the final Strikeforce middleweight champion will put his nine-fight winning streak on the line in his UFC debut when he faces 17-year MMA veteran Vitor Belfort in the main event of UFC on FX 8. The event, held at the Arena Jaragua in Jaragua do Sul, Brazil, will be shown live at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. "The last year or so in Strikeforce wasn't very exciting," Rockhold said. "I lost a lot of interest in Strikeforce and started looking to fight for the UFC. Growing up as a kid, I always watched the UFC. The UFC was the first show I watched, and that's where I wanted to be ... I couldn't be in a better situation. I'm excited about my future in the UFC." Rockhold's UFC start will not be easy. Belfort, 22-10, is 8-2 in his last 10 ...

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