Fast Break
Football
UI’s Curtis wins national award
Bob Curtis, the longtime broadcaster for the University of Idaho, is the co-recipient of the Chris Schenkel award given by the National Football Foundation on Thursday.
Curtis shares the award with Dick Galiette of Yale University.
The award is named in honor of its first recipient, network broadcaster Chris Schenkel, and seeks to recognize a sports broadcaster who has enjoyed a long and distinguished career broadcasting college football at a single institution.
The awards will be presented at the NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 9 in New York City.
Curtis’ voice was synonymous with Vandals football for nearly five decades and he was named the Idaho Sportscaster of the Year 33 times. Idaho hired Curtis in 1958 as its play-by-play announcer for football and basketball. He remained in the position until his retirement in 2004, following his 540th consecutive football broadcast.
Track and field
Cuban hurdler breaks world mark
Dayron Robles of Cuba set a world record in the 110-meter hurdles, clocking 12.87 seconds at the Golden Spike meet at Ostrava, Czech Republic .
The 21-year-old Robles was 0.01 seconds faster than the previous mark, set by China’s Liu Xiang in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2006.
NFL
Man found guilty in Super Bowl plot
A man accused of planning a massacre at this year’s Super Bowl was convicted Wednesday of federal charges.
Kurt Havelock faced six counts of mailing threatening communications in U.S. District Court in Phoenix.
According to court records, Havelock bought an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition from the Scottsdale Gun Club on Jan. 30.
The documents say Havelock wanted to kill people at the Feb. 3 Super Bowl in Glendale.
Havelock, however, had a change of heart. He called his parents, and they persuaded him to turn himself in to Tempe police.
Coming Sunday
Old ballpark turns 50
Avista Stadium at the Spokane County Fairgrounds, home of the Spokane Indians minor league baseball club, is in its 50th year of operation.
We take a look back at how it came to be and some of the bigger moments for the old ballpark.
We will also take a first look at the 2008 Spokane Indians, who open the season at home Tuesday.
Check it out in Sunday’s sports section.