Stanford assistant new Portland head coach
Eric Reveno, a Stanford assistant for the past nine seasons, was hired Monday to rebuild a Portland men’s basketball program that has struggled for decades.
Reveno, 40, the 20th head coach in school history, replaces Michael Holton, who was fired last month after compiling a 54-91 record in five seasons, including a 20-50 mark in the West Coast Conference. Holton, the former UCLA guard and assistant coach, also failed to lead the Pilots past the first round of the conference tournament in any of his five years.
Reveno was an assistant coach under Mike Montgomery. He was promoted to associate head coach under Trent Johnson after Montgomery left to coach the Golden State Warriors.
Developing post players has been a hallmark of Reveno’s work as an assistant. A Stanford center in the late 1980s, Reveno has worked with big men such as Mark Madsen, Jarron and Jason Collins and Curtis Borchardt.
“After a thorough national search, Eric stood out as a perfect fit to come in and develop our basketball program while providing our student-athletes with a quality leader on and off the court,” said the Rev. E. William Beauchamp, the school’s president.
•Fran Dunphy took over for Hall of Fame coach John Chaney at Temple, moving a few miles across Philadelphia after guiding Penn to nine NCAA tournament appearances.
The 57-year-old Dunphy won 10 Ivy League championships and three Big 5 city series titles. He had a 310-163 record in 17 seasons at Penn.
•Tennessee’s Candace Parker scored 17 points to help the U.S. women’s team beat China 87-53 in the Opals World Challenge in Canberra, Australia.
•Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt had arthroscopic surgery on her right shoulder to clean up adhesive capsulitis, or frozen shoulder.
Miscellany
FIFA gets new sponsor
Visa entered a deal with FIFA, making the credit card company a global sponsor for the World Cup and other soccer competitions.
The agreement between Visa International and soccer’s governing body will start in January and give the company exclusive advertising rights through 2014. The deal reportedly is worth $150 million to $200 million.
•Paralympic basketball player Jermell Pennie has accepted a two-year suspension after testing positive for the banned substance formestane the United States Anti-Doping Agency said.