Fast Break
College basketball
Redmon picks Washington
Lewis and Clark senior Katelan Redmon has made an oral commitment to play women’s basketball for the University of Washington.
Redmon, who transferred to LC last year from Mt. Spokane and helped the Tigers to their first State 4A championship, made her decision public on Wednesday.
Her coach and uncle, Jim Redmon, said numerous colleges were in the mix, including Gonzaga University, and several from the Pac-10.
“I went with my gut on the decision,” Katelan said. “I never go against my gut.”
Redmon has been a three-year Greater Spokane League starter and has scored 781 points overall.
Track and field
Backup test clears Jones
NEW YORK – The backup drug test for sprinter Marion Jones came back negative, clearing the five-time Olympic champion of doping allegations that have dogged her for the past month, her attorneys said Wednesday night.
“I am absolutely ecstatic,” Jones said in a statement released by her lawyers. “I have always maintained that I have never ever taken performance enhancing drugs, and I am pleased that a scientific process has now demonstrated that fact.”
Jones tested positive for the banned endurance enhancer EPO on June 23. She withdrew from a meet in Switzerland last month and shortly after that, reports of a positive test were revealed.
NFL
Gumbel leaves NFL doghouse
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Bryant Gumbel will keep his play-by-play job with the NFL Network despite saying on his HBO show that Paul Tagliabue should show his successor as commissioner “where he keeps Gene Upshaw’s leash.”
“By making the docile head of the players union his personal pet, your predecessor has kept the peace without giving players the kind of guarantees other pros take for granted,” Gumbel said on his HBO show.
Roger Goodell, who officially took over for Tagliabue last Friday, said he met with Gumbel to discuss his remarks about Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Association.
“We had a good discussion,” said Goodell. “I feel comfortable and he will stay on.”