Bailey takes over Montana State for now
Don Bailey became Montana State’s interim head football coach Sunday, two days after head coach Mike Kramer was fired following the latest in a string of arrests involving current and former players.
Bailey was Kramer’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
Athletic director Peter Fields planned to meet with the coaching staff today to discuss the program in the aftermath of Kramer’s firing Friday.
nfl
Jets’ Miller arrested
New York Jets kick returner Justin Miller was arrested early Sunday and charged with third-degree assault after a fight at a New York City nightclub.
ESPN.com reported that the 23-year-old Pro Bowl returner was arrested after allegedly punching a woman in a nightclub. He was apprehended following a police chase at 4:20 a.m. According to the report, police said Miller swung at a man, but hit the woman when the man ducked out of the way.
•Former Detroit Lions lineman John Gonzaga, who was working in a steel mill when he was signed by the San Francisco 49ers in 1956, has died. He was 74.
Gonzaga died Thursday at his home in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield Township, Mich.
Tennis
Jankovic takes title
In Rome, Jelena Jankovic defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5, 6-1 to win the Italian Open and join Justine Henin as the only three-time winners on the women’s tour this year.
•Milagros Sequera won her first WTA Tour title, defeating Canada’s Aleksandra Wozniak 6-1, 6-3 to claim the championship of the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem in Fez, Morocco.
Miscellany
Defar sets 2-mile mark
Meseret Defar of Ethiopia won the women’s 2-mile run with a world-record time at the Adidas Track Classic in Carson, Calif.
Defar won in 9 minutes, 10.47 seconds, lowering the mark of 9:11.97 set by American Regina Jacobs in 1999.
•Misty May-Treanor broke the AVP Tour’s career victory record for women, teaming with Kerri Walsh to beat Tyra Turner and Rachel Wacholder 21-15, 21-11 and win the Hermosa Beach Open in California.
May-Treanor has 73 titles to move past former playing partner Holly McPeak on the career list. Karch Kiraly has 148 titles.
•In Fiorano Modenese, Italy, Kurt Asle Arvesen won the eighth stage of the Giro d’Italia, beating world champion Paolo Bettini in a sprint finish, and Marco Pinotti retained a 28-second overall lead.
The Norwegian completed the 124-mile course in 4 hours, 44 minutes, 59 seconds for his second career Giro victory.
•Former Australian Open champion Norman Von Nida, who won more than 80 titles worldwide and was a trailblazer for Australian golf, died in Gold Coast, Australia. He was 93.