Newsmakers
Released Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun is out of the hospital, a day after breaking five ribs in a bicycle accident in Hartford, Conn. Calhoun, 67, biked at least 16 miles after hitting a pothole and falling during Saturday’s 50-mile annual Jim Calhoun Cancer Challenge Ride bike ride. He completed the ride but collapsed while talking to friends near the finish line in Simsbury. After being released from the hospital Sunday, Calhoun said he planned to “go home and rest for a couple of days.” Calhoun is a three-time cancer survivor. Organizers say the ride may have raised up to $300,000 for Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at the hospital.
Postponed Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s comeback has been postponed because the boxer suffered a rib injury while training. Golden Boy Promotions said Mayweather’s July 18 fight against Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas will be rescheduled. Details about Mayweather’s injury were not immediately available.
Withdrawn Former Masters champion Trevor Immelman has withdrawn from the U.S. Open because of tendinitis in his left wrist and elbow. Immelman was replaced by Clinton Jensen, the first alternate from sectional qualifying in Florida. The U.S. Open begins Thursday at Bethpage Black.
Struggling Champions Tour golfer Ken Green, who was injured in a recreational vehicle crash in Mississippi that killed his brother and girlfriend, will have his lower right leg amputated, his agent said. Kevin Richardson said Green is struggling with the “double whammy” of the deaths and his own career-threatening injuries. Richardson said doctors will remove his leg below the knee today after determining it would take two years of surgery to repair a limb that wouldn’t function well before Green could walk again.
Leaving WNBA star Becky Hammon will miss two games for the San Antonio Silver Stars to play for Russia in the European women’s basketball championships. The American-born Hammon earned a bronze medal playing for Russia in the Olympics last summer. She became a naturalized Russian citizen after being essentially passed over for a spot on the U.S. team.