Newsmakers

Fri., Oct. 8, 2010

Suspended The attorney for Baylor guard LaceDarius Dunn said the university suspended the star guard from attending classes amid allegations that he hit his girlfriend during a domestic dispute. Attorney Vikram Deivanayagam said Thursday night that the university was following procedure for a student facing a felony charge. The attorney said it was too early to tell whether Dunn would miss the rest of the semester, which would sideline him for the first part of the basketball season.

Replacing Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki will replace American star Serena Williams as No. 1 in the world when the new rankings are released Monday. The 20-year-old will become the first player from Denmark, male or female, to hold the top ranking. Wozniacki is the 20th player to top the rankings since they began in 1975 and the third in the last two years to do so without having won a Grand Slam title, following Dinara Safina and Jelena Jankovic.

Pleaded Former NFL quarterback Chris Simms pleaded not guilty in a New York courtroom to charges he drove his car while high on marijuana, and an officer testified that Simms told him at a checkpoint that he had been smoking. Simms, 29, could face up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine if convicted. Police tested him at the scene for alcohol and it was negative, but they did not test him for drugs.

Interviewed Former Diamondbacks coach Bo Porter interviewed for the Pittsburgh Pirates’ managerial job. Porter was hired by Arizona last winter as third-base coach after five seasons on Florida’s coaching staff. He shifted to bench coach when Kirk Gibson took over as manager at midseason but was one of four Arizona coaches not retained after the season ended. The Pirates fired manager John Russell on Monday after his teams lost 299 games in three seasons.

Died Former University of Kentucky football star Ralph Godfrey Kercheval, the oldest living former National Football League player, died Wednesday in Lexington, Ky., at the age of 98. He was a running back and punter in the NFL for seven years. According to a news release from Kentucky, Kercheval was the first player to be named first-team All-SEC when the league started in 1933.

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