Newsmakers
Postponed The post-trial hearing for Barry Bonds was postponed from Friday to June 17, giving prosecutors more time to consider whether to retry the home run king and allowing the former player’s lawyers another month to sharpen their arguments for throwing out the lone conviction. The seven-time N.L. MVP was convicted in San Francisco of one count of obstruction of justice April 13 for giving an evasive answer in 2003 to a grand jury investigating the distribution of performance-enhancing drugs.
Indicted A grand jury in Opelika, Ala., indicted the man accused of poisoning the oak trees at Auburn’s Toomer’s Corner, where fans celebrate big wins and hundreds gathered after the Tigers won the football national championship on Jan. 10. Harvey Updyke Jr., 62, was indicted on four felony charges and two misdemeanors by a Lee County grand jury. He faces two felony counts of first-degree criminal mischief, two felony counts for unlawful damage, vandalism or theft of property from a farm animal or crop facility and two misdemeanor counts of desecrating a venerated object, according to court documents.
• Four former Auburn football players have been indicted on felony robbery and burglary charges by a grand jury in Opelika, Ala. Court documents posted online show that Michael McNeil, Antonio Goodwin, Shaun Kitchens and Dakota Mosley were indicted on five counts of first-degree robbery, one count of first-degree burglary and one count of misdemeanor third-degree theft of property.
Hired BYU basketball coach Dave Rose completed his staff by hiring Mark Pope as an assistant. Pope comes to BYU after serving as an assistant for one season at Wake Forest under Jeff Bzdelik. He fills the spot vacated when Dave Rice left to become head coach at UNLV.
Announced The openly transgender member of the George Washington women’s basketball team, whose groundbreaking season was cut short by a pair of concussions, said he won’t play in his senior year. The school announced that Kye Allums “has decided that it is in his best interest to no longer participate in intercollegiate athletics.”