Newsmakers
Hired The Calgary Flames named Bob Hartley as coach on Thursday. He succeeds Brent Sutter, who left the team in April after three seasons. Hartley coached Colorado for five seasons and won a Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 2001. He agreed to a three-year deal with Calgary.
• Former Pittsburgh Steelers star Hines Ward was hired by NBC Sports to work as an analyst for its NFL and college football coverage. The four-time Pro Bowl receiver retired in March after 14 seasons with the Steelers.
Died Basketball Hall of Famer Jack Twyman, one of the NBA’s top scorers in the 1950s, has died. He was 78. Twyman died Wednesday at a Cincinnati hospice of complications from an aggressive form of blood cancer. Twyman played for the University of Cincinnati, spent 11 seasons in the NBA with the Rochester and Cincinnati Royals and played in six All-Star games.
Scheduled Undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is due in court this morning to surrender and begin a three-month jail sentence in Las Vegas in a domestic violence case. The case stems from a hair-pulling, arm-twisting attack on the mother of three of his children in September 2010. Mayweather pleaded guilty last December to reduced charges.
Injured Sporting Kansas City defender Cyprian Hedrick, the team’s second-round pick in the MLS draft, will miss four months after breaking his left leg. Hedrick will have surgery today to repair a fractured fibula.
Donated The Southeastern Conference and its member schools are donating $100,000 to the Pat Summitt Foundation Fund to help fight Alzheimer’s disease. The Hall of Fame coach stepped down in April, eight months after revealing she had been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, Alzheimer’s type.
Resigned Iowa women’s rowing coach Mandi Kowal resigned after an 18-year tenure, one month after The Associated Press reported on an internal athletic department memo from 2008. The memo, recently made public as part of a lawsuit brought by former coxswain Margaret Krusing, claims workouts were so demanding and poorly supervised that she developed a rare leg condition during 2008 that made it difficult for her to walk.