Former Canterbury Park executive John Harty is the new vice president of marketing for Ellis Park Race Course in Henderson, Kentucky.
The Twins’ second spring training game on FOX Sports North is next Monday against Pittsburgh beginning at 12:05 p.m. Minneapolis time.
There are 140 Division I teams out of 346 playing in post-season college basketball tournaments, including 68 in the NCAA field, plus 72 more in three lesser tournaments, the NIT, CBI and CIT.
With some lower quality teams being automatic qualifiers for the NCAA tournament after winning their conference tournaments, there are annually at least a few teams who don’t belong in the NCAA field, but former Gophers coach Jim Dutcher said the NCAA is “never about the best 68 teams in country.”
New Gophers coach Jerry Kill will allow the public to watch spring football practices. March practices at the Gibson-Nagurski Complex will be on March 24 and 25 starting at 2:15 p.m., March 26 at 3:15 p.m., and March 29 and 31 at 2:30 p.m.
Recent Timberwolves acquisition Anthony Randolph, 6-11, 225, has impressive length, arm span and athleticism. He’s mostly played center for the Wolves so far but could be a power forward and perhaps even small forward.
Wolves coach Kurt Rambis said don’t count on the 21-year-old Randolph gaining a lot of weight in the future to become a bigger center. “If you’re expecting him to put on 50 pounds of muscle that rarely happens,” Rambis said.
Rambis was not muscular as an NBA player either. He said that while the Wolves want their players to be as “big, strong as possible,” the objective, too, is not to have extra weight hamper their quickness and ability to run.
Former Gopher Kris Humphries has at least 15 rebounds and scored 11 points or more in each of his last three games for New Jersey, all wins by the Nets.
Hillary Boyce was second overall and Sarah Fleming third last weekend when the St. Olaf women’s Nordic ski team finished first among seven teams at the United States Collegiate Skiing and Snowboarding Association Championships. St. Olaf was second in the Nordic men’s competition.
Registration for the 18th annual William A. Irvin 5K opens tomorrow. To register, runners should visit www.GrandmasMarathon.com. The 3.1-mile run begins at 6 p.m. on June 17 in Duluth and is the first of three major running events during Grandma’s Marathon weekend. Registration remains open for the 35th annual Grandma’s Marathon on June 18, while the entry process for the 21st annual Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon is closed.