The starting offensive lineman suffers a lower-leg injury, but the school doesn't release details on how it occurred.
View full sizeJeff SpikesPainesville Harvey graduate Jeff Spikes, a two-year starting offensive lineman for Kansas, will miss the 2010 season.
Coach Turner Gill said Tuesday that the 325-pound Spikes suffered a lower leg injury. No further details about his injury were released.
Spikes started all 13 games as a freshman in 2008 and 10 games in 2009. His 23 career starts was third among all active players. He played right tackle for the first eight games of 2009 before moving to right guard for the remainder of the season.
Wolverines' Carr retiring: The University of Michigan says ex-football coach Lloyd Carr is retiring as the Wolverines' associate athletic director Sept. 1.
Carr coached Michigan's football team from 1995 to 2008 and led the Wolverines to a national championship in 1997.
Carr came to Michigan in 1980 as an assistant to head coach Bo Schembechler, and remained as an aide under Gary Moeller.
As Michigan head coach, Carr led his teams to a record of 122-40 (81-23 Big Ten), with five conference titles.
Carr stepped down as coach in 2008, making way for Rich Rodriguez.
Stricklin extension: Kent State baseball coach Scott Stricklin signed a contract extension through 2014, Athletic Director Joel Nielsen announced.
View full sizeKent State baseball coach Scott Stricklin.The Kent State alum and 2006 Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year has guided his alma mater to a 222-128 overall record, five MAC championships and three NCAA Tournament appearances in six seasons.
Stricklin, 38, directed the Golden Flashes to their second consecutive NCAA Tournament berth in 2010. Ranked 18th nationally to start the year, the Flashes won 43 games in 2009 -- the third most in school history -- en route to eliminating nationally ranked Cal Poly in the NCAA Tempe Regional.
Learfield award: For the 10th time in the past 11 years, Kent State was the top Mid-American Conference finisher in the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup. The cup is presented annually to the best overall collegiate athletics programs in the country in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III and the NAIA. The Flashes finished 71st nationally. Stanford finished first, and Ohio State eighth, the only Ohio Division I school to finish ahead of KSU.
Honor for Hlavacek: Notre Dame College Athletic Director Sue Hlavacek was named the 2009-10 NAIA Northeast Region Athletic Director of the year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.
She also earned the Administrator of the Year Award from the National Association of Collegiate Women's Athletic Administrators.
Hlavacek has been with NDC, in South Euclid, since 1996, and has played an instrumental role in the growth of the athletic program from four sports when she began to 23.
Hlavacek is a Cleveland native and a 1980 graduate of Cleveland State University, where she lettered in each of her four years in both basketball and volleyball and was named Outstanding Female Athlete of the Year three times.
NDC on radio: Notre Dame College and ESPN Cleveland have partnered to broadcast NDC football games and other sports events, starting this fall. The agreement includes the broadcast of all 11 games of NDC football's upcoming inaugural season. The Falcons' Aug. 28 opener against Mercyhurst (Pa.) will be broadcast live on WKNR AM/850, and ensuing games will be aired on KNR2 AM/1540. All 11 games will be streamed live on espncleveland.com.
The partnership also includes the streaming of 10 basketball games on espncleveland.com; and a weekly show with NDC football coach Adam Howard on KNR2.