INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana High School Athletic Association signed a three-year contract with Indianapolis television station WTTV to broadcast state championship events.
The IHSAA announced Friday that WTTV would be the flagship station for a statewide network of live broadcasts of all championship events in baseball, boys and girls basketball, football and volleyball.
The championships in soccer, softball, wrestling and swimming and diving will be televised on at least a tape-delayed basis.
AUTO RACING
Rain in Gainesville cuts qualifying
Robert Hight raced to the Funny Car lead during a rain-shortened qualifying session in the NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville, Fla. Tony Schumacher, Mike Edwards and Junior Pippin also were qualifying leaders at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event.
BASKETBALL
Area players picked for Top 60 Workout
Five area senior girls were chosen to participate in the Hoosier Basketball Magazine Top 60 Workout Sunday at Marian University in Indianapolis. See Page 3B for participants.
College news
Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun said he intends to sign a new contract with the school he has led to two national championships. … Craig Brackins, a 6-foot-10 junior forward, will skip his final year of eligibility at Iowa State and enter the NBA draft. … Auburn fired coach Jeff Lebo after six years, five of them losing seasons.
COLLEGES
Ex-Indiana AD gets same post at Rice
Rick Greenspan, the former athletic director at Indiana, is the new athletic director at Rice, replacing Chris Del Conte, who left in October to become athletic director at TCU.
FOOTBALL
Female coach to lead D.C. varsity
Natalie Randolph was introduced as the coach at Calvin Coolidge Senior High School in Washington, D.C. She is believed to be the only woman coaching a high school varsity football team in the U.S.
VOLLEYBALL
Mastodons sweep Puerto Rican team
IPFW (8-8) claimed a 3-0 victory Thursday at Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, winning in sets of 30-22, 30-20 and 30-20. The teams play again at 7 p.m. today.
WINTER SPORTS
Roundup
Overall speedskating World Cup champion Shani Davis won his third title of the season at 1,500 meters, finishing in 1 minute, 45.20 seconds in the Netherlands. … Lindsey Vonn won her third consecutive overall World Cup title by winning the Super-G in at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
