Jesse Hunt, whose U.S. men’s slalom team ranked third in the world this year, has been named alpine director for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association.
Hunt will oversee the entire U.S. alpine program, including all elite-level teams.
The men’s slalom and giant slalom team was the lone bright spot in an otherwise dismal alpine skiing season for the United States. Hunt’s prize pupil, Bode Miller, won the silver in the giant slalom and combined event at the Winter Olympics.
– Hermann Maier’s lawyer plans to seek more than $4 million in damages from the driver of the car that collided with the Austrian star’s motorcycle last summer.
Auto racing: Indy Racing League driver Robbie Buhl was released from a Fontana, Calif., hospital after recovering from a concussion he sustained in qualifying for last weekend’s Yamaha Indy 400 at California Speedway.
Baseball: Mace Brown, who pitched for three major-league teams in the 1930s and ’40s and gave up Gabby Hartnett’s famous “homer in the gloamin'” for the Cubs in 1938, died Sunday at his home in Greensboro, N.C., at 92.
Boxing: Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton defended his decision to welcome the Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson fight. “As mayor of this great city,” Herenton said, “I made a business decision. The city is going to benefit enormously.”
Horse racing: Exercise rider Sheri Garcia, 37, died after being thrown from a horse and hitting her head at Pimlico Race Course.
– The 140,000-plus fans at this year’s Kentucky Derby will be screened with magnetic wands when they enter Churchill Downs under beefed-up security in the aftermath of Sept. 11.
