Janovsky back with

Marshall basketball

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — John Janovsky is returning to Marshall as the director of men’s basketball operations.

Coach Tom Herrion announced Janovsky’s hiring Wednesday.

Janovsky spent the 2010-11 season as a graduate assistant at Marshall before working as Virginia Tech’s video coordinator this past season.

He also has served as coordinator of basketball operations at Duquesne and as an assistant coach at Indiana, Pa.

Janovsky is a 2004 graduate of Pittsburgh.

 

Tennis referee

faces murder charge

NEW YORK (AP) — A tennis referee accused of beating her 80-year-old husband to death with a coffee mug is headed to Los Angeles to face the murder charge after being arrested in New York.

Lois Goodman said nothing as LAPD detectives escorted her from a Manhattan court Thursday. She wore her navy-blue uniform for the U.S. Open, where she’d been set to work as a line judge.

The 70-year-old Goodman agreed after her arrest Tuesday not to fight extradition to California. Lawyer Guy Oksenhendler says she’s “anxious to defend herself” in California.

Alan Goodman died April 17 at the couple’s condominium. His wife told police he apparently had an accident while she was refereeing a tennis match.

 

Jordan’s son fined

for disturbing peace

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Marcus Jordan, a son of Michael Jordan, was fined $250 and court costs Thursday after pleading no contest to disturbing the peace during an argument with a woman outside a Nebraska hotel last month.

Marcus Jordan, 21, also had been charged with obstructing a police officer, but that was dropped as part of a plea agreement.

He was in Omaha for the U.S. Olympic swim trials July 1 and arrested after police responded to an early-morning call at an Embassy Suites hotel.

According to a police report, an off-duty officer working security for the hotel was trying to subdue Jordan as he argued with two women in the driveway. Jordan was “very animated, intoxicated and uncooperative.”

Jordan is enrolled at Central Florida but no longer a member of the basketball team. He averaged 13.7 points for UCF last season.

 

Golson named Irish

starting quarterback

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said sophomore Everett Golson will start at quarterback in the opener Sept. 1 against Navy in Dublin.

Golson edged junior Andrew Hendrix for the position.

“After a lot of practice, lots of film, lots of evaluation, he won the job,” Kelly said Thursday. “Andrew did a great job, made great improvements. I’m really pleased with the progress of both those young men. It was a tough decision. If things go the way we’re planning it, he’ll play the whole game.”