Former East High School basketball player Dazzmond Thornton has transferred from Texas Tech to James Madison, according to Internet recruiting sites. A 6-foot-6, 288-pound forward, Thornton averaged 1.2 points and 1.4 rebounds in 10 games as a freshman last season at Texas Tech. At James Madison, he will be reunited with former East High teammate Pierre Curtis, a guard who attended a prep school in North Carolina before signing with James Madison in April.
– Tom Kensler
Rage to pick second in expansion draft
The Rocky Mountain Rage, Colorado’s new Central Hockey League expansion team, will pick second in the June 3 expansion draft after a lottery Tuesday. The Arizona Sundogs will pick first, fourth, sixth, eighth and 10th, leaving the Rage to pick second, third, fifth, seventh and ninth.
The teams will pick from a list of expansion draft players submitted by existing CHL teams.
Bolder Boulder to be run in Iraq, too
Just as the Boston Marathon staged a race for soldiers in Iraq, the Bolder Boulder 10K will stage a race at Camp Victory in Baghdad.
An estimated 600 service runners are preparing to represent many of the 29 countries from the Multinational Force stationed at Camp Victory this Sunday, one day before the race in Boulder.
