Former New Mexico State and Illinois basketball coach Lou Henson is being treated again for cancer but said Wednesday he feels strong and even played golf less than a day after resuming chemotherapy treatments.
“I’ve started taking chemo again. Even though it was a long session, I’m feeling great,” Henson said. “The doctors told me I could do anything I wanted to do today, so I went out and played 18 holes.”
Henson, 75, said he has the same form of intestinal non- Hodgkin’s lymphoma he was diagnosed with four years ago. He resumed chemotherapy with an 8 1/2-hour session Tuesday in Champaign, Ill., where he lives during the summer. Henson said his doctors believe he will need 10 months of treatments.
“It’s a cancer you can’t cure. You can put it into remission,” he said. “One year after my first treatments, it went into remission. It might have come back recently, maybe two or three weeks ago.”
Virginia Tech: Point guard Nigel Munson, considered the likely starter in 2007-08, has been granted a conditional release from his scholarship, coach Seth Greenberg said.
Greenberg declined to disclose the conditions of Munson’s release. Munson had expressed an interest in transferring to a school closer to his Washington, D.C., home because of a personal issue.
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UCLA assistant coach Eric Scott and two other men were out on bail after being arrested on suspicion of residential burglary. Bruins coach Karl Dorrell placed Scott on administrative leave. Scott played at UCLA from 1995-97.
Scott, 32, along with Jesus DeAlba and Timothy Williams, both 23, were booked on suspicion of residential burglary Tuesday and released after posting $50,000 bail each, said Sgt. Tera White of the Los Angeles County sheriff’s Norwalk station.
Auburn: Coach Tommy Tuberville said he has not decided if sophomore linebacker Tray Blackmon will play in the Tigers’ opener against Kansas State on Sept. 1. Blackmon was suspended from the Cotton Bowl game and from spring practice for a number of issues, according to Tuberville. He came back to the team in May.
“I think he’s matured. I think he’s got his ducks in a row,” Tuberville said. “But he has to convince the coaches and the seniors that he will be a team player. We hope he’s there because we like to have our best players on the field.”
