Former Colorado State basketball star and WNBA all-star Becky Hammon will play for Russia at the Beijing Olympics.
The San Antonio Silver Stars guard also plays professionally in Russia. She is not among the 29 U.S. players hoping to make the 12-player Olympic roster.
Hammon twice played for USA Basketball teams, in the Jones Cup before her senior year at CSU and as recently as 2006 on a national team European tour.
Those competitions were not enough to exclude her from playing for another country under the FIBA rules. USA Basketball assistant executive director for communications Craig Miller explained in an e-mail Wednesday “FIBA would not consider the Jones Cup as a ‘main official competition of FIBA.’ ” Under FIBA rules, once a player participates for a nation in a major FIBA competition, he or she may not compete for the national team of another nation.
Associated Press and Natalie Meisler
Rockets, Cowboys to square off.
The University of Toledo and Wyoming have agreed to a two-game series in football. The series will begin Oct. 2, 2010, at Toledo, with Wyoming hosting Sept. 8, 2012.
RMAC inductees announced.
The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference will add six members and five teams to its Hall of Fame after commissioner Joel R. Smith announced the 2008 inductees. The class includes Keith Ancell (basketball referee), Don Cockroft (Adams State football), Bob Cortese (Mesa State and Fort Hays State football coach), Lori Risenhoover-Coppa (Adams State track and field), Danielle Shum-Stowell (Nebraska-Kearney volleyball) and Raul Varela (Colorado Mines basketball). Also being inducted are the 1977, 1979, 1980 and 1981 Adams State men’s cross country teams and the 1981 Adam State women’s cross country team.
