Bobby Brown of Breckenridge followed up his two gold medals at the X Games last week by winning the freeski slopestyle final Friday at the Winter Dew Tour’s stop at Mount Snow, Vt.
The 18-year old graduate of Cherry Creek High School started his run with a flip off the rail, then unleashed a variety of spins and ended his run with a double cork 1260, scoring a 91.75. Runner-up Andreas Hatveit of Norway scored an 89.00, which was good enough to crown him the overall Dew Cup champion for the 2009-10 season. Brown finished second in the season standings.
Davis leaves Wyoming basketball.
A second player has left the Wyoming men’s basketball team this season. Coach Heath Schroyer announced Friday that A.J. Davis left the Cowboy program for personal reasons.
Davis, a sophomore from Columbus, Ohio, had played in all 22 games this season. He was averaging 10 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.7 steals per game.
Schroyer declined further comment.
In December, sophomore guard/forward Thomas Manzano left the program, also said to be for personal reasons.
CU 1955 Final Four player dies at 76.
Wilbert “Wil” Walter, one of five seniors on the University of Colorado’s 1955 basketball team that qualified for the NCAA Final Four, died this week in South Carolina. He was 76.
Walter played in 38 games in his career under coach H.B. Lee, including his senior season when the Buffaloes got to the national semifinals before losing to Bill Russell and eventual champion San Francisco.
Walter went on to earn a doctorate in organic and medicinal chemistry and was a professor at the universities of North Dakota, Tennessee-Memphis, Mississippi and South Carolina.
Colorado Springs gets U.S. boxing championships.
The U.S. boxing championships are moving back to Colorado Springs after a one-year stay in Denver.
The nation’s premier amateur boxing tournament is scheduled for July 12-17, with more than 200 of the country’s Olympic-style boxers in male and female divisions.
