AUSTIN, Texas — Former Texas star and veteran NFL player and coach Jerry Gray was hired Monday as the Longhorns’ assistant head coach and defensive backs coach.
Gray was a four-year letterman at defensive back for Texas from 1981-84. He had a nine-year NFL playing career with the Rams, Oilers and Buccaneers, making the Pro Bowl four times at cornerback.
• Southern Mississippi defensive coordinator Todd Bradford joined the Maryland staff as linebackers coach.
• Auburn wide receiver Darvin Adams is skipping his senior season to enter the NFL draft.
• Former Iowa running back Adam Robinson wants back on the team and apologized to friends, family members and former teammates for breaking team rules and Iowa law by possessing marijuana. The school had no comment.
NASCAR reviewing points system
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR is considering scrapping the points system it has used since 1975 in favor of a simpler method that awards points per finishing position, The Associated Press reported.
The sanctioning body wants to go to a scoring system that would award 43 points to the race winner, and one point less for each ensuing position down to one point for the 43rd-place finisher.
NASCAR is also shying away from wholesale changes to its Chase for the Sprint Cup championship format.
• Pocono (Pa.) Raceway moved qualifying for both of its Sprint Cup dates this season to Saturday, shifting away from the traditional Friday date.
Footnotes.
Davis Love III will be picked today as the captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup team, two officials involved in the selection process said. Jose Maria Olazabal is expected to be appointed Europe’s team captain.
• Olympic all-around gymnastics gold medalist Paul Hamm will have surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder, but he intends to compete in the 2012 London Games.
• Zenyatta won horse of the year at the Eclipse Awards, besting Blame — the only horse to beat her on the track. She was 19-0 before losing her final race in the Breeders’ Cup Classic last November.
• Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy had arthroscopic surgery on both of his knees. There is no timetable for his return.
• Charlotte Bobcats forward Tyrus Thomas was suspended without pay for Monday’s game against Philadelphia because of a flagrant foul against the Hornets’ Emeka Okafor.
• Florida Panthers defenseman Bryan McCabe is expected to miss four to six weeks while recovering from surgery to fix a broken jaw.
• UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez will miss up to eight months after surgery to repair his torn rotator cuff.
• Auburn basketball guard Frankie Sullivan will miss the rest of the season because of a knee injury sustained last summer.
• Indiana point guard Maurice Creek will be out indefinitely because of a stress fracture in his right kneecap.
The Associated Press
