MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Dana Holgorsen was introduced as West Virginia’s football coach Friday, hours after Bill Stewart resigned.
Athletic director Oliver Luck didn’t address specific reasons for Stewart’s resignation at a news conference, but Luck said recent developments had become an issue.
“It was a combination of things,” Luck said. “The program is more important than any individual.”
Holgorsen and Stewart made unwanted headlines in recent weeks. An intoxicated Holgorsen was escorted out of a casino last month. More recently, a reporter said Stewart had approached him shortly after Holgorsen’s hiring to “dig up” dirt on his eventual successor.
Holgorsen was hired as offensive coordinator and head-coach-in-waiting in December, while Stewart, who went 28-12 in three seasons, was to serve his final season in 2011. Now Holgorsen is a college head coach for the first time and also will serve as offensive coordinator.
• Auburn’s Gene Chizik received a new contract, nearly doubling his $2.1 million salary and making him one of college football’s highest- paid coaches at $3.5 million a year.
Marshall’s wife back in jail
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Miami Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall‘s wife has been arrested again after previously being charged with stabbing him in the abdomen.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office reported deputies responded to a 911 hang-up at the couple’s home Friday morning. Despite a protection order requiring her to stay at least 500 feet from the home, Michi Nogami-Marshall told deputies she had been living there while Marshall was out of town. When Marshall returned, an argument occurred, followed by the 911 call. She was charged with violating her pretrial release.
Footnotes.
Robert Karlsson shot a 5-under-par 65 to take a three- stroke lead over Colt Knost (68—134) and Keegan Bradley (67) after the second round of the St. Jude Classic in Memphis, Tenn.
• Mindy Kim maintained her two-stroke lead in the LPGA State Farm Classic, following her opening career-low 64 with a 5-under 67 in Springfield, Ill.
• Bob Tway birdied the 18th hole for a 9-under 63 to open a one-shot lead over Mike Goodes, Tommy Armour III, Joe Ozaki and Mark Wiebe after the first round of the Champions Tour’s Greater Hickory Classic in Conover, N.C.
• Robert Rock shot a 4-under 68 to take a one-shot lead over Chris Wood (69—133) and Joost Luiten (67) after the second round of the Italian Open in Fiano.
• Boulder cyclist Philip Zajicek has been banned for life after admitting to multiple doping violations in a case stemming from an investigation into EPO and human-growth hormone trafficking from China for nearly 200 athletes.
• Janet Evans, who earned three gold medals at the 1988 Olympics, said she’s been training hard for the past six months with an eye on qualifying for next year’s Olympic trials. Evans turns 40 in August.
• Florida State’s Ngonidzashe Makusha broke the national collegiate record in the 100 meters in the NCAA outdoor championships, winning in 9.89 seconds to beat Ato Boldon‘s 1996 mark of 9.90.
