Michigan AD to retire in 2010
University of Michigan athletic director Bill Martin, who helped launch a pair of multimillion-dollar renovations to campus facilities and brought in new coaches for the football and men's basketball programs, will retire next year.
Martin, 69, will step down effective Sept. 4, 2010, the school said yesterday. Martin, a former president of the United States Sailing Association, became director of athletics at Michigan in 2000 on an interim basis.
Martin said his retirement had been discussed for several years and he had agreed to remain while renovations to Michigan Stadium were ongoing. That project is scheduled to be finished by August 2010, and another major project, a $23.2 million basketball practice facility next to Crisler Arena, was approved in January by the Board of Regents.
Martin made several major hires during his tenure, including Rich Rodriguez to replace Lloyd Carr as football coach and John Beilein as basketball coach. Both Rodriguez and Beilein were hired in 2007 from West Virginia.
Baseball
* St. Louis Cardinals star Albert Pujols underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow, with doctors removing bone chips and trimming bone spurs. He is expected to make a full recovery in time for next season. Dr. James Andrews, who performed the operation in Birmingham, Ala., said Pujols would not require ligament reconstruction. Pujols has been playing with a partially torn ligament since 2003, and reconstructive surgery would have sidelined him the first few months of next season.
* Former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine will have his second interview with the Cleveland Indians today.
Boxing
* Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik has called off his title defense against Paul Williams because of an infected left hand. The bout had been scheduled for Dec. 5 in Atlantic City.
* European boxing promoter Mogens Palle is suing Showtime, contending the cable network conspired to help WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler break his promotional contract and take part in its round-robin tournament.
Philly File
* Kenny Moore, a power forward from Midland (Junior) College in Texas, by way of University City High, has committed to play basketball at St. Francis (N.Y.).
Sport Stops
* U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover ran off three consecutive birdies and went on to a five-shot victory at the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Southampton, Bermuda.
* Orlando Magic reserve center Adonal Foyle has undergone arthroscopic surgery on his right knee. There is no timetable for Foyle's return.
