Army football coach Ross retires
Bobby Ross retired yesterday as Army's football coach, and without a victory over Navy in his three seasons with the Black Knights.
Bobby Ross
retired yesterday as Army's football coach, and without a victory over Navy in his three seasons with the Black Knights.
The former NFL coach, who had a 9-25 record at Army, will be succeeded by offensive line coach Stan Brock.
"I think there's a point in time when you feel like it's your time to retire, and I think I've reached that time," the 70-year-old Ross said in a statement. "I think there is an issue of having a certain degree of energy, which I feel is very important for anyone leading a college football program. I feel that I was lacking in that area."
Brock, 48, who played for Ross on the 1995 San Diego Chargers team that reached the Super Bowl, said he was surprised, even though he and Ross had talked about the future.
Brock has never been a head coach at the Division I level but had 5 years of head coaching experience in the Arena Football League before coming to West Point with Ross.
In other college football news:
* A military judge set an April 2 court-martial date for former Naval Academy player Kenny Ray Morrison on charges alleging he sexually assaulted two female midshipmen.
* Charges won't be filed against former California running back Marshawn Lynch despite an Oakland woman's accusations that he choked, slapped and sexually assaulted her, said prosecutors, citing a lack of evidence. Lynch, 20, has left Cal to enter the upcoming NFL draft, where he is expected to be selected in the first round.
* Micah Rushing became the sixth Guilford College football player charged with assaulting a Palestinian student earlier this month, court officials said. The charges stem from accusations by three Palestinian students who said they were beaten by several members of the team, taunted with racial slurs and called "terrorists."
Tennis
* Venus Williams has committed to play in the first round of the Fed Cup, April 21-22, against Belgium in Delray Beach, Fla. She missed the Australian Open with a left wrist injury.
* Oscar Hernandez beat three-time French Open winner Gustavo Kuerten, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3), in round-robin play in the Movistar Open in Vina Del Mar, Chile.
Sport Stops
* Russian rower Olga Samulenkova was banned 2 years for doping and her quadruple sculls team was stripped of its 2006 world championships gold medal.
* The perjury trial of Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou set for yesterday was postponed until late September. Kenteris and Thanou face misdemeanor charges of perjury over an alleged motorcycle accident on Aug. 12, 2004, which they are suspected of staging to avoid a doping test on the eve of the Athens Olympics. *