DENVER -- The Denver Nuggets have waived reserve center Chris "Birdman" Andersen.
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The team announced the move Tuesday. Andersen averaged 5.3 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.44 blocked shots in 32 games with the Nuggets last season.
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He first joined the Nuggets as an undrafted free agent in 2001 and left for New Orleans in 2004. NBA officials suspended him in 2006, citing violations of the league's drug policy, but he later rejoined the Nuggets.
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The Nuggets made the playoffs last season, but Andersen didn't play. The Nuggets had excused him from team-related activities after Douglas County sheriff's deputies searched his home as part of an investigation by the department's Internet Crimes Against Children unit. No criminal charges have been announced.
Bomb threat fails to halt Detroit Tigers game
DETROIT -- Baseball stadium Comerica Park is the latest Detroit landmark to be the subject of a bomb threat.
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Police say an anonymous caller issued the threat in a 911 call around 8 p.m. Tuesday as the Tigers were hosting the Los Angeles Angels in front of 34,000 fans.
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No announcement was made, nor was there a call for an evacuation as police searched the ballpark for an explosive device.
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Detroit police Sgt. Eren Stephens says no device was found.
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The threat followed two similar incidents in less than a week that shut down a tunnel and a bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, for hours.
Penn State to respond soon to NCAA demand for info
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. --As the NCAA considers whether Penn State should face penalties following the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal -- including a possible shutdown of its celebrated football program -- the university says it will respond within days to the governing body's demand for information.
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The head of the NCAA has declared that the so-called death penalty has not been ruled out for Penn State, but university president Rodney Erickson said Tuesday he doesn't want to "jump to conclusions" about possible sanctions.
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The NCAA is investigating whether Penn State lost "institutional control" over its athletic program and violated ethics rules. Its probe had been on hold for eight months while former FBI Director Louis Freeh conducted an investigation on behalf of the school's board of trustees. Freeh's 267-page report, released last week, asserted that late football coach Joe Paterno and three top officials buried allegations against Sandusky, his retired defensive coordinator, more than a decade ago to protect the university's image.
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Sandusky was convicted last month of sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period. He awaits sentencing.
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Erickson said now that Penn State has the results of its own investigation in hand, it can turn its attention to the NCAA.
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"The NCAA has indicated that they'd like me to respond ... as quickly as possible now that we have the Freeh report," he said. "So we've already started the process of starting to compose that response. We'll do so over the course of the next few days and get that response back as soon as possible, and we'll then engage in discussions with the NCAA."
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In a PBS interview Monday night, NCAA President Mark Emmert said he's "never seen anything as egregious as this in terms of just overall conduct and behavior inside a university." He said he doesn't want to take "anything off the table" if there's a finding that Penn State violated NCAA rules.
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The last time the NCAA shut down a football program was in the 1980s, when Southern Methodist University was forced to drop the sport because of extra benefits violations. After the NCAA suspended the SMU program for a year, the school decided not to play in 1988, either, as it tried to regroup.
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Erickson would not say whether he thought Penn State deserved to have its football program yanked.
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"Let's not get ahead of ourselves here," Erickson told The Associated Press as he conducted a round of media interviews in his office on Tuesday. "Let's wait for this process to unfold. President Emmert has said that the NCAA will take a deliberate and deliberative process in addressing this, so I don't think we should jump to any conclusions at this point."
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Associated Press
Source: http://www.journal-advocate.com/sterling-sports/ci_21102252/sports-briefs-july-18?source=rss
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