Tennessee Hires Rick Barnes as Coach (original) (raw)

Sports Briefing | Colleges

April 1, 2015

The University of Tennessee announced Tuesday that it had hired Rick Barnes as the coach of its men’s basketball team. Barnes coached Texas for 17 years but was fired by the Longhorns on Sunday. Barnes’s six-year contract will pay him $2.25 million annually.

■ UConn’s men’s basketball coach, Kevin Ollie, will not travel to the Final Four this week, abiding by a travel ban ordered by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut in response to Indiana’s new religious-objections law.

■ Coach Nick Saban has kicked a second Alabama football player off the team, swiftly dismissing the reserve running back Tyren Jones after his arrest on charges of marijuana possession. Jones is the third player in Saban’s program arrested in the last four days. Safety Geno Smith was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol for the second time in his Alabama career. Defensive lineman Jonathan Taylor, who had been kicked off the Georgia team in July after a domestic violence arrest, now faces similar charges stemming from a separate episode in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and has been dismissed from the Crimson Tide.

■ Three former football players at Toledo have been placed on probation for their roles in a bribery scheme at the Ohio university. Adam Cuomo, Quinton Broussard and Harvey McDougle Jr. admitted taking money from Ghazi Manni, a Detroit-area gambler, to provide information about the Rockets or their opponents a decade ago.

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