Suzy Favor Hamilton says she has worked as escort
Three-time Olympian runner Suzy Favor Hamilton has admitted leading a double life as an escort.
She apologized Thursday after a report by The Smoking Gun website said she had been working as a prostitute in Las Vegas.
The 44-year-old Favor Hamilton lives in Madison, Wis. The Smoking Gun said she has been working for the last year for an escort service.
Soon after the story appeared online, Hamilton released a series of tweets saying in part that she was “drawn to escorting in large part because it provided many coping mechanisms for me when I was going through a very challenging time with my marriage and my life.”
A middle-distance runner, Favor Hamilton competed for the U.S. at the Olympics in 1992, 1996 and 2000 but did not win a medal. She won seven U.S. national titles.
Thunder eye 13th straight win…Heat-Mavericks
UNDATED (AP) — The NBA has its usual limited Thursday night schedule in place with just three games on tap.
The best matchup of the night is the first as Oklahoma City takes on the Timberwolves in Minnesota. The Thunder have won an NBA season-high 12 straight games and area a league-best 21-4 following last night’s victory in Atlanta.
The Wolves have dropped two straight since a four-game winning streak, leaving them 12-11 this season. Minnesota has split the two games it has played with guard Ricky Rubio, who’s being slowly brought back into the lineup following major surgery.
It’s the first meeting of the season between the two teams. The Thunder were 3-0 against the Timberwolves last season, including a 149-140 overtime game last March.
Game 2 has the Miami Heat visiting the Dallas Mavericks, who’ve opened the season 12-13 while playing without forward Dirk Nowitzki. The Heat have the second best record in the East at 16-6, but they are just 4-4 on the road.
The two teams haven’t faced each other since March 29, when Miami beat the Mavericks 106-85 to complete a sweep of the two-game season series.
Nos. 1 & 2 in action on otherwise light schedule
UNDATED (AP) — The nation’s No. 1 and No. 2 teams in men’s college basketball are in action tonight while the rest of the top 25 have the day off.
Top-ranked Duke is playing its second game in as many nights, taking on Elon at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devils improved to 10-0 with last night’s win over Cornell.
Duke and Elon haven’t met since December 2010, when the Blue Devils ripped the Phoenix 99-72 to take a 17-7 lead in the overall series. Elon is 6-4 and hasn’t beaten an ACC team since December 2005 against Clemson.
No. 2 Michigan goes against Eastern Michigan in the other game. The Wolverines are 11-0 for the first time in 24 years following an 81-66 win over West Virginia last weekend. The Eagles are 6-3 and come off Saturday’s 74-48 loss to Illinois-Chicago.
The two teams haven’t squared off since December 2008, when Michigan cruised to a 91-60 rout at Crisler Arena.
DePauw hires Bill Lynch as new football coach
GREENCASTLE, Ind. (AP) — DePauw has hired Bill Lynch as its new football coach — for the second time.
The school made the announcement Thursday.
The former Indiana and Ball State coach also went 8-2 with the Tigers in 2004 before becoming Indiana’s offensive coordinator under the late Terry Hoeppner. Lynch was promoted to interim coach in 2007, following Hoeppner’s death, took the Hoosiers to their first bowl game since 1993 and kept the job until being fired following the 2010 season.
Since then, Lynch has been the associate athletic director for development at Butler, his alma mater.
He has coached 32 years in college football and one season in the defunct USFL. He is 100-97-3 overall as a head coach, including a 44-14-3 mark in six seasons with Butler and DePauw.
(ed note – DePauw is the Sports Director’s alma mater, so it’s noteworthy to him, anyway!)