DENVER (AP) — Jack Elway, the son of Denver Broncos general manager John Elway, was arrested on assault charges after his girlfriend told police he pulled her out of a car by her hair.
Court documents obtained Monday show the woman told Denver police that 24-year-old John Albert Elway also pushed her to the ground when she tried to get back in the car, causing scrapes.
The documents say the incident happened early Saturday near a college campus in downtown Denver. Elway initially fled the scene.
Elway was released from jail on $550 bond and was scheduled to appear in court Thursday. He faces charges of assault and disturbing the peace.
Court records do not list an attorney. A Broncos spokesman says the case is a personal family matter.
Nicholson (Right) with NPHS and Flatrock 17 teammate Allison Kuenle.
North Platte Bulldog volleyball player Olivia Nicholson was named to the USA Youth National Volleyball Team on May 28.
Nicholson recently finished her sophomore season at North Platte High School where she recorded 246 kills, 51 solo blocks and 18 block assists. She helped the Lady Dawgs reach the district finals where they lost to Lincoln North Star 3-1. North Platte finished the season with a 21-11 record. Nicholson along with 11 other girls from around the country will compete in the 2014 NORCECA U-18 Continental Championships in Costa Rica June 22-30.
In an article on nebraskaprepvolleyball.com North Platte High volleyball coach Laura Miller said:
“Ollie is becoming more confident in herself and her abilities. She is wanting the ball in clutch situations. She has a great work ethic and has become an awesome team player. We are very excited for her and this opportunity she has worked really hard for. She will have an amazing experience and she will bring it all back to our gym this fall.”
Chicago, IL – The United States Hockey League today announced the appointment of Bob Fallen as President and Commissioner. Fallen follows Skip Princewho led the USHL for six momentous years during which the League experienced significant growth in business and hockey operations, along with achieving record numbers in player development. Fallen is being formally introduced today during a media teleconference.**
With professional experience spanning nearly three decades in sports marketing, publishing, sales, media relations, and management, Fallen assumed the League’s leadership position on June 1st. He is just the third Commissioner for the USHL in the past 20 years.
“I am thrilled with the opportunity to lead the finest junior hockey league in the world,” said Fallen. “The foundation built by my predecessors, league owners, and the stakeholders throughout the hockey industry have made the USHL an important step along the developmental path for players, coaches, and officials. I look forward to working with our staff, aligned partners, and the international hockey community at-large to build upon our success.”
Fallen most recently managed the U.S. trade marketing efforts for Reebok-CCM Hockey – the world’s largest hockey equipment manufacturing company and equipment supplier to many leagues including the NHL, AHL, and USHL. In his position, Fallen was responsible for executing retail product launches, strategic account planning, media promotion, and maintaining various league alliances.
Prior to his stint with Reebok-CCM, Fallen’s career included several hockey business related endeavors including retail and event venue graphics, magazine publishing, corporate sponsorship, and event management. His professional experience includes serving as Associate Publisher for USA Hockey Magazine andMinnesota Hockey Journal along with developing the partnership development efforts for Minnesota Hockey and the Hobey Baker Memorial Award – college hockey’s top individual honor.
Fallen has also been heavily involved in hockey at the amateur level. He served for several years on the USA Hockey Marketing Council, supporting various initiatives in marketing, sponsorship, media, and membership development. He has also been a board member for the Upper Midwest High School Elite League, a Minnesota-based league for top high school hockey talent that has helped produce a number of players that have moved on to play in the USHL. Fallen led an effort that significantly increased the Elite League’s sponsorship and media efforts. In a personal role, he is the Director of Skaters Keep Achieving Thru Education(S.K.A.T.E.), a non-profit organization devoted to promoting academic achievement among youth hockey players.
“Skip Prince did a tremendous job elevating the USHL to where it is today and Bob is inheriting a strong league that is on an upswing,” said Brad Kwong, Interim Chairman of the USHL Board of Directors. “But the USHL still has much untapped potential, and we are extremely excited that we’ve been able to attract Bob to be the leader that will help us achieve even bigger and better things during our next phase of growth.”
Coming to the USHL marks a return to the Chicago area for Fallen as he is a native of Glen Ellyn, Illinois and began his professional career in the area after graduating from nearby Northern Illinois University. Early career opportunities encompassed roles for a number of sports management and promotion companies, including International Management Group, Kemper Sports, and Sport F/X, an agency he started which had a client roster that included the National Hockey League, USA Hockey, and United States Hockey Hall of Fame.
Fallen and his wife, Kathy, have two children, a daughter Kelley (25) and son Thomas (23). Kelley played NCAA hockey at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN and was a four-year letter winner, including serving as a captain during her senior season in 2011. Thomas spent two seasons playing in the USHL for the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders (2009-11) and helped the team capture the regular season Anderson Cup title in 2010-11. He is now entering his fourth season of college hockey at Yale University and was recently named captain of the Bulldogs for 2014-15. He was part of the school’s first-ever NCAA Ice Hockey Championship in 2013 and is among the school’s all-time scoring leaders for defensemen.
Bob Fallen takes over the role of President and Commissioner of the USHL that had been held by Skip Prince since 2008. Prince, along with the USHL Executive Committee, helped lead the national search for the new Commissioner, and he will continue to serve in an advisory role for the League on projects and initiatives.
North Platte resident Larry Gosnell was awarded the Trail Boss Award at last year’s Buffalo Bill Rodeo. He has volunteered with the rodeo for 26 years.
North Platte, Neb. (June 2, 2014) – Larry Gosnell never thought he’d be involved in rodeo.
The North Platte man always came to watch the Buffalo Bill Rodeo when he was a kid, but he never thought he’d be behind the chutes.
It was in 1988 when Melvin Hill, another North Platte resident, stopped by his business, Larry’s Glass, on West Fifth Street. He asked Larry to go for a ride with him. They stopped for coffee and a donut, and Melvin asked if Larry would want to be on the Buffalo Bill Rodeo committee. Melvin said the committee was made up of cowboys and businessmen, and they were looking for more businessmen. “I said, I don’t know anything about rodeo,” Larry remembers, and Melvin told him he didn’t need to know anything about rodeo, he needed to know business. “I said, ‘you’ve got to be kidding.’ I thought it was a joke, and I was pretty sure I wouldn’t be voted in.”
A few weeks later, after the rodeo board election, Melvin called Larry. You were a unanimous decision, he told him, and again Larry said, “You’ve got to be kidding me. I didn’t know what I was getting into,” he laughs.
Larry joined the committee and right away was put to work. His jobs were sponsorships and organizing the meals served to cowboys, cowgirls, contract personnel, and special guests after each rodeo. He’s continued in those jobs, and now also does the daysheets, the listing of the contestants for each performance.
And 26 years later, he’s still at it and enjoying it. He loves meeting the people, seeing them through the growing up years of their kids, their lives throughout the years. Stock contractor Bennie Beutler has been bringing bulls and horses and his family to North Platte for years. “Bennie’s family grew up with my family,” Larry said. He’s made friends with cowboys and contract personnel from across the nation. “Knowing all the cowboys who came to town” has been a thrill. “Ty Murray, Tom Reeves, Dan Mortensen, the Etbauers (saddle bronc riding brothers), the Suhns (steer wrestling brothers), so many of them.” He’s enjoyed their friendship, and how they will literally give you the coat off their back. He remembers when the rodeo committee was to receive commemorative coats from Copenhagen-Skoal, and the sponsor was short one coat. “Big old Randy Vaughn (who worked for Copenhagen-Skoal) took off his coat and gave it to me.”
He’s seen a lot of the rodeo entertainers come through town, too. Bullfighters Ted Kimzey and Leon Coffee, barrelman Butch Lehmkuhler, rodeo clown Keith Isley, and specialty acts The One Arm Bandit and Max Reynolds are all among his friends. And bullfighter Greg Rumohr, who worked the North Platte rodeo for 24 years before retiring in 2011, got his start the same year Larry began.
His daughter has continued with an interest in rodeo. Susie Dobbs, who lives in Nashville, was part of the Beyond Rodeo television show on RFD-TV for five years and has sung the national anthem at the National Finals Rodeo. “That’s pretty special,” he says.
Last year, Larry was honored with the Buffalo Bill Rodeo’s Trail Boss Award, given annually to a volunteer who goes above and beyond with their support of the North Platte rodeo. He was caught off-guard. “I had no idea,” he says. His daughter Susie awarded it to him, and he didn’t realize he was the recipient till her presentation was nearly done. “That’s when I lost it,” he said. “And then I couldn’t talk at all.”
He’s looking to retire from the rodeo committee, but his fellow committeemen aren’t willing to let him go yet. “They say they need me for my wisdom,” he jokes.
And this June, he’ll be back at the arena, ready for more rodeo. “If it hadn’t been for Melvin, I would be there. I have to thank him, even though he’s gone, because I’ve had 26 of the most fun times of my life.”
The Buffalo Bill Rodeo takes place each evening at 8 pm June 18-21 at the Wild West Arena in North Platte. Tickets range in price from $7 to $20 and can be purchased online at NebraskalandDays.com, at the gate, and through the NebraskalandDays office (509 East 4th Street in North Platte.) For more information, visit NebraskaLandDays.com or call the NebraskalandDays office at 308.532.7939.
The North Platte First Nationals American Legion baseball team beat McCook and Pleasant Dale but lost to Lincoln Amigos in Seward over the weekend .
The First Nationals (7-6) began the weekend with a Friday night game against Lincoln Amigos and lost 11-6. North Platte hit the ball well in the game with eight hits, including three doubles, but six errors doomed the First Nationals from the beginning. Ty Brockmoller started on the mound and only lasted one inning after giving up seven runs on five hits, but six of the runs were unearned as he took the loss.
Alec Wesslund, Darian Allberry and Luke Volz led the way at the plate for North Platte. Wesslund went 2-3 with a double and two RBI, Allberry went 2-2 with a double and one run batted in, and Volz added a double and an RBI.
The First Nationals played at 11:00 am Saturday against Pleasant Dale for the second game of the weekend and won 12-1 in five innings. Allberry stayed hot at the plate by going 3-3 in the game with a double and six runs batted in. Dalton Pflughaupt earned the win by pitching a one-hit complete game. The only run scored by Pleasant Dale was unearned and Pflughaupt had three strikeouts in the game.
The final game of the weekend was a Sunday afternoon game against McCook that North Platte won 13-3 in five innings. The First Nationals wasted no time getting the lead by scoring 11 runs in the first inning. Jack Kenny and Volz led the way at the plate for North Platte. Kenny went 2-3 with two doubles and two RBI and Volz went 2-4 with a triple and four runs batted in. Riley Vierya earned the win on the mound by pitching a complete game. Vierya gave up three unearned runs on five hits and had three strikeouts with no walks.
North Platte’s next game is Tuesday, June 3 against Kearney Runza. It will be a Junior-Senior doubleheader with the Juniors game starting at 5:30 and the Seniors first pitch will be at 8:00 at Bill Wood Field. First National Bank is having their bank night at the ballpark on Tuesday and the First Nationals would like fans to try and Fill the Bill. The team hopes to have the largest crowd ever at a North Platte American Legion game.
The North Platte First Nationals Juniors team improved to 10-0 on the season with a double header sweep of Columbus on Friday. The Juniors beat Columbus 12-1 and 16-1.
DENVER (AP) — Jack Elway, the son of Denver Broncos executive John Elway, has been arrested on charges of assault and disturbing the peace.
According to jail records, 24-year-old John Albert Elway was booked into jail early Saturday morning for an incident that occurred near a college campus in downtown Denver. Police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez says she can’t provide any details about what led to the arrest, other than the alleged victim was a female.
Broncos spokesman Patrick Smyth says “this is a personal family matter and the Broncos will not have any additional comment on it.”
Elway has been released on $550 bond and is scheduled to appear in court Thursday. Jail records do not indicate if he has an attorney.
Rosemont, Ill. — The Big Ten Council of Presidents/Chancellors (COP/C) held its annual June meeting today at the Big Ten Conference office and issued the following statement:
The Big Ten COP/C discussed a variety of important topics during its annual June meeting, while taking part in an open house and tour of the new conference office building in Rosemont, honoring outgoing presidents and welcoming new presidents. Key areas of discussion focused on NCAA restructuring, the need for autonomy for the 65 institutions comprising the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC, and ensuring accountability for delivering reform. While the NCAA Board of Directors’ Steering Committee on Governance has made good progress in the area of autonomy, more work needs to be done as we seek to implement a 21st century governance structure that preserves the collegiate model while allowing each school to focus on improved student-athlete welfare.
As such, the COP/C discussed the recent letter shared by the Pac-12 presidents with their colleagues on May 14. The Big Ten has been engaged in substantive discussion over the last year on many of the principal objectives for reform referenced in the Pac-12 document, including concepts presented by Commissioner Delany to media last July in Chicago along with meetings and teleconferences in October, December and February. The majority of these objectives have long been supported by the Big Ten and its member institutions.
The Big Ten continues to strongly support full cost of attendance scholarships, reasonable on-going medical or insurance assistance to student-athletes, continued efforts to reduce the incidence of disabling injury, guaranteed scholarships to complete a bachelor’s degree, decreased time demands and enhanced time to fully engage in campus life, adjusted restrictions on preparing for careers based on advice and counsel of agents and a meaningful role in governance for student-athletes.
The COP/C also examined three other principal objectives for reform proposed by the Pac-12 presidents – strengthening the Academic Progress Rate (APR) requirements for post-season play, the “one and done” culture in men’s basketball and liberalizing current limits on transfer rules. While the concept of increasing APR requirements has not been discussed in the past, the Big Ten has long supported increased academic standards for all institutions. With respect to the issues of the “one and done” culture and transfer rules, the COP/C agrees that these are important issues that should be examined and addressed in cogent ways.
In addition to the substantive concepts raised in the Pac-12 letter, the conference continues to support certain procedural elements of governance restructuring including increased inclusion of faculty representatives, a voting process that does not set a bar so high that it prohibits change, and the ability to interpret and waive autonomous rules. The COP/C looks forward to further discourse on these topics with our colleagues in other conferences and Big Ten faculty, administrators, student-athletes and coaches, as we continue to discuss the best use of autonomy to give more than 9,500 conference student-athletes the support they deserve to best shape their future.
The COP/C also received an update on the traumatic brain injury (TBI) research collaboration between the conference, the Consortium on Intercollegiate Cooperation, and the Ivy League. The collaboration, begun in June 2012, continues to foster multi-institutional, cross-conference research efforts centered on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of TBI and sports concussion. The COP/C also reviewed the recently announced joint initiative for concussion research between the NCAA and Department of Defense, a $30 million initiative that will include research managed at three Big Ten institutions: Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Taylor Bryant came home with the go-ahead run when Nebraska’s Bob Greco balked in the seventh inning and Cal State Fullerton eliminated the Cornhuskers 4-3 in the NCAA regionals Sunday.
Cal State Fullerton (34-23) advanced to Sunday night’s regional final against top-seeded Oklahoma State, for a rematch of the previous night’s 13-7 loss.
Down 3-2 in the seventh, Fullerton scored twice without registering a hit. Jared Deacon was hit by a pitch and moved to second when Bryant reached on an error by Nebraska starting pitcher Aaron Bummer. One out later, Cornhusker shortstop Steven Reveles could not come up with Keegan Dale’s sharp grounder, allowing Deacon to score and advancing Bryant to third.
Blake Headley’s RBI single in the sixth gave Nebraska (41-21) a 3-2 lead.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Michael Bourn’s two-run homer in the ninth inning gave the Cleveland Indians a 6-4 win over the Colorado Rockies on Sunday and a sweep of their three-game series.
Bourn hit an 0-1 pitch into the right-field seats off Adam Ottavino (0-2). Mike Aviles singled and took second on George Kottaras’ sacrifice before Bourn hit his second home run of the season.
Bourn raced around the bases and threw his helmet into the air as he was mobbed by his teammates at home plate. The walk-off win was Cleveland’s fourth of the season.
Scott Atchison (2-0) worked around a two-out double in the ninth by striking out Charlie Blackmon to end the inning.
Colorado completed a 2-7 road trip and has lost four straight for the first time since last September.
TORONTO (AP) — Mark Buehrle pitched eight sharp innings to become baseball’s first 10-game winner, Edwin Encarnacion homered again and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Kansas City Royals 4-0 Sunday.
Buehrle (10-1) won his sixth straight decision. He gave up six hits, walked one and struck out three.
He lowered his ERA to 2.10, second-best in the AL to New York’s Masahiro Tanaka, and improved to 25-12 lifetime against the Royals.
Encarnacion, who matched Mickey Mantle’s AL record with 16 home runs in May, started off a new month with another drive. He hit a two-run shot off Aaron Crow in the eighth for his 19th homer of the season.
Jeremy Guthrie (2-5) lost his fifth straight decision.
