IN BRIEF
Allan Eaton, a 6-foot-6 junior forward for A-C Valley High, was selected for the Pennsylvania all-state boys basketball team, as chosen by a panel of sports writers from across the commonwealth
Eaton, who was tapped for the third team, averaged 19.8 points and 11.3 rebounds per game in 2009-10 and was the KSAC Most Valuable Player.
NEW YORK — The New York Yankees are worth nearly twice as much as any other team in baseball, according to the annual estimates by Forbes magazine.The Yankees were valued at $1.6 billion, Forbes said, up from $1.5 billion last year.Boston was next, going up 4 percent to $870 million and was followed by the New York Mets, who dropped 6 percent to $858 million. The Los Angeles Dodgers, caught in divorce proceedings of its owners, were fourth with a 1 percent increase to $727 million.Pittsburgh was last at $289 million, just below Oakland, which dropped to $295 million.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Freshman All-Americans John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins are among five Kentucky players who have declared for the NBA draft.Junior forward Patrick Patterson, freshman guard Eric Bledsoe and freshman center Daniel Orton are also entering the draft.Wall and Cousins are expected to be among the first few players selected.The five players helped Kentucky go 35-3 this season and win the Southeastern Conference tournament before falling to West Virginia in the regional finals of the NCAA tournament.
MONTCOAL, W.Va. — West Virginia men's basketball coach Bob Huggins made a surprise visit Wednesday to the families of miners who have been killed or are missing following an explosion.The families have been waiting word on their loved ones since Monday's blast at Upper Big Branch Mine. Twenty-five miners have been killed and two are injured. Rescue crews are working to try to reach four who are missing.
NEW YORK — Tennis great Martina Navratilova was diagnosed with a noninvasive form of breast cancer and her prognosis is considered excellent.Navratilova said Wednesday in a phone interview that a routine mammogram in January found a lump, and a biopsy the following month determined it was ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS. The nine-time Wimbledon women's singles champion had a lumpectomy in March and will start six weeks of radiation therapy next month.
