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New UA assistant basketball coach Pennell to be paid $150,000 next yearSTAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 05.14.2008
Arizona agreed to pay Russ Pennell $150,000 to serve as an assistant basketball coach next season, according to records obtained from the UA.
Pennell, a former ASU assistant who has been running the Arizona Premier youth basketball program in Gilbert, also will receive $10,000 in moving expenses. The agreement was signed Monday by Pennell and UA athletic director Jim Livengood.
Pennell is likely to become the second-highest paid assistant coach on Lute Olson's new staff behind Denver Nuggets assistant Mike Dunlap. If so, Pennell would effectively take the salary slot of departing assistant Josh Pastner, who made $123,900 last season.
Dunlap, who has not yet been officially named, has said he was offered a spot as an associate head coach. Arizona agreed to pay Kevin O'Neill $375,000 as the top assistant last season, then later raised him to $725,000 after he assumed interim head coach duties, and Miles Simon earned $92,925.
After last season, O'Neill was moved to a fundraising role, Simon was told his contract would not be renewed, and Pastner departed to take an assistant coaching job at Memphis.
UA has posted a job opening since April 25, after O'Neill was moved, and UA associate AD John Perrin said it remains posted in order to serve as notice for the other two openings, meaning Dunlap can be hired officially at any point.
— Bruce Pascoe
NFL
'Spygate' probe appears over
NEW YORK — A murmur rippled across the room as the NFL revealed the tapes provided by former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh.
The cause was not some new revelation of wrongdoing by New England, which was caught last September recording opposing coaches' signals in violation of league rules.
No, the most scandalous tidbit that emerged Tuesday after Walsh spent more than six hours meeting separately with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Sen. Arlen Specter was a snippet of tape that showed close-ups of Chargers cheerleaders performing during a 2002 game.
Otherwise, little fresh information surfaced. Asked if he considered the Spygate investigation closed, Goodell said, "As I stand before you today, and having met with Matt Walsh and more than 50 other people, I don't know where else I would turn."
Walsh did not comment after his morning meeting with Goodell, but the meeting itself provided some closure about one of the most serious allegations made against New England: He had no knowledge of anybody with the Patriots taping the Rams' final walkthrough leading up to the 2002 Super Bowl, Goodell said.
PIMA MEN'S TENNIS
Aztecs solid on Day 1
Pima Community College had three wins and a bye Monday in singles play on the first day of the NJCAA National Championships in Plano, Texas.
Two Aztecs lost in the first round.
Pima's Ian Esquer defeated Drew Shelley of Spartanburg Methodist College (S.C.) in the No. 2 singles match 6-2, 6-1. In the No. 4 match Ruben Medina defeated Will Cundy of Moraine Valley College (Ill.) 0-6, 6-4, 6-3, and in the No. 6 match, Steve Weintraub defeated Tomazak Saengyothinh of Elgin CC (Ill.) 6-1, 6-1.
Mark Pitzlin received a bye in the No. 5 spot.
In No. 1 singles, Nick Caldwell lost to Andres Nunez of Seminole State College (Okla.) 7-6 (5), 6-4, and James Strock lost to Josh Patrick of Lake Land College (Ill.) 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) in the No.3 match.
Includes material from a news release
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