Morrisonn Re-Signs With Capitals
Capitals defenseman Shaone Morrisonn, left, was awarded $1.975 million in salary arbitration and is under contract with the team for next season.
(By John Mcdonnell -- The Washington Post)
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Washington Capitals defenseman Shaone Morrisonn was awarded $1.975 million in salary arbitration this week and is under contract for next season.
Morrisonn, who is the last player to re-sign, ranked third among Capitals defensemen in ice time last season, averaging more than 20 minutes per game.
In 76 regular season games last season, Morrisonn, 25, recorded 10 points (one goal, nine assists), had 63 penalty minutes and was a plus-4. He earned $900,000 in 2007-08. . . .
The Boston Bruins have bought out the final year of veteran right winger Glen Murray's contract. The Bruins owed Murray, now an unrestricted free agent, $4.15 million for the upcoming season. . . .
The Minnesota Wild avoided a salary arbitration hearing with Pierre-Marc Bouchard by re-signing the right wing to a five-year, $20.4 million contract.
· COLLEGES: The NCAA has accused Texas A&M-Corpus Christi of nine rules violations, including use of ineligible players, recruiting violations in men's basketball and lack of institutional control.
The alleged violations, eight of them major, occurred mainly between 2004 and 2008 in men's basketball, women's volleyball and men's tennis. The NCAA's notice of allegations also accuses Athletic Director Brian Teter of not reporting to the NCAA his knowledge of two ineligible players and later submitting a false self-report regarding one of those players.
The men's basketball program is led by former Tulane and Miami coach Perry Clark, a District native who played at DeMatha. The NCAA alleges an assistant coach made at least 43 impermissible phone calls to four recruits. . . .
Regena Jackson, a player on the Louisiana-Monroe women's basketball team last season, was arrested early yesterday for firing a gun from an apartment balcony, a university spokeswoman said.
Jackson was dismissed from the school. The spokeswoman, Laura Harris, said nobody was hurt.
· HORSE RACING: Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Big Brown turned in his fastest workout since returning to training after his puzzling last-place finish in the Belmont Stakes.
The colt breezed six furlongs in 1:10.86 under exercise rider Michelle Nevin at Aqueduct.
Big Brown is scheduled to return to racing Aug. 3 in the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth.
· AUTO RACING: Scott Dixon took another big step toward a second IndyCar championship, holding off Helio Castroneves for a victory in the Edmonton Indy.
· VOLLEYBALL: The United States upset five-time defending champion Brazil, 25-23, 25-22, 27-25, in Rio de Janeiro to reach the World League final against Serbia.
· SOAP BOX DERBY: Girls had their most dominant showing in the history of the All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio, winning five of six individual titles and sweeping the three major divisions. Courtney Rayle, representing the District, and one month shy of her 17th birthday, became the oldest champion in the Masters Division.
-- From News Services and Staff Reports
