Sports in brief
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, September 18, 2018
TRIATHLON
Bend athlete breaks Wisconsin record — Bend resident Linsey Corbin took first place in Ironman Wisconsin on Sept. 9 in Madison, Wisconsin, setting a new bike and overall course record. Corbin finished the race — which includes a 2.4-mile swim, 114-mile bike ride and 26.2 mile run — in 9 hours, 12 minutes, 39 seconds, completing the bike ride in 4:59:01. Her next closest competitor, fellow American Jennie Hansen, finished nearly 35 minutes after Corbin, posting a time of 9:47:06.
BASKETBALL
Ex-Beaver Eubanks signs 2-way deal with Spurs — Former Oregon State big man Drew Eubanks has signed a two-way deal with the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs. A two-way contract stipulates that a player’s salary is dependent upon the league to which the player is assigned. Eubanks hired an agent and left the Beavers following his junior year in hopes of being selected in the 2018 NBA draft, but he went undrafted. He was quickly snatched up by the Spurs, who signed him as a free agent and gave the forward a chance to play on their summer league squad. While his numbers were modest, the 6-foot-10, 255-pound Eubanks showed a versatile game and some defensive prowess in limited minutes. Evidently that was enough for the Spurs, who will now have a low-risk player on a team-friendly contract, a prospect that they hope to develop into an NBA contributor.
College FOOTBALL
WSU puts ex-QB Gesser on leave — Washington State placed former quarterback and current athletic department employee Jason Gesser on administrative leave Monday after a former Cougar athlete came forward with new allegations that Gesser tried to force himself on her after a fundraising event in 2015. The woman, 27-year-old Alyssa Bodeau, told The Spokesman-Review that she filed the official complaint Monday with the WSU Office for Equal Opportunity after reading a story on Saturday about other allegations brought against the 39-year-old Gesser. The original allegations were made public Thursday by the WSU student newspaper, which documented several allegations of inappropriate advances toward student interns and colleagues that prompted a 2017 investigation by the university. Officials at that time ultimately cleared Gesser of any wrongdoing.
— From wire reports