IndyCar driver Robert Wickens will have surgery for a spinal injury suffered in a crash at Pocono Raceway.
IndyCar said in a statement the 29-year-old Canadian was scheduled for surgery Monday night in an Allentown hospital. The series was not expected to issue another immediate update on his condition.
Wickens was airlifted from the racetrack following a crash in the opening laps of Sunday's race. IndyCar said he suffered injuries to his lower extremities, right arm and spine, and a pulmonary contusion.
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Texas settles lawsuit with former coach
Texas agreed to pay $600,000 to settle former women's track coach Bev Kearney's race and gender discrimination lawsuit. Kearney and the school agreed to settle her nearly five-year-old lawsuit in June.
Kearney will receive about $277,450 with the rest going to her attorneys.
Kearney was forced out of her job in 2013 after the school learned she had a relationship with an athlete a decade earlier. Kearney, who is black, had claimed she was treated differently than former Texas assistant football coach Major Applewhite, who was allowed to keep his job and was later promoted after the school learned he had a relationship with a student trainer on a bowl trip. Applewhite is now the head coach at Houston.
... Florida State athletic director Stan Wilcox is leaving for the NCAA, filling the job vacated when Oliver Luck left to run the new XFL.
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Tennis: Former top-10 player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga pulled out of the U.S. Open because of an injured left knee. He'll be replaced in the field by James Duckworth of Australia.
