Goring Reportedly Will Coach Boston Bruins
The Boston Bruins are expected to announce Monday the appointment of Butch Goring as head coach, the Boston Globe reported.
Goring, 36, a player-assistant coach with the New York Islanders at the start of last season, was traded to Boston in January and served in the same capacity for the Bruins.
General Manager Harry Sinden took over as coach of the Bruins in the middle of the season after he fired Gerry Cheevers.
“I want to coach, and Boston is a great opportunity,” said Goring, adding that he was not interested in a job as player-coach.
Goring had 13 goals and 21 assists in 39 games with the Bruins.
Goring played 11 seasons with the Kings before being traded to the Islanders during the 1979-80 season. He helped the Islanders win four straight Stanley Cup titles.
Veteran Dick Simon had the fastest time Saturday as practice opened for the Indianapolis 500 race May 26 at Indianpolis Motor Speedway.
Simon, 51, turned in a lap of 209.302 m.p.h. in his new March-Cosworth. That eclipsed the day’s previous best of 208.913 by Bobby Rahal.
The first rookie to complete the mandatory test was Arie Luyendyk, 31, a native of the Netherlands. He had a lap of 196.335 in a Lotus-Cosworth.
The official track record is 210.689 m.p.h. by Tom Sneva last year.
Bill Kunkel, an American League umpire and former major league pitcher, died Saturday in Red Bank, N.J., following a four-year battle with cancer. He was 48.
From 1962-64, Kunkel compiled a 6-6 record with the Kansas City Athletics and New York Yankees.
He became an umpire in 1968 and served for a time as a referee in the National Basketball Assn.
Mark Plaatjes, the South African runner who was banned from the Boston Marathon, won a marathon in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in a time five minutes faster than that of the winner in the Boston race.
Plaatjes, a medical student at the University of the Witwatersrand, set a South African record of 2 hours 8 minutes 58 seconds.
Plaatjes was not permitted to compete in last month’s Boston Marathon. South African athletes are barred from international competition because of the country’s policy of apartheid.
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Creighton basketball star Benoit Benjamin said he will pass up his senior year in college to become eligible for the NBA draft June 18. The 7-foot center said his decision was influenced by Wednesday’s resignation of Creighton Coach Willis Reed.
Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers was named the 1984-85 National Hockey League Player of the Year by the Sporting News for an unprecedented fifth straight year.
Pitcher Jerry Koosman of the Philadelphia Phillies was placed on the 15-day disabled list with an inflamed left knee. The Phillies brought up left-hander Dave Rucker from Portland of the Pacific Coast League.
Ayrton Senna of Brazil, driving a Lotus-Renault, won the pole for today’s San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy, with a speed of 129.102 m.p.h.
Former University of Washington swimmer Jack Medica, gold medalist in the 400-meter freestyle in the 1936 Olympics, died of a heart attack in Carson City, Nev. He was 71.