Cooper Replaces Schnellenberger at Louisville

Ron Cooper, who guided Eastern Michigan’s football program the last two years, was hired as Louisville’s new coach Thursday.

Cooper replaces Howard Schnellenberger, who resigned earlier this month to go to Oklahoma. Cooper, one of five black Division I-A head football coaches, was an assistant at Notre Dame for two years before taking over at Eastern Michigan.

At Eastern Michigan, Cooper compiled records of 4-7 his first year and 5-6 this past season. The Mid-American Conference school had won only one game in the two seasons before his arrival.

Jurisprudence

A Sacramento Municipal Court jury returned a guilty verdict in the second trial of a motorist involved in the collision that severely injured Sacramento King guard Bobby Hurley last year.

Daniel Wieland, 37, a Sacramento house painter, faces up to six months in the county jail for the misdemeanor reckless driving conviction. He will be sentenced on Jan. 20.

Wieland was accused of driving without his headlights on the night of Dec. 12, 1993, when Hurley turned in front of Wieland’s station wagon while driving home after a King game.

Moses Scurry, a key player on Nevada Las Vegas’ national championship basketball team in 1990, was sentenced to two years in prison for his role in a carjacking.

Scurry and co-defendant Kevin Williams pleaded guilty last month to felony charges in connection with a carjacking in which the victim was shot.

Water polo

The U.S. junior national team won two games at the North American Junior Water Polo Championships at El Toro High School and advanced to today’s title game.

The U.S. beat Canada 1, 16-7, and Mexico 2, 26-7, and will play the U.S. youth team for the title at 5:30 p.m.