Mike Redmond to manage Miami Marlins
MIAMI, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Mike Redmond, who played seven seasons with the Marlins, has been hired to manage the Miami Marlins, the National League team said Thursday.
Redmond, 41, was reportedly the first person Marlins' front office personnel interviewed after Ozzie Guillen was fired Oct. 23. He will be making the move from managing Class A Dunedin in the Toronto organization to managing in the major leagues.
Redmond played seven of his 13 major-league seasons with the Marlins. He was the back-up catcher on the team when it won the World Series in 2003. He also played for Minnesota and ended his playing career in Cleveland in 2010.
He will be the Marlins' 13th full-time manager and fourth person to lead the team since Fredi Gonzalez was fired in 2010. Edwin Rodriguez managed the team in 2010-2011, with Jack McKeon taking over for the last 90 games of the 2011 season. Guillen lasted one season, in which Miami went 69-93.
Tsonga win in Paris nets spot in London
PARIS, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won a two-tiebreaker match Thursday that put in him both the quarterfinals of the Paris Masters and the ATP World Tour Finals.
Tsonga, the No. 6-seed in Paris, got past 11th-seeded Nicolas Almagro 7-6, (7-4), 7-6 (7-3). It locked up the seventh spot in the eight-player Tour Finals invitational next week in London for Tsonga.
Almagro didn't face a break point but also wasn't able to finish off any of this three break chances as both players won more than three-quarters of the points on serve.
Tsonga edged ahead in the tiebreakers, building a 6-2 lead in the second before ending the match. He is now 6-0 lifetime versus Almagro.
That result also allowed Janko Tipsarevic to qualify for London, since Almagro was the only player with a chance to catch him. Tipsarevic, seeded eighth, defeated ninth-seeded Juan Monaco 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 by converting the only break-point opportunity of the third set in his Thursday match.
Qualifier Jerzy Janowicz, No. 69 in the world, saved a match point in ousting third-seeded Andy Murray 5-7, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2. Janowicz had two third-set breaks to put Murray away.
That means for the first time since the 2010 Paris Masters, there will be a Masters champion other than Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal or Murray. Those four divided up the nine Masters titles last year and the eight to date in 2012.
There was one match to be played Thursday as No. 4 David Ferrer took on 16th-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka in the final third-round match.
Also Thursday, fifth-seeded Tomas Berdych got by Kevin Anderson 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 but wild-card entrant Michael Llodra eliminated seventh-seeded Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 6-3 and Sam Querrey topped 14th-seeded Milos Raonic 6-3, 7-6 (7-1). Gilles Simon advance in a walkover when 15th-seed Kei Nishikori had an ankle injury.
Berdych will go against Simon and Tipsarevic draws Janowicz in one half of the draw Friday while Llodra faces Querrey and Tsonga plays either Ferrer or Wawrinka in the other.
San Diego-Marist football game postponed
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The football game this week between the University of San Diego and Marist has been postponed because of travel issues related to Hurricane Sandy.
The game was to have been played Saturday at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. While Marist's facilities weren't severely damaged by the hurricane, flights that would have taken the San Diego team to New York were canceled.
School officials said they were trying to reschedule the game.
San Diego (5-3, 4-1) is in third place in the Pioneer Football League while Marist is 3-5 overall and 2-3 in the conference.
Officials postponed a game scheduled for Wednesday in which Central Connecticut State was to have played at Monmouth in West Long Branch, N.J. That game is unlikely to be rescheduled, Monmouth said.
OSU's Olukemi granted extra season
STILLWATER, Okla., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Oklahoma State basketball player Jean-Paul Olukemi, who missed most of last season with a knee injury, has been given another year of eligibility by the NCAA.
Olukemi appeared in 13 games last season before suffering a season-ending torn anterior-cruciate ligament.
He is a junior college transfer who sat out the 2009-10 season as a red shirt. In the 2010-11 season he averaged 11.1 points and 4.1 rebounds a game. He averaged 9.4 points and 4.8 rebounds before his injury last season.
"We would like to thank the NCAA for its due diligence in this matter," Oklahoma State Coach Travis Ford said. "Looking out for the student-athlete and their best interest should be what's most important, and it certainly showed in this decision."
Oklahoma State opens its 2012-13 season Nov. 9 against California-Davis.
