BOXING
Crawford gives Omaha
1st title bout since ’72
SPORTS
SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014
SECTION C
BY TONY BOONE
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Texas-sized Game 7
It’s happening.
World championship boxing is coming to Omaha for
the first time in 42 years.
WBO lightweight champion Terence “Bud” Crawford
will face former Olympic
gold medalist and unified
featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa on June 28 at
the CenturyLink Center.
Crawford’s co-manager,
Shawn Marion and Dallas force a winnertake-all game in their irst-round NBA
playoff series with Kawhi Leonard and San
Antonio after the Mavs’ 113-111 win. The
deciding game between the top-seeded
Spurs and eighth-seeded Mavs is Sunday in
San Antonio. Story, Page 9C
Brian McIntyre, said Friday
that a press conference
officially announcing the
event, which will be televised
on HBO, will take place in
Omaha late next week.
Omaha hasn’t hosted a
world title bout since heavyweight champion Joe Frazier
stopped challenger Ron
Stander at the end of four
rounds at the Civic Auditorium on May 25, 1972.
See Crawford: Page 2
SETON HALL 8, CREIGHTON 2
Dealing aces
TATUM EDWARDS
NEBRASKA
BECCA CHANGSTROM
CREIGHTON
DANA ELSASSER
UNO
Career record
66-25
Career record
72-45
72-4
5
Career record
70-2
70
-24
4
M A R K D AV I S / T H E W O R L D - H E R A L D
Creighton’s Matt Warren dropped to 9-1 for the season, surrendering
six hits and four earned runs in 6 1/3 innings.
Seton Hall hands Warren
first loss, cruises in opener
BY TIM PERERA
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Runs figured to be at a premium in
Friday’s matchup between Creighton
and Seton Hall.
The Bluejays’ Matt Warren and the
Pirates’ Josh Prevost were a combined
18-1 on the season, and each entered the
Big East contest with an ERA below two.
The runs turned out to be not quite
as scarce for Seton Hall. The Pirates
scored five times in the seventh for a
come-from-behind 8-2 win in front of
3,966 at TD Ameritrade Park.
Prevost turned in a three-hitter to
improve to 10-1.
It was the first loss of the season for
Warren (9-1).
Creighton struggled offensively
through five innings. Prevost retired the
Bluejays in order four times and allowed
one hit, needing 44 pitches to get to the
SATURDAY:
SETON HALL
AT CREIGHTON
6:30 p.m.
TD Ameritrade Park
NET1
1620 AM KOZN
MORE ONLINE
See a photo
showcase from
Friday’s game at TD
Ameritrade Park.
Omaha.com/jays
See CU baseball: Page 3
KENTUCKY DERBY
3 p.m. (5:32 post time) Saturday
Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky • NBC
Couple of no-names struck
gold with California Chrome
Owners of Derby
favorite say they’re
‘going to go down in
history’ Saturday
NU’s Edwards, CU’s Changstrom and UNO’s Elsasser give
state’s three D-I teams a senior standout in circle
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)
— The owners of California
Chrome are putting all their
hopes into the chestnut colt
to win the Kentucky Derby.
After all, he’s the only
horse they own.
California Chrome, based
at lesser-known Los Alamitos racetrack in suburban
Los Angeles, is the early 5-2
favorite for Saturday’s 140th
Derby with good reason. He
BY MARJIE DUCEY • WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
T
hey’ve been the faces of their programs for four years. • Nebraska’s Tatum Edwards,
UNO’s Dana Elsasser and Creighton’s Becca Changstrom make up a senior pitching class
that will leave its mark at their schools. • “The irst person any coach would think of is
Dana if you are playing Omaha or Changstrom if you’re playing Creighton,” NU coach Rhonda
Revelle said. “They have been key, key impact players in their programs. Without either of them,
you’d see a different season.” • Edwards, meanwhile, has excelled as a pitcher, hitter and
outielder for the Huskers. • “You are not just graduating one player. Sometimes she does the
work of three players,” Creighton coach Brent Vigness said. “She’s been a handful for us, and I
have a lot of respect for her.” • Creighton and Nebraska will recognize their seniors as they close
the regular season at home this weekend. • See Pitchers: Page 2
has won four straight races
by a combined 24 1⁄4 lengths
under Victor Espinoza, who
won the Derby in 2002 with
War Emblem.
“He’s so light on his feet,”
Espinoza said. “He just does
things so easy and makes my
job easy.”
California Chrome’s owners, Steve Coburn and Perry
Martin, are no Kentucky blue
bloods. They’re a couple of
working stiffs who live near
Reno, Nevada.
“We’re going to go down in
history,” Coburn predicted.
California Chrome is the
product of an $8,000 mare
See Derby: Page 12
MORE INSIDE
Art Sherman may be listed as a first-time trainer, but California
Chrome’s handler has plenty of history in horse racing. Page 12C
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