New Mexico tabs UC San Diego’s Eric Olen to replace Richard Pitino

New Mexico hired UC San Diego’s Eric Olen on Sunday as its next basketball coach. Olen will replace Richard Pitino, who left to become Xavier’s coach on Tuesday. “Eric is a proven winner with an incredible track record,” New Mexico athletic director Fernando Lovo said in a statement.

Torpedo-shaped bats draw attention after Yankees hit team-record 9 homers in rout of Brewers

New torpedo bats drew attention when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers that traveled a combined 3,695 feet on Saturday. Using a strikingly different model in which wood is moved lower down the barrel after the label and shapes the end a little like a bowling pin, Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger, Austin Wells, Anthony Volpe and Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered in New York’s 20-9 rout of the Milwaukee Brewers. “That’s just trying to be the best we can be,” manager Aaron Boone said Sunday.