Iowa State Univ. AD Jamie Pollard, who suffered a heart attack last week, on Twitter wrote that he was brought to tears when "the swarm of Iowa State fans" following the ISU men's basketball team's upset of Kansas at the Big 12 Championship chanted his name (K.C. STAR, 3/15).
FIFA President Sepp Blatter this morning met with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani after saying that the country must "do more to improve working conditions" around the construction of stadiums for the '22 World Cup (AP, 3/15).
MLB Ambassador for Inclusion Billy Bean yesterday "spoke to Red Sox minor leaguers" about his experiences in baseball, where he felt "the strain of trying to hide his sexual orientation" (BOSTON GLOBE, 3/15).
More than 26,000 participants are expected to take part in today's L.A. Marathon, "which is marking its 30th anniversary" (L.A. TIMES, 3/15). The men's winner was Daniel Limo of Kenya and the women's winner was Olga Kimaiyo, also of Kenya (LATIMES.com, 3/15).
The D-Backs announced that the attendance of 13,032 for yesterday's sold-out Spring Training game against the Giants set the single-game record for Salt River Fields at Talking Stick. It is the second time in a span of a week that the team set a single-game attendance record (D-Backs).
