Stephen Curry, Jerome Bettis fulfill long-awaited graduation dreams
The Hindu
Stephen Curry and Jerome Bettis – champions in their sports – will added another title on Sunday: college graduates.
Stephen Curry graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina with a bachelor of arts in sociology, and Jerome Bettis finally earned his business degree from Notre Dame.
Curry won’t be on hand to put on the cap and gown. Instead, the three-time NBA champion is with the Golden State Warriors, who will meet either the Phoenix Suns or Dallas Mavericks in the NBA’s Western Conference final.
“Davidson College looks forward to an opportunity on campus in the future when we can present his diploma,” the school posted on Twitter Sunday morning.
Curry, 34, played three seasons at Davidson and left school when the Warriors selected him with the No. 7 overall pick in the 2009 NBA Draft. He was one semester short of graduation.
In its statement on Twitter, Davidson said Curry enrolled in school for the spring semester and worked with two members of the Davidson faculty – one at Stanford and the other at UC Santa Cruz – to finish his degree requirements.
The wait for the diploma was much longer for Jerome Bettis as compared to Stephen Curry, who skipped his senior season to enter the NFL draft in 1993. The Los Angeles Rams selected him with the No. 10 overall pick, and he went on to win the Super Bowl with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Bettis was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015.
Asian Games champion Avinash Sable opened his season in the 3000m steeple chase with a silver in the Portland Track Festival, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze event, in Oregon on Saturday. He clocked 8:21.85s. Asian champion Parul Chaudhary took the bronze in the women’s 3000m steeple chase in a season-best 9:31.38s. Former Asian bronze medallist Sanjivani Jadhav struck gold in the women’s 10,000m in 32:22.77s, a time which was a second off her personal best, while Seema was sixth in 32:55.91s.