For The Record

Shattered

By distance runner Chris Solinsky, 25, at Stanford's Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational, the nine-year-old American record in the 10,000 meters. Solinsky (above), who ran for Wisconsin and now competes for Nike, clocked in at 26:59.60 in the first 10K of his life last Saturday, breaking Meb Keflezighi's record by more than 14 seconds and becoming the first non-African-born runner to crack the 27-minute barrier. His effort is the latest in a series of U.S. distance breakthroughs that include Olympic medals by Deena Kastor (marathon bronze in 2004), Keflezighi (marathon silver in '04) and Shalane Flanagan (10,000-meter bronze in '08); top finishes by Ryan Hall in international marathons; and Dathan Ritzenhein's U.S. record of 12:56.27 last summer in the 5,000 meters.

Protested

By the Major League Baseball Players Association, the immigration statute passed on April 19 by the state of Arizona—home of the Diamondbacks and 11 spring training facilities—which permits law-enforcement officials to demand residence papers from anyone suspected of being in the state illegally. Last Friday the MLBPA issued a statement seeking repeal or modification of the law, citing its potential negative impact on a sport in which 28% of players on MLB's Opening Day rosters were foreign-born. Baseball is now said to be discussing moving the 2011 All-Star Game away from its scheduled venue, Chase Field (home of the Diamondbacks), which last week saw protestors picketing the legislation. "In most cases you won't want to see baseball get involved in politics," said Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett, an MLBPA rep, "but it can be unavoidable."

Named

As the NCAA's next president, succeeding the late Myles Brand, 57-year-old Mark Emmert, most recently president of the University of Washington. By his own description an "average" multisport athlete while growing up in Fife, Wash., Emmert earned a B.A. in political science from Washington in 1975 and a Ph.D. in public administration from Syracuse in '83, then began making what he calls his "lap around America," including teaching and administrative posts at Northern Illinois, Colorado, Montana State, Connecticut, LSU—where he hired Nick Saban—and back to Washington; he championed sports at every stop. That odyssey, Emmert told SI's Kelli Anderson, taught him that there's no one-size-fits-all answer to integrating sports into a university's ecosystem. "The way it's done at Montana State is different from the way it's done at Syracuse or LSU," Emmert says. "Yet the games themselves—and this is where the NCAA comes in—have to have the same integrity, consistency and fairness everywhere."

Arrested

And charged with first-degree murder in the suspected killing of a Virginia women's lacrosse player, 22-year-old George Huguely (above, right), a senior midfielder on the school's men's team, ranked No. 2 in the nation. Charlottesville police responded to a report of a possible alcohol overdose at the apartment of 22-year-old Yeardley Love at 2:15 a.m. on Monday; they discovered Love, a senior defender on the fourth-ranked Cavaliers, deceased of undetermined causes but showing signs of physical trauma. Nearly four hours later authorities arrested Huguely, who reportedly had been romantically involved with the victim, at his apartment and charged him with the killing. Police said on Monday that there were no other suspects.

Died

At age 85 of complications from pancreatic cancer, American Olympic champion diver Victoria Manalo, who became the first woman to win gold in the springboard and platform competitions in the same Games, which she accomplished in London in 1948. Born to immigrant parents—her father was from the Philippines, her mother from England—Manalo faced the hurdle of her then controversial mixed background: At age 17, she once told the San Francisco Chronicle, she was denied access to a Bay Area swimming and diving club on account of her last name, which she would change for two years to Taylor. She later paired up with renowned diving coach Lyle Draves, whom she married in '46 and under whose tutelage she medaled two years later, making her the first Asian-American to do so in any sport.