Apple Valley&#8217;s Tyus Jones attempts a three point field goal late in the game during the Class 3AAAA state high school boys&#8217; basketball
Apple Valley's Tyus Jones attempts a three point field goal late in the game during the Class 3AAAA state high school boys' basketball sectional final at Burnsville High School in in Burnsville, Minn., on Friday, March 16, 2012. (Special to Pioneer Press: Chris Kelleher)

Tyus Jones, the nationally recruited point guard from Apple Valley High School, injured a thumb during USA Basketball Under-17 tryouts in Colorado Springs, Colo., and will miss a couple of days. Jones, who will be a junior in the fall, still is expected to make the team that will compete in Spain and Lithuania this summer.

Norwood Teague, who began his new job as Gophers athletics director on Monday, June 18, said he has had "a lot of good" reaction from donors he already has contacted by phone.

"I don't hear a lot of negative right now," the former Virginia Commonwealth AD said. "But I do need to have frank conversations with people. If I do have frank conversations, we'll get to where we want to get a lot quicker. And I've told people that.

"Fundraising does take time. I know people have said that I have had success fundraising, and that was one reason why I was hired. It's hard work; you have to create a vision, sell it, and it doesn't happen overnight."

Frank Quilici, just five weeks after kidney transplant surgery, couldn't make it to Saturday's funeral for former Twins roommate Dave Boswell outside Baltimore.

But Quilici, 73, who roomed with the former 20-game winner for five seasons, was able to express his condolences to Boswell's widow, Lou.

Boswell, 67, one of the Twins' all-time great characters, died of an apparent heart attack in his sleep last week.

"Lou told us they had 77 cars that went to the cemetery, led by Bos' motorcycle club, which he would have loved," Quilici said. "All the kids spoke at the service, and it was a wonderful, wonderful tribute to a crazy kid who touched a lot of people's hearts."

Among those attending the service were participants in Twins fantasy camps that Quilici and Boswell led annually in Fort Myers, Fla.

"Everybody loved the guy," Quilici said.

Tom Mee, 83, the retired Twins public relations director, who worked for the team for 47 years and resides in Prior Lake, said he's doing fine except for a problem with his legs. He's being treated through a program at Mayo Clinic.

Mee and Boswell were close.

"I loved him; he was a super guy," Mee said. "He could party ... but there's nothing wrong with that."

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