Sport sponsorship: Edinboro University of Pennsylvania announced April 10 that it will discontinue baseball and men's and women's tennis after this spring. The university's announcement said the cuts were made in response to reduced funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. "We have taken a long and careful look at our budget projections for the next several years," Edinboro President Frank Pogue said. "It is clear that this action today is among those we need to take now in order to prepare for an increasingly difficult budget picture." Athletics Director Bruce Baumgartner said that all athletics grants-in-aid provided to student-athletes in the affected sports will be honored. The university also will assist those student-athletes who choose to transfer. Those individuals will be immediately eligible to compete if they are in good academic standing. Edinboro, a member of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, will continue to offer six men's sports and eight women's programs.

Milestones: Tommy Thomas, in his 36th season as Valdosta State University baseball coach, reached a major career milestone April 19 when his Blazers beat Lincoln Memorial University to make the veteran coach the all-time winningest coach in the history of Division II baseball. With the victory, Thomas had 1,199 career victories, which surpassed the mark of John Scolino, who won 1,198 games over 44 seasons at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Thomas has for many years been the winningest active Division II baseball coach. Only four times in Thomas' previous 35 years have the Blazers finished below .500; three of those times were when Thomas was handling athletic director's duties for eight other sports in addition to his baseball duties. Twenty-three of his 35 teams have reached postseason play, and eight teams have made it to the national tournament. The 1979 club won the university's only national championship. Thomas was selected national coach of the year after that championship season.

Facilities: The new Home Depot National Training Center will open on the University of California, Dominguez Hills, campus in June. Designed by the California office of Michigan-based Rossetti Architects, the 85-acre, $140 million facility is a multisport national training and event complex, highlighted by back-to-back tennis and soccer stadiums. The facility features the only roofed outdoor soccer stadium in the country (seating 27,000). The tennis stadium seats 13,000. Also under construction is a fully enclosed Olympic-training velodrome, and an Olympic-quality track and field facility. The venue will be used by Cal State Dominguez Hills teams as well as the Los Angeles Galaxy (Major League Soccer), San Diego Chargers (National Football League) and the United States Soccer Federation. It also will host a major international track and field event in June and the JP Morgan Chase open women's tennis tournament in August.