Rangers Name Colin as Successor to Keenan

Colin Campbell, an assistant under former coach Mike Keenan, was named coach of the Stanley Cup champion New York Rangers.

Campbell, who ended an 11-year NHL playing career in 1985, joined the Rangers as an assistant under Roger Neilson in 1990. Before that, he had spent five years as an assistant in Detroit.

In his only head coaching experience, he replaced Ron Smith with Binghamton of the American Hockey League in 1993 when Smith was called to New York to take over after Neilson was fired. Binghamton was 29-8-5 under Campbell.

Keenan, citing breach of contract by the Rangers, took a job with the St. Louis Blues earlier this summer in a move that got him fined and suspended by the NHL.

Miscellany

Australia defeated the Dominican Republic, 3-0, in the World Amateur Baseball Championships at Managua, Nicaragua, knocking the Caribbean baseball power out of the competition.