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SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah man who was once a promising college basketball coach has been arrested after police said he forced the evacuation of an elementary school with what he claimed was a trunk full of explosives, authorities said Tuesday.After three hours of negotiations, no weapons or explosives were found and no injuries were reported at the school about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. About 250 students, along with faculty, were evacuated from Eagle Valley Elementary on Monday afternoon.The suspect, Christopher Dewitt Craig, 35, of Eagle Mountain, was a player and coach until police in Colorado issued a warning about three years ago saying hed been describing himself as an Islamist jihadist. The warning came months after his resignation from a head coaching job at Midland College in Texas.Craig drove up to the school in Eagle Mountain, Utah, on Monday wearing a long, light-green tunic, a white cloth wrapped around his head and a knit face mask, police said.He told a school secretary to evacuate the building, then spoke to police negotiators about the evils of society, and unspecified mistreatment before he surrendered himself, said Utah County Sheriffs Sgt. Spencer Cannon.Craigs motives are still under investigation, but may be related to mental health issues, he said. Police also believe he sent emails to several news organizations shortly before the threat decrying what he called racism against white police officers, among other things.No attorney was immediately listed for Craig in court records, and no publicly listed phone number for him was immediately available.Those who knew him described a talented coach whose career was on the rise before it was apparently derailed by personal struggle, according to the El Paso Times.This is an American tragedy, Rus Bradburd, a former assistant basketball coach at the University of Texas at El Paso, told the paper. He just needs help. Its heartbreaking.Craig was a player at UTEP and Arizona Western College in Yuma, Arizona, before he went into coaching.He served as head basketball coach at whats now Utah State University Eastern in Price, Utah, from 2007 to 2010. He went on to become an assistant at Northern Colorado University, and then served as head coach in Midland College in Texas before he resigned in 2013 for personal reasons.Several more run-ins with the law followed, including an arrest in Price the next year after police said he drove his car onto a school playground.Craig was booked into the Utah County Jail on Monday for investigation of making a threat of terrorism, interfering with an arresting officer, failure to disclose identity, disrupting operations of a school and disorderly conduct. Hes been held on $25,000 cash-only bail.---This story has been corrected to show a previous arrest in Utah connected to allegations of driving onto a school playground was in Price, not Eagle Mountain.Michael Jordan Jersey . LOUIS -- Theres no telling how these wacky World Series games will end. Bo Jackson Jersey . 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"Today really is a dream come true because you grow up an Astros fan if youre in Houston. Everybodys got their hometown team, and the Astros were mine. This is just a very special day." Astros owner Jim Crane certainly appreciates having the Ryan name associated with his team again, but was quick to point out that Reid Ryan is much more than simply the son of a famous ball player. "Its great to have your kid in the business, but now he can prove himself as Reid Ryan," Crane said. "His dads is a famed player, a very, very famous guy, but Reids the kind of guy that stands on his own, and I think youll see him stand alone in this position and do a great job." Since 1998, Ryan, the eldest son of Nolan Ryan, has been the CEO of Ryan-Sanders Baseball, which owns the Triple-A Round Rock Express and Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks. The 41-year-old Reid Ryan helped create the Express, an affiliate of the Texas Rangers and the Hooks, an Astros affiliate. Don Sanders, who co-owns Ryan-Sanders Baseball with Nolan Ryan, raved about Reid Ryan. He pointed out the work he did in luring fans to see his teams, which have often been ranked at the top of the minor leagues in attendance. Reid Ryan also came up with the idea for the Rangers to play two exhibition games at the Alamodome in San Antonio in March that drew more than 75,000 fans. "If I were going to buy a baseball team and I could have anybody in the country to run it, hed be the guy," Sanders said. "Hes just awfully good. I dont know that in this arena that anybody is any better." Reid Ryan takes over a job where he will be tasked with helping increase attendance and win back disillusioned fans to a team that has finished with 100 losses in each of the last two seasons and has the worst record in the majors again this year. He acknowledged that Houstons problems are complex and that theres no way he could know how he will work to get things back on track on his first day. But he did share a couple of keys that he will focus on. &"We have to put the fans first in everything we do and then weve got make sure were taking care of the players, because its all about the players," Reid Ryan said.dddddddddddd. "If you dont have the players, youre really not going to have anything." While the team has been baseballs worst for the last couple years, Reid Ryan has been impressed with how the infusion of quality prospects from Houstons many recent trades has improved the organizations farm system. "We had a stretch where we finished last five years in a row in Corpus Christi, and it was tough and we didnt have a lot of prospects," Reid Ryan said. "Then (general manager) Jeff (Luhnow) started making some of the hard decisions he made ... now theres a lot of talent, a lot more than Ive seen in my time with the Astros." His father played for the Astros from 1980-88 and spent four years beginning in 2004 as a special assistant to the general manager in Houston before joining the front office of the Texas Rangers. His famous dad and former Astros great Craig Biggio were on hand Friday for the announcement. Though Nolan Ryan now works for Houstons in-state rival about 200 miles up the road, he still has a keen interest in the team he once played for. "He grew up an Astros fan. Im still an Astros fan. I follow them on a day-to-day basis," Nolan Ryan said. "Im very connected to the team and very connected to what goes on here in Houston with the baseball climate. So thats a part of us and will always be a part of us." Nolan Ryan said he hasnt shared any advice with his son about his new job, but he is very excited to see his son working for his former team. "Youre very proud when you see one of your children get an opportunity of this nature," Nolan Ryan said. "Im very proud of the fact that our kids grew up in baseball and have a relationship with baseball and enjoy it and want to be associated with it. So that makes you feel good." The younger Ryan takes over the position that was left vacant when George Postolos resigned on Monday. Also on Friday, Crane announced that he had agreed to a letter of intent to buy the Hooks. The sale is pending MLB and Ryan-Sanders shareholders approval. The Astros plan to assume control of operations of the Hooks at the end of the 2013 season. ' ' '