Baltimore Sun - Jerry’s a football coach, and he’s proven a lot in this league as a special teams coordinator.” Rosburg’s special teams in Atlanta finished the 2007 season ranked second in the NFL in opponents’ average starting field position (25.5) and eighth in

Bob Ford: Circus is in town, and Glendale couldn’t be happier
Philadelphia Inquirer - They wanted it to say ‘Glendale,’ not ‘Phoenix.’ ” But the University of Phoenix, the nationwide, for-profit school aimed at adult education, paid $154 million for the 20-year naming rights, even though it doesn’t have a football team, or any

Super Bowl’s Big Day for TV, Pizza Sales
Newsday - NEW YORK - Super Bowl Sunday may be the biggest day of the year for football fans, but it’s also a big day for people who sell big screen TVs, recliners and pizza. Yes, some sports fans are willing to pay thousands of dollars for a TV just to watch

Sibling revelry
Baltimore Sun - Not surprisingly, Eli credits his parents - one of whom also was a very good NFL quarterback - with creating an environment in which he and his brothers could excel at football without feeling obligated to make it their life’s work. “I think my

Supporters Plan to Buy Liverpool Soccer Club, BBC Reports
Bloomberg - Taylor was quoted as saying “the time is right to offer a different solution to the rising concerns that football fans have about the patterns of ownership developing at our major football clubs.” To contact the reporter on this story

Brutal attack sends builders to their wallets
Seattle Post Intelligencer - He comes off as one gruff dude but construction worker Roy “Otis” Larson, who loves beer, football and his wife, is a big softie. When he heard about the young woman who was savagely beaten with a hammer near the University of Washington campus this

NFL Injury Report
ESPN.com - NEW YORK — The National Football League injury report for the Super Bowl, as provided by the league (OUT - Definitely will not play; DNP - Did not practice; LIMITED - Limited; FULL - Full participation in practice): ^Sunday= NEW YORK GIANTS vs. NEW

Foul call: Umps rip background checks
Boston Globe - year suspended prison sentence for a drunken driving accident that killed a man in Bulgaria . . . James Easter Heathman , the teenager who raced to a field near his family’s central Kansas farm to find the plane crash that killed Notre Dame football

Editors drummer enjoys sightseeing across the USA
Seattle Times - My favorite football team is the Chicago Bears because I used to have a Chicago Bears top; it was a picture of a teddy bear holding a football running along on my Chicago Bears jersey. So I followed them. Then I have the Toronto Maple Leafs because I

No scars of failure for veteran coach’s offensive line
Boston Globe - GLENDALE, Ariz. - After nearly 63 years, 38 football seasons, 6 Patriots head coaches, and 5 Super Bowls, Dante Scarnecchia still lives in fear of one vision: his quarterback pulverized under a pile of voracious defenders who were supposed to be held

Seattle Times - Jerome Stevens, a Husky defensive lineman, was on the field when Curtis Williams was paralyzed in the game against Stanford in 2000. Five years later, Stevens played for the Los Angeles Avengers, an Arena Football League team, when he witnessed

Detroit Free Press - Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg expects to play on Wednesday after missing the last two games of last week’s trip and Sunday’s All-Star Game because of back spasms. But coach Mike Babcock said the way Pavel Datsyuk and Johan Franzen have played

High Schools - Coach taking active role in Paul VI’s success
Philadelphia Daily News - PAUL VI COACH Tony Devlin certainly has reason to jump up and down about his team’s performance so far this season. But forgive Devlin if you don’t see him turning cartwheels or excitedly hopping around. Not because he doesn’t want to; rather, he’s

Barnes gives Bay Shore girls jump on track title
Newsday - had 147 points, followed by Northport (76) and Connetquot (70). BOYS BOWLING SJB wins. Vito Rago rolled a 280 in Game 2 of a 705 series for No. 2 St. John the Baptist in a 1,098-1,015, 1,180-975, 1,101-896 win over No. 7 Holy Trinity in the CHSAA team

Miami Herald - All-Star games are fun events, a chance for players to act like kids and chase down their peers for autographs, and grab hats, T-shirts and extra jerseys to bring home. Sunday’s 56th NHL All-Star Game was no exception, although in the final moments

Philadelphia Inquirer - That makes this one all the more worth telling. Cobb began his college career in the early 1970s at Texas’ Abilene Christian, where he was a football teammate of future Eagles great Wilbert Montgomery. He left school to pursue martial arts (one story

Brady takes a pass
Boston Globe - Football / Patriots FOXBOROUGH - The Patriots continued to play it safe with quarterback Tom Brady yesterday. Brady, who is recovering from a

Duarte on the Longhorns
Houston Chronicle - University of Houston football coach Kevin Sumlin addressed one of the remaining holes in his staff by hiring former Dallas Cowboys player and coach Jim Jeffcoat to handle the defensive line. A formal announcement is expected Monday. Jeffcoat spent

Owls promote assistant D’Onofrio
Philadelphia Daily News - Temple has promoted defensive coordinator Mark D’Onofrio to assistant head coach, head football coach Al Golden announced yesterday. D’Onofrio, 38, will continue in his role as defensive coordinator with additional administrative duties. D’Onofrio

Damascus Is Putting Everything Together
Washington Post - Resize Text Nobody associated with the Damascus boys’ basketball team will do anything brash or obnoxious to make the point, but the Swarmin’ Hornets definitely hope it’s getting across: This isn’t just a football school anymore. “We’ve been under

UW Football | Huskies offer coordinator job to Donatell
Seattle Times - The task of reviving a Washington defense that last season was statistically the worst in school history will apparently fall to Ed Donatell. Several sources told The Seattle Times on Friday that Donatell had been offered the job and was expected to

Racing Day draws drivers, speed fans
Detroit News - Remember that there won’t be any recruiters coming to scout you like in baseball and football. You have to make it on your own. It’s a rough road, but it’s worth it if you stick with it.” And what kind of cars do they drive in real life? “Acura RI

Players indicted in home invasion
Philadelphia Daily News - Two Texas A & M football players accused of tying up and mugging a drug dealer at gunpoint have been indicted on felony robbery charges. Yemi Babalola and Brandon Joiner were indicted Thursday on two counts each of aggravated robbery, the district

ASU football promotes strength coach Hilgart
AZCentral.com - Ben Hilgart has been promoted to head sports performance coach on Dennis Erickson’s football staff at Arizona State. Hilgart was senior assistant for three years under Joe Kenn, who resigned last month to take a similar position at Louisville

Harlan leaves Lambeau with legacy of football, financial success
International Herald Tribune - GREEN BAY, Wis. : Bob Harlan was huddled in a Lambeau Field equipment room with a select few members of the Green Bay Packers’ inner circle on Sunday, awaiting the inevitable: a trophy presentation and a trip to the Super Bowl. The New York Giants

FOXSports.com - ZARAGOZA, Spain (AP) - Real Zaragoza presented Javier Irureta as its new manager on Wednesday. The former Deportivo La Coruna head coach replaces Ander Garitano, who resigned Tuesday siting “personal reasons” after only eight days in charge. Garitano

Still undecided at coach, Redskins interview Zorn for coordinator
Seattle Post Intelligencer - WASHINGTON — A new wrinkle was added to the Washington Redskins’ coaching search Wednesday when Jim Zorn interviewed for the job of offensive coordinator. Zorn, Seattle’s quarterbacks coach for the past seven years, met with owner Dan Snyder at

Stocks On The Move: USB, Coach
CNBC - Following are the day s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of US Bancorp (USB) and Coach (COH) popped while Motorola (MOT) and PetSmart (PETM) dropped. POPS (stocks that jumped higher) US Bancorp (USB) popped 7%. USB, one only one of

ESPN anchor Dana Jacobson disciplined after inappropriate comments at
Philadelphia Inquirer - Jacobson’s speech included obscenities aimed at Notre Dame, with Irish football coach Charlie Weis in attendance. An article in The Press of Atlantic City the next day said that Jacobson “made an absolute fool of herself, swilling vodka from a

Daily Telegraph - Barnet and Swindon play at Underhill for the right to host Bristol Rovers or Fulham.Sagi Burton could make a surprise return to the Barnet bench after the defender recovered quicker than expected from a knee problem. Akpo Sodje is ready to climb off

Cipriani says ‘I’m here to take away Jonny’s shirt’
Guardian Unlimited - If Richards and Sackey do turn out to be long-term absentees, England will probably have to field at least two debutants on their bench against Wales on Saturday week in the absence of any fit capped alternatives. Despite being withdrawn from a

Public borrowing smashes forecasts to hit record high
The Independent - In Germany, the bench-mark Dax index dropped 7 per cent, while Japan’s Nikkei fell 4 per cent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was off 5.5 per cent. The US markets were closed for Martin Luther King Day. “The public finance figures mean that the Government

Mansell leads Rider past Iona in overtime
International Herald Tribune - Gary Springer came off the bench to score 10 points and pull down seven rebounds for the Gaels. The teams traded baskets for most of the game before Camper’s jumper with 23 seconds left gave Iona a 55-54 lead. Springer then made one of two foul shots

Gerrard blames uncertainty surrounding Liverpool’s ownership and
International Herald Tribune - It took Peter Crouch to come off the bench and snatch an equalizer with two minutes remaining. “We should have won the match,” Benitez said. “We failed to score the second goal when we were on top and we were the better side. “That is the recurring

Baltimore Sun - When John Harbaugh told his mother of his career choice, she wept. “Mom, I’m going to give coaching a chance,” said Harbaugh, who’d just finished college with a political science degree. Jackie Harbaugh tried to stay calm. “Are you sure you don’t

As season lengthens, so does casualty list
Boston Globe - No way of telling, because new coach Claude Julien has rarely been able to put on ice the team he had on paper in September. Bumps, bruises, and flulike symptoms too often have gutted the roster. As the last four weeks have underscored, they’re

Temperatures Set to Drop on Pack, Giants
Forbes - Packers coach Mike McCarthy recalled how poorly his team played on Dec. 23 in a 35-7 loss at Chicago, a game that even Favre admitted he was cold throughout. So McCarthy used some frozen balls at practice this week to help simulate likely conditions

Pens’ Crosby Re-Examined, Return Unknown
Forbes - A lot of guys are going to have to pick it up,” Penguins coach Michel Therrien said. With Crosby not available, Evgeni Malkin is being counted upon to be the Penguins’ top scorer. Last year’s NHL rookie of the year has a pair of three-goal games this

Studious Sanders vaults to the head of the class
Boston Globe - No doubt about it, I think James had an outstanding year last year,” said coach Bill Belichick. “There were some ups and downs early in the season, but I think he kind of got in there and did a real good job at safety when Rodney was out, then Rodney

India drop Ganguly for Australia tri series
ESPN.com - The 35-year-old Ganguly has performed well after he was dropped from the one-day and test sides in the wake of a public spat with then coach Greg Chappell two years ago that led to the batsman losing the captaincy. However, the selectors decided to

Wings hope to keep Babcock for years; Possible deals for Cleary, Lilja
Detroit Free Press - SAN JOSE, Calif. — As Mike Babcock talked glowingly Saturday of how much he loves the Red Wings’ annual dads’ trip, it was easy to see how much he likes being the coach of the team. It is a position he is likely to have for some time. While reports

RICH RODRIGUEZ’S U-M CONTRACT: $2.5 million a year; buyout is $4
Detroit Free Press - winning a national championship and appearing in Bowl Championship Series games. The contract is not completed nor signed, and it could take a few more weeks. Officials on both sides say the situation is not unusual for a high-profile football coach

It has Wade, but Heat is worse than Knicks
Newsday - Knicks coach Isiah Thomas, who has his own problems, said: “We never would have thought Miami would have been in this situation, just like we didn’t expect to be in this situation. These are the cards that we were dealt and we just have to go out and

Baltimore Sun - McDaniel College coach Bob Flynn, a fixture on the local basketball scene for more than three decades, died of a massive heart attack Friday night. Flynn, 49, was stricken at his Catonsville home and died at St. Agnes Hospital, across Caton Avenue

Prep Notebook | Evergreen coach chosen to revive Juanita football
Seattle Times - Juanita High School didn’t have to look far for its next football coach. Only about six blocks. Evergreen coach Shaun Tarantola, whose home is in the same Kirkland neighborhood, accepted the Juanita job this week. “He just has this youthful

Source: Ravens want to keep Ryan
Baltimore Sun - The Ravens are in negotiations with Rex Ryan to keep him as the defensive coordinator on new coach John Harbaugh’s staff, an NFL source said. To retain Ryan, the Ravens likely have to give him a significant raise. Ryan is in the final year of a two

He’s finding his comfort zone at UP
Oregonian - Raivio arguably is the Pilots’ best player, but second-year coach Eric Reveno doesn’t want to say that because it doesn’t fit with the “team” philosophy he has been preaching all season. But if Reveno hopes to turn around the Pilots program and

Coach dies after a jog
Baltimore Sun - Wake Forest basketball coach Skip Prosser, who took Loyola to its only NCAA tournament berth, died yesterday afternoon, the university confirmed. Prosser, 56, collapsed in his office and was rushed to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

Rams owner Frontiere dies
Baltimore Sun - Redskins // Washington lost a contender for its coaching vacancy when Seattle defensive backs coach Jim Mora withdrew from consideration. Mora, formerly Atlanta’s coach, is one of five coaches to interview with owner Dan Snyder. Jets // Bill

LIONS NEW COORDINATOR: Jim Colletto wants Damien Woody back, thinks
Detroit Free Press - When the game starts it s chaos, and there s an old coach that I used to work with back at UCLA said, when the ball is snapped you ll hardly know my name, and there s a lot of truth in that. The guys, the more these players can repeat the

FOXSports.com - Neither player was available because of injury at the start of the season when Blackburn won 2-1 at the Riverside on the opening day of the campaign, with Roque Santa Cruz turning the game on his debut when coming off the bench to score with his first

Savage a leading force at Imhotep
Philadelphia Daily News - Imhotep coach Andre Noble said the school’s major focus for now is trying to help Savage improve his SAT score. Long Island U., the Mount, Coppin and New Orleans are among the interested D-I schools while D-II Kutztown is also pushing hard. For Freire

Pa. Boys: Jenkins, McFillin help Washington slip past Fels, 63-61
Philadelphia Inquirer - rout the host Panthers, 79-39. Andrew Randall led the Phoenix with 25 points. Eddie Frazier collected 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Strawberry Mansion to a 94-53 win over visiting Paul Robeson . Frazier was one of 11 Knights players to score

Serbs face stark choice in election
Miami Herald - Seven other candidates are in the running, and polls indicate none will top the 50 percent threshold to score an outright victory on Sunday, making necessary a runoff between the two top finishers. That will most likely be a contest between Tadic and

GameCenter Box Score Full Play-by-Play Recap Live game log
CBS Sportsline - SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -Mike Modano scored his second goal with 7:06 left, and the Dallas Stars further tightened the Pacific Division race with a 4-2 victory over the slumping San Jose Sharks on Thursday night. Marty Turco made 28 saves, Niklas

Bay Area housing prices hit hard
San Francisco Gate - Affordability has definitely improved for first-time home buyers,” Rosen said. “If you have (a) high credit (score), a good job, can put down a good down payment and can document everything, it’s a good time to get a mortgage loan. If (not), you

Silly flaws will drive you crazy
Miami Herald - Had the developers fixed these flaws, Burnout Paradise would have staked its claim in the driving game genre. But with these problems, its a fun game that frustrates. Score: * * System: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Publisher: Electronic Arts Rating: E for