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SPORTSTHE SUN 4D MONDAY 01.09.2006 HOW TO REACH US SPORTS DEPARTMENT THE DAY'S STATE, NATIONAL AND WORLD SPORTS NEWS FOR THE RECORD 77-74-72-297 73-75-76-297 73-79-75-298 72-74-77-298 70-78-75-299 YOUNG WILL ENTER NFL DRAFT Edwards reportedly agrees to a four-year, $12 million contract to coach Chiefs GOING, GOING Thirty years ago today, San Francisco Giants ownership sold the franchise to interests who were going to move the team. Where was the team headed before San Francisco Mayor George Moscone got a preliminary injunction to prevent the relocation? Answer below Petrovic, $150,000 74-Short, $150,000 73-Toms, $130,000 71 Ogilvy, $130,000 75-Bohn, $110,000 76' Calcavecchia, $110,000 73-74-73-79-299 Gamez, $94,000 77-Browne, $94,000 69-Perry, $87,000 74-Choi, $87,000 75' Pettersson, $84,000 71-85-75-74-305 Pnrdy, $82,000 73- 76-73-75-301 76- 76-80-301 77- 77-74-302 74-77-76-302 ASTROS Reached preliminary agreement with Trever Miller on one-year contract. REDS Agreed to one-year contract with 2B Rich Aurilia. 75-77-81-306 81-78-76-309 78-75-74-309 78-78-75-310 82-78-76-312 79-80-82-318 80-81-79-320 Slocnm, $79,000 Faxon, $79,000 Crane, $76,000 Funk, $74,000 O'Hair, $72,000 Gore, $70,000 ROCKETS Re-signed John Lucas to 10-day contract. EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic LOT Phila.

27 8 6 N.Y. Rang. 23 12 7 KANSAS CB-WR Charles Gordon will forgo senior season to enter NFL draft. TEXAS QB Vince Young will forgo senior season to enter NFL draft. New Jersey 19 18 5 2 9 18 21 11 21 LOT said he thought Young should have stayed at Texas another year.

"He is very, very similar to Randall Cunningham," Brandt said. "Had he waited, he probably would've been a better player. All quarterbacks get better with the more experience they get. Going from college football to the NFL is about like going from eighth grade to being a graduate student at MIT." CHIEFS Former New York Jets coach Herman Edwards has reached an oral agreement in principle with Kansas City on a four-year, $12 million dollar contract to become their head coach, ESPN.com reported. Edwards, 51, will receive a raise over the $2 million per year that he was making as Jets coach.

The Chiefs received permission Friday morning to talk with Edwards after the NFL office gave the OK for the Chiefs to compensate the Jets with a fourth-round choice in the 2006 draft. BUCCANEERS Fullback Mike Alstott said that he will spend the next few weeks considering his future, ESPN.com reported. PACKERS Brett Favre's agent said in a television interview that the quarterback is more likely to return for another season if Steve Mariucci were named the Packers' next coach. ARREST Former Carolina Panthers linebacker Mark Fields was arrested late last month in Scottsdale, on drunken driving charges after his car was seen drifting out of his lane of traffic, police said. MIGHTY DUCKS Traded FPetrSy-kora and 2007 fourth-round draft choice to Rangers for Maxim 28 9 27 13 24 15 19 15 16 19 3 2 3 6 6 N.Y.

Isl. Pittsburgh Northeast Ottawa Buffalo Toronto Montreal Boston Southeast Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay Florida LOT 27 10 4 20 18 6 21 19 3 17 22 6 Vince Young said his stellar performance in the Rose Bowl put him "over the top" about leaving Texas for the NFL draft. ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington 13 23 WESTERN CONFERENCE GF GA 150 124 129 106 123 133 127 149 119 162 GF GA 167 97 136 124 137 130 117 131 121 131 GF GA 151 129 158 156 127 135 115 142 112 158 GF GA 156 111 130 117 106 147 92 150 103 150 GF GA 112 106 138 132 141 130 159 141 121 105 GF GA 139 109 153 126 116 116 119 126 123 124 yesterday morning and fully supports Young's decision. "We love Vince and appreciate all the great things he's done for the University of Texas on and off the field," Brown said. "We'll miss him, but want him to do as well in the NFL as he did in college." In his eight seasons at Texas, Brown never before has had a player leave early for the NFL.

Young ends his career at Texas with a 30-2 record the best in school history. His Rose Bowl performance increased speculation that he would leave school early. Young's hometown Houston Texans have the first pick. Gil Brandt, longtime Cowboys personnel director and current NFL.com draft analyst, called Young a likely top five pick but Central LOT Detroit 28 11 3 Nashville 26 12 3 Chicago 13 24 4 Columbus 13 27 2 St. Louis 10 24 5 Northwest LOT Calgary 25 12 5 Vancouver 23 14 5 Edmonton 23 15 4 Colorado 23 17 3 Minnesota 20 18 4 Pacific LOT Dallas 27 12 2 Los Angeles 27 15 2 Anaheim 18 16 7 Phoenix 20 20 2 San Jose 18 16 5 BOYS BASKETBALL CALVERT HALL 67, GORETTI 46 CH-McCleave 5, Wojnowski 8, Jarc-zynski 6, Frederick 22, Dnpree 14.

Totals 15 20-31 67. G-Brashears 7, Alencherry 2, Breslin 10, Bolinger 4, Chambers 14, Johnson 9. Totals 16 13-16 46. Half: CH, 36-32. MCDONOGH 63, ST.

JOHN'S-PH 57 Herbert 15, Sheppard 6, Yermal 17, Summers 19, Davenport 2, Ventura 2, Banks 2. Totals 26 6-9 63. SJPH-Henry 10, Vann 17, Houston 6, Rhodes 8, Smedley 6, Stansbnry 2, Epps 8. Totals 24 9-14 57. Half: 30-27.

MOUNT CARMEL 63, PALLOTTI 59 MC-Baylor 2, Wheeler 8, Kucinskas 8, McNair4, King 10, Franklin 14, Zuffa 11, Franks 6. Totals 25 9-17 63. P-Hamlet 6, Whatley 8, Gay 10, Miranda 3, Bluford 19, Washington 11, Dongille 6. Totals 20 12-23 59. Half: 33-31.

MOUNT ST. JOSEPH 56, TOWSON CATHOLIC 55 TC -Delaney 19, D. Greene 8, Edwards 14, Nicholson 7, B. Greene 4, Bastfield 3Totals 19 13-19 55. MSJ-Adams 8, Goodwin 8, Swecker 13, Gregory 13, McCoy 2.

Totals: 21 12-18 56. Half: MSJ, 29-27. ST. FRANCES 53, SPALDING 45 SF-Mosley 15, Thomas 11, Bradshaw 12, Brooks 8, Alexander 7. Totals 20 9-16 53.

Young 18, Moore 17, Bald 6, Quinn 2, Davis 2. Totals 16 10-12 45. Half: SF, 23-16. Caps lose 4th straight, 4-3 Vince Young is headed to the NFL. The Texas quarterback, who led the Longhorns to their first national championship in 36 years, announced yesterday he would make himself eligible for the April draft.

Young maintained during the season that he would to return for his senior year, but said his Rose Bowl performance put him "over the top." "Hard work has paid off a whole lot," he said. Young was spectacular in Texas' 41-38 Rose Bowl win over top-ranked Southern California on Wednesday, and he would have been a favorite to win the Heis-man Trophy had he decided to return. The versatile quarterback accounted for 467 yards against USC 200 running and 267 passing and ran 8 yards for the winning touchdown with 19 seconds left. Young thanked many people, including his family and coach Mack Brown, who was at the American Football Coaches Association Convention and could not attend yesterday's news conference. He specifically thanked Brown for "helping me become a better man." In a statement, Brown said he met with Young and his family DIGEST Women's group says Paterno should resign A leader from the women's rights group NOW has asked Joe Paterno to resign over comments the Penn State football coach made about an alleged sexual assault.

Joanne Tosti-Vasey the president of the National Organization for Women in Pennsylvania, said yesterday that she was "appalled" by Paterno's comments. Paterno's remarks came a day before the Orange Bowl, when a reporter asked about Florida State linebacker A.J. Nicholson, who was accused of sexual assault and sent home. Paterno replied by talking about past suspensions of Penn State players. He then added: "There's some tough there's so many people gravitating to these kids.

He may not have even known what he was getting into, Nicholson. They knock on the door; somebody may knock on the door; a cute girl knocks on the door. What do you do?" "Geez. I hope thank God they don't knock on my door because I'd refer them to a couple of other rooms," Paterno continued. "But that's too bad.

You hate to see that. I really do. You like to see a kid end up his football career. He's a heck of a football player, by the way; he's a really good football player. And it's just too bad." Tosti-Vasey issued a news release calling for Paterno to apologize and step down.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Florida 4, Washington 3, SO Dallas 6, Detroit 3 Nashville 5, Chicago 1 Columbus 5, Phoenix 2 TODAY'S GAMES Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m. Dallas at Minnesota, 8 p.m. St. Louis at Colorado, 9 p.m. Los Angeles at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m.

SATURDAY'S RESULTS N.Y. Rangers 4, Florida 0 Montreal 4, Ottawa 1 Colorado 3, Columbus 2, SO Boston 6, Tampa Bay 3 Toronto 3, Edmonton 2 Carolina 3, N.Y. Islanders 0 New Jersey 3, Buffalo 2 Atlanta 4, Pittsburgh 3 Minnesota 4, Anaheim 1 Vancouver 4, Calgary 3, OT San Jose 3, Los Angeles 2 Roberto Luongo made two shootout saves, Nathan Horton and Joe Nieuwendyk scored shootout goals and the Florida Panthers beat the Washington Capitals, 4-3, at the MCI Center yesterday. Dainius Zubrus had two goals and Jamie Heward also scored for Washington, which squandered a 2-0 lead and has dropped four straight. Alex Ovechkin had two assists.

"We had a jump at the beginning of the game," Zubrus said. "We were playing well and then, just like a couple of games ago, we got into trouble with penalties. Seems like a broken record." Brooks Laich scored a shootout goal for the Capitals, but Luongo made a kick save on Ovechkin and batted away Brian Willsie's shot with his left hand. Heward's slap shot gave Washington a 1-0 lead 19 seconds into the game, and Zubrus got his 100th career goal on a power play to make it 2-0 at 3:57. Florida got goals from Jokinen on successive power-play opportunities 50 seconds apart midway through the second period for a 3-2 lead.

Zubrus' man-up goal tied it with 7:17 left in STARS 6, RED WINGS 3 Jere Lehtinen scored two goals and visiting Dallas overcame a three-goal deficit to beat Detroit. The Red Wings scored twice in the first 92 seconds of the second period to take a 3-0 lead before Dallas PREDATORS 5, BLACKHAWKS Yank Perreault had two goals and Steve Sullivan scored on a third-period penalty shot to help visiting Nashville hand Chicago its 10th straight loss. The losing streak is the Blackhawks' longest since a team-record 12-game slide at the end of the 1950-51 season. BLUE JACKETS 5, COYOTES 2 Bryan Berard scored three power-play goals for his first career hat trick to lead visiting Columbus past Phoenix. The Blue Jackets ended a three-game losing streak despite being outshot 34-15.

RANGERS The New York Rangers obtained forward Petr Sykora and a 2007 fourth-round draft choice from the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in exchange for defenseman Maxim Kondratiev Sykora, 29, has scored at least 20 goals in each of his last six NHL seasons. He had seven goals and 13 assists in 34 games with Anaheim this season. Kondratiev, 22, appeared in 29 games with the Rangers this season, with one goal and two assists. BOYS BASKETBALL DnBois at Patterson, 5:15 Oakland Mills at Centennial, 5:30 Urbana at Mount Hebron, 5:30 McDonogh at Glenelg, 6 Bohemia Manor at Joppatowne, 7 Howard at Old Mill, 7 Perry Hall at Bel Air, 7 GIRLS BASKETBALL Dnndalkat Loch Raven, 5 Owings Mills at Park, 5:15 Patterson at DnBois, 5:15 John Carroll at NDP, 5:30 Key at St. Timothy's, 5:30 McDonogh at Mercy, 5:30 Mount Carmel at Garrison Forest, 5:30 Oldfieldsat Lutheran, 5:30 Perry Hall at Bel Air, 5:30 St.

Frances at Roland Park, 5:30 Towson Catholic at Bryn Mawr, 5:30 AACS at Severn, 6 Glenelg CS at Beth Tfiloh, 6 Joppatowne at Hereford, 6:30 Seton Keongh at St. John's-PH, 6:30 Centennial at Urbana, 7 Eastern Tech at Overlea, 7 WRESTLING Fallston, Winters Mill at South Carroll, 4 Appleby ousts Singh in playoff 2-under 71. Two groups ahead of him, Singh surged into the lead with a 7-under 66, the best score of the tournament and nine shots better than the PANTHERS 4, CAPITALS 3 (Florida won shootout, 2-1) Florida 1 2 0 0 -4 Washington 2 0 10-3 First period -1, Washington, Heward 6 (Ovechkin, Clark), :19. 2, Washington, Zubrus 9 (Pettinger, Ovechkin), 3:57 (pp). 3, Florida, Hill 2 (Horton, Roberts), 17:25.

Penalties Jokinen, Fla (hooking), Montador, Fla, major (fighting), Bradley, Was, major (fighting), Globke, Fla (delay of game), Heward, Was (hooking), Eminger, Was (interference), Roberts, Fla (roughing), 18:47. Second period 4, Florida, Jokinen 19 (Horton, Nienwendyk), 10:16 (pp). 5, Florida, Jokinen 20 (Nienwendyk, Bouwmeester), 11:06 (pp). Penalties Van Ryn, Fla (interference), Eminger, Was (holding), Laich, Was (high-sticking), Witt, Was (roughing), Bouwmeester, Fla (hooking), Washington bench, served by Ovechkin (too many men), 19:00. Third period 6, Washington, Zubrus 10 (Muir, Biron), 12:43 (pp).

Penalties Globke, Fla (holding), Globke, Fla (hooking), Zubrus, Was (hooking), Horton, Fla (hooking), Horton, Fla (roughing), 15:47. Overtime-None. Penalties None. Shootout-Florida 2 (Jokinen NG, Horton Nienwendyk G); Washington 1 (Laich Ovechkin NG, Willsie on goal -Florida 17-15-8-2-42. Washington 13-9-10-4-36.

Power-play opportunities Florida 2 of Washington 2 of 9. Goalies Florida, Luongo 17-18-6 (36 shots-33 saves). Washington, Kolzig 11-17-4 (42-39). A 2:35. Stuart Appleby had to go an extra hole to make it three in a row at the Mercedes Championships in Kapalua, Hawaii, making a birdie on the par-5 18th to force a playoff against Vijay Singh, then winning on the same hole with a bunker shot that nearly went in.

Appleby joined Gene Littler in 1955-57 as the only players to win the winners-only tournament three straight times, and none of them was easy. "This one was the hardest," said Appleby, who went from a two-shot lead to a two-shot deficit Sunday before birdieing two of the last four holes for a green into the back bunker, then blasted out and watched the ball tickle over the rim of the cup before settling 2 feet away. Singh's birdie putt stayed right the whole way, and Appleby holed his short putt to win. ROYAL TROPHY Europe won the inaugural team tournament in Bangkok, Thailand, holding off Asia, 9-7, behind the strong play of Graeme McDowell, Paul McGinley and Henrik Stenson. After dominat-ing foursomes and fourball matches, 6-2, Saturday, Europe needed just 2Vi points from the eight singles competition to win.

Asia captured yesterday's play, 5-3, at Amata Spring Country Club. APPLEBY average score in the final round. But in the playoff, Singh's approach caught a soft bounce and stayed short of the green, and his 100-foot eagle putt stopped 9 feet short. Appleby hit 3-iron through the EARLY ENTRIES Antonio Cromartie, DB, Florida State Vernon Davis, TE, Maryland Maurice Drew, RB-KR, UCLA Ray Edwards, DE, Purdue Charles Gordon, WR-CB, Kansas Devin Hester, WR-KR, Miami Santonio Holmes, WR, Ohio State Omar Jacobs, QB, Bowling Green Laurence Maroney, RB, Minnesota Richard Marshall, CB, Fresno State Stanley McClover, DE, Auburn Haloti Ngata, DT, Oregon Rob Smith, OL, Tennessee Marcus Vick, QB, Virginia Tech Mario Williams, State Vince Young, QB, Texas Pet. 1.900 3.727 4.600 5.375 7.364 11 .083 GB 3 5 9 Milwaukee St.

Louis Blast Philadelphia Chicago California Baldomir forgoes WBA, IBF titles Carlos Baldomir, the welterweight boxer who upset champion Zab Judah Saturday night, won only the World Boxing Council version of the title because he never paid the sanctioning fees to the World Boxing Association and the International Boxing Federation. Baldomir won a unanimous 12-round decision over Judah, but said in the post-fight news conference he didn't want to pay the other fees. Aurilia, Reds agree on contract Second baseman Rich Aurilia and the Cincinnati Reds agreed to a $1.3 million, one-year contract, about three hours before the team would have lost the right to re-sign him until May. Also facing the deadline were pitcher Jeff Weaver and the Los Angeles Dodgers, infielder Alex Gonzalez and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and pitcher Pedro Astacio and the San Diego Padres. First baseman Eduardo Perez, the fifth remaining unsigned free agent, has been working on finalizing a contract with the Cleveland Indians.

1 NCAA considers exempt rule change The NCAA would scrap a rule prohibiting men's and women's basketball teams from playing in more than two exempt tournaments in a four-year period under a compromise reached by the Division I Management Council. The proposal, one of about 140 heard during the NCAA convention, will be sent to member schools and conferences for comment before it is considered again in April. Under the plan, the two-in-four rule would be eliminated and schools would be allowed to participate in an event each year, but in the same event only once in four years. YESTERDAY'S RESULT Chicago 6, St. Louis 4 FRIDAY'S GAME St.

Louis at Milwaukee, 8:05 p.m. SUNDAY'S GAME Milwaukee at Chicago, 5 p.m. FRIDAY'S RESULT Blast 8, Milwaukee 5 SATURDAY'S RESULTS Milwaukee 7, Blast 6, OT St. Louis 6, Philadelphia 5, OT California 5, Chicago 4, OT France's Serra wins Adelaide tennis France's Florent Serra won the Adelaide International in Adelaide, Australia, for his second career Association of Tennis Professionals Tour title, beating Belgium's Xavier Malisse, 6-3, 6-4. Serra, who improved 159 places in the rankings last season to finish at No.

49, won his only previous title in Bucharest last season. In the doubles final, Israel's Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram beat Australia's Paul Hanley and Zimbabwe's Kevin Ullyett, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (10). SKIING Austria's Marlies Schild won her third straight World Cup slalom in Maribor, Slovenia, with Kristina Koznick fourth and Lindsey Kildow ninth in a good day for U.S. skiers. Schild won a crash-filled race in 1 minute, 48.34 seconds for her seventh career victory and a share of the slalom standings lead with Janica Kostelic of Croatia.

Kostelic, racing with a swollen hand, was 0.58 seconds behind in second. Giorgio Rocca of Italy remained unbeaten in the men's slalom this season, capturing a World Cup race in Adelboden, Switzerland, in which Ted Ligety of the United States finished second. SCORING Name Team GP llya Kovakhuk Atlanta 40 32 Simon Gagne Philadelphia 35 29 JaromirJagr NY Rangers 42 27 Dany Heatley Ottawa 40 26 Eric Staal Carolina 41 26 Daniel Alfredsson Ottawa 36 25 Alex Ovechkin Washington 39 25 Jonathan Cheechoo San Jose 39 23 Brian Gionta New Jersey 42 23 Markus Naslund Vancouver 42 22 MarekSvatos Colorado 42 22 Marian Hossa Atlanta 44 22 Sidney Crosby Pittsburgh 41 21 Petr Pracha NY Rangers 36 20 Jere Lehtinen Dallas 39 20 Brendan Shanahan Detroit 41 20 Pavol Demitra Los Angeles 43 20 Ryan Smyth Edmonton 36 19 Mike Knuble Philadelphia 41 19 ASSISTS Name Team GP A Joe Thornton BOS-SJ 38 44 Peter Forsberg Philadelphia 35 42 Marc Savard Atlanta 44 42 JaromirJagr NY Rangers 42 38 Jason Spezza Ottawa 31 35 Bryan McCabe Toronto 42 34 Martin Straka NY Rangers 42 34 Ladislav Nagy Phoenix 39 31 Shawn Horcoff Edmonton 40 31 llya Kovalchnk Atlanta 40 31 Toronto. MERCEDES CHAMPIONSHIPS At Maui, Hawaii Final round, par 73 x-won on first hole of playoff x-Appleby, $1,080,000 71-72-70-71-284 Singh, $630,000 70-74-74-66-284 Fnryk, $420,000 72-72-72-72-288 Taylor, $287,500 74-73-72-71-290 Campbell, $287,500 72-72-71-75-290 Silver Cup triumphs at Santa Anita Silver Cup rallied for a half-length victory over Ticker Tape in the $150,000 San Gorgonio Handicap for fillies and mares at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. Silver Cup covered 1 miles in minute, 47 25 seconds.

AQUEDUCT Wild Jam rallied to beat Spooky Mulder by 1 lengths in the $63,850 Brutally Frank Stakes for horses 4 and older in New York. Wild Jam covered six furlongs in 1:09.86. Skeleton coach's plea goes before judge U.S. skeleton coach Tim Nardiel-lo's plea for immediate reinstatement will go before a New York judge, less than a week before his team competes at a key World Cup race in Germany. The U.S.

Bobsled and Skeleton Federation suspended Nardiel-lo on Dec. 31, shortly after two claims of sexual harassment. Semipro team ties Manchester United Burton Albion, a semipro team that includes a trainer and a sports shop assistant, played mighty Manchester United to a 0-0 tie in the FA Cup. Burton is ranked 105 places below Man United in English soccer's pyramid of leagues. Glover, $217,000 74-73-70-74-291 71- 74-73-75-293 72- 78-72-72-294 74-72-76-73-295 74-74-73-75-296 Garcia, $195,000 Leonard, $185,000 Bryant, $175,000 Lonard, $165,000.