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2B COLLEGE FOOTBALL Thursday, September 24, 2009 Montgomery Advertiser Troy fullback Nolin recovers fast after latest surgery NOTEBOOK ending his college career. "I've spent the last five years giving everything I have to this school," he said. "I have too much fight left in me to roll over. "I only have a few more months to play and I'm going to try to enjoy every moment of it." Alignment problems: Offensive coordinator Neal Brown said he disagreed with four penalties against the Trojans last weekend for faulty alignment. Troy drew four flags for having just six men on the line of scrimmage because left tackle James Brown, in the officials' view, wasn't properly aligned.

Troy tied a school record with 15 penalties, 12 of which were against the offense. (One of Brown's didn't count because of first of two straight for the Hawks. Huntingdon (2-1) is off next week before hosting Millsaps on Oct. 10. "I can't wait," defensive end Zach Brothers said.

"It's always good to play in front of our fans, and sleep in our own beds the night before." The Hawks didn't sleep in their own beds the night of their loss at Oshkosh. Unable to line up a flight home, Huntingdon stayed in Milwaukee on Saturday night and flew home Sunday. The bus left for the airport before dawn Sunday. Up at 4, fly to Atlanta, bus to Montgomery and then do our normal Sunday routine," Turk said. "We got our film graded and started getting ready for next week.

It turned into a 16-hour day pretty A. Stacy Long One day, he hinted, he may come in full suit and tie. "Something just totally random," he said. ASU starts pregame march: Arkansas State is unveiling what it hopes becomes a pregame tradition Saturday. The Red Wolves are having the inaugural "Red Wolf Walk" starting at 1:15 p.m., just more than two hours before kickoff.

The team will walk around the outside of ASU Stadium. A. Stacy Long HUNTINGDON Hawks hope to forget turnover-laden loss Huntingdon is still fretting over the five turnovers that led to last weekend's 31-13 loss at Wisconsin-Oshkosh. TROY Troy fullback Nate Nolin, after his latest surgery, didn't wait long to return to the Trojans. Nolin is back from surgery on his left knee performed this season.

The senior's career has featured shoulderlabrum surgery, right knee surgery, a broken back and a lacerated kidney. There have also been "several concussions. Some documented, some not," he says. Surgery on his right knee will come after the season. "I still feel good," Nolin said.

"Hopefully, I'll get back in the rotation this week." Nolin didn't see action against UAB, but he did at Florida. He was on the field-goal team and the kickoff return team and saw three offensive plays of action. But he never considered offsetting penalties.) "Four of them were knick-knack stuff," Neal Brown said. "You're not going to see that called in any other conference in the country. "One of the four times, he was probably not on the line, but their defensive end lined up offsides the whole game." Brown down in orange: Quarterback Levi Brown's weekly Monday shirt choice, always noteworthy, went back to his interest in Africa and stopping genocide in Darfur.

It was white on top and orange on the bottom, with an outline of Africa and a peace sign over it. Brown has regularly worn musically based shirts, though he wore a Darfur shirt two weeks ago. "I figured I'd alternate weeks between Africa and music stuff," Brown said. There were two that came inside the Oshkosh 10-yard line, one that the Titans returned for a touchdown and the oddity of another. "The game was so disappointing," receiver Cody Pear-cy said.

"We played a decent game, I thought, but our turnovers turned into touchdowns real quick. We could play with that team." On one turnover, quarterback Justin Ridgeway couldn't handle an off-kilter snap. When it hit the ground, Ridgeway inadvertently kicked it. It went straight to an Oshkosh player. "There's no cure for that kind of stuff," coach Mike Turk said.

"You just have to go back to work." Consecutive home games: Huntingdon's home game Saturday against Louisiana College is the SCOREBOARD Kansas City 0 2 0 000 34 51 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East Today's sports Pet PF PA Giants 2 0 0 1.000 56 48 Dallas 1 1 0 .500 65 54 Philadelphia 1 1 0 .500 60 58 Washington 1 1 0 .500 26 30 South 12. Unfiekj 13. Monmouth 14. Ohio Northern 15. Otterbein 16 North Central 17.

St. Thomas 18. Trinity 19. Point 20. Trine 21 Wis -La Crosse 22.

Ithaca 23. Alfred 24. Thomas More 25. Willamette 2- 0 3- 0 1- 1 2- 0 1- 1 2- 0 3- 0 1- 1 2- 0 2-0 2- 1 3- 0 2-0 2-1 Pet PF PA BASKETBALL WNBA playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-3) EASTERN CONFERENCE Wednesday: Detroit 72, Indiana 56, Detroit leads series 2-1 Friday: Detrort at Indiana. 6 p.m.

x-Saturday: Detrort at Indiana, 6 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE Wednesday; Phoenix at Los Angeles, Friday: Los Angeles at Phoenix, 9 p.m. x-Saturday: Los Angeles at Phoenix, 9 pm. x-rf necessary Atlanta 2 0 0 1.000 47 27 New Orleans 2 0 0 1.000 93 49 Carolina 0 2 0 .000 30 66 Tampa Bay 0 2 0 .000 41 67 North Pet PF PA JUCO poll Sports briefing COLLEGE FOOTBALL No. 4 Rebels enter spotlight The fourth-ranked Mississippi Rebels sure sounds ready for their college football close up.

The Rebels are highly ranked but untested after easy opening victories against Memphis and Southeastern Louisiana. Ole Miss (2-0) opens its Southeastern Conference schedule tonight at South Carolina (2-1, 1-0) in front of a national television audience. "It's going to be a big showcase for us," defensive end Kentrell Lockett said. "We can show the work and show people that we're a top-five caliber team. So it's going to be a big opportunity for us." And maybe a chance for Mississippi quarterback Jevan Snead to show Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier he should have stuck to his original preseason all-SEC team ballot, the one with Snead instead of Florida's Tim Tebow.

Remember that summertime whodunit? It turned out Spurrier had a staffer fill out his all-SEC ballot and didn't realize Snead was placed ahead of Tebow. He later changed his vote to make Tebow a unanimous selection. Snead and the Rebels have drawn plenty of attention coming into this season. They haven't been Through Sept. 20 Record Pts Pvs 1 Blinn 3-0 139 1 2.

Navarro 3-0 132 3 3. Pearl River CC 4-0 125 4 4. Hutchinson CC 4-0 110 6 5. Butler CC 3-1 107 5 6 Fort Scott CC 3-0 101 8 7. Trinity Valley CC 3-0 100 7 8 Eastern Anzona 3-0 90 9 9 Miss Gulf Coast CC 3-1 74 13 10 Dean 3-0 74 9 11.

Anzona Western 3-0 63 12 12. Snow 3-1 62 11 13. Eas1Miss.CC 3-1 57 2 14. Ellsworth CC 2-1 51 13 15. Grand Rapids CC 4-0 44 16 16.

Rochester CTC 4-0 43 15 17. Tyler JC 3-0 34 18. NWtMiss.CC 3-1 14 19 19. Georgia Military 2-2 10 20. Cental Lates-Brairierd 4-0 9 AUTO RACING NASCAR Sprint Cup leaders Through Sept.

20 points Mark Martin, 5,230. 2, Jlmmie Johnson. 5,195. 3, Denny Hamlin, 5,195. 4, Juan Pablo Montqya, 5,175.

5. Kurt Busch. 5165. 6, Tony Stewart, 5,156 7, Ryan Newman, 5,151. 8, Brian Vickers, 5,140.

9, Greg Biflle, 5,138. 10, Jeff Gordon, 5,128, II, Carl Edwards, 5,117. 12, Kasey Kahne, 5,069. 13, Kyle Busch, 3,350. 14, Matt Kenseth, 3,259.

15, Clint Bowyer, Minnesota 2 0 0 1.000 61 33 Green Bay 1 1 0 500 45 46 Chicago 1 1 0 .500 32 35 Detroit 0 2 0 .000 40 72 West Pet PF PA San Francisco 2 0 0 1 000 43 26 Seattle 1 1 0 500 38 23 Arizona 1 1 0 .500 47 37 St Louis 0 2 0 000 7 37 Sunday Washington at Detroit, noon Tennessee at Y. Jets, noon Green Bay at St. Louis, noon Cleveland at Baltimore, noon San Francisco at Minnesota, noon Jacksonville at Houston, noon Atlanta at New England, noon N.Y. Giants at Tampa Bay, noon Kansas City at Philadelphia, noon Chicago at Seattle, 3:05 p.m. New Orleans at Buffalo, 3:05 p.m.

Miami at San Diego, 3:15 p.m. Denver at Oakland, 3:15 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 3:15 p.m. Indianapolis at Arizona, 7:20 p.m. Monday Carolina at Dallas.

7:30 p.m. Prep schedule TODAY AISA Marengo Aca. at East Memorial FRIDAY AHSAA non-region Alabama Chr at Luveme Asnford at Marbury Bullock Co at Alma Bryant Calhoun at Neal Cathoi at St. Jude Central-Hayneville at Fkynaton Clarke Co at Miller Don Bosoo Prep (N at Prattville Highland Home al Brantley Holtville at Beauregard Blacksher at McKenzie Jeff Davis at Auburn Robert E. Lee al W.

Carver Russell Co. at BTW-Tuskegee St James at Montgomery Aca. Stanhope Elmore at Cemral-Phenlx City Straugnn at Opp Tallassee at Chilton Co. Trinity at Elmore Co. Wetumpka at Northview Class 1A Fruitdale at Butler Co.

Magnet Linden at Billmgstey Maplesville at Autauqavllle AISA Autauga Aca. at Lowndes Aca. Coosa Valley at SMCA Edgewood at Meadowview Escambia Aca. at Wilcox Aca. Evangel Chr.

at Lakeside Fort Dale Aca at Macon-East LOCAL EVENTS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Auburn at Jeff Davis HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL 4:30 p.m.: Edgewood at Macon-East, Holtville at Elmore Hooper at Lee-Scott, Meadowview at Evangel Prattville at St. James; 5:30: Brewbaker Tech at Alabama Montgomery Aca. at Trinity, Prattville vs. Benjamin Russell (St. James); 6:30: Benjamin Russell at St.

James ON THE AIR BOXING Junior welterweights, Luis Ramos (11-0-0) vs Christian Favela (17-21-6), at Los Angeles, VERSUS, 9 p.m. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Mississippi at South Carolina, ESPN, 6:30 p.m. GOLF European PGA Tour, The Vivendi Trophy, first round, at Paris, The Golf Channel, 7 a.m. PGA Tour, The Tour Championship, first round, at Atlanta, The Golf Channel, noon LPGA, CVSpharmacy Challenge, first round, at Danville, The Golf Channel, 5:30 p.m. TVRADIO TALK SHOWS The Bud and Amos Show, with Mike Amos and Bud Casey, WRJM67, 6 a.m.

The Wake-Up Call, with Michael Butler, Shane Yankey and Miles Hathcock, WTLS-AM 1300, WTLS-FM 106.5, 6:30 a.m. SportsLine, with John Longshore and Barry McKnight, WMSP-AM 740, 7 a.m. The Sports Ticker, with Keith Cantrell and Will Barrett, WIQR-AM 1410, 7 a.m. The Dan Patrick Show, WIQR-AM 1410, 9 a.m. The Herd, with Colin Cowherd, WMSP-AM 740, 10 a.m.

The Jim Rome Show, WIQR-AM 1410, 11 a.m. The Roundtable, with Doug Amos and Josh Moon, WMSP-AM 740, noon Faulkner This Week, WBMM (Montgomery's CW), noon The Paul Finebaum Radio Network, WMSP-AM 740, WTLS-AM 1300, WTLS-FM 106.5, 2 p.m. Myers and Hartman, with Chris Myers and Steve Hart-man, WIQR-AM 1410, 2 p.m. The Tim Brando Show, WIQR-AM 1410, 3 p.m. SportsCall, WQSI-FM 93.9, 4 p.m.

Petros and Money, WTLS-AM 1300, WTLS-FM 106.5, 6 p.m. The Sports Kennel, with Cedric "Pastor Ced" Barnett and "Rude Dog" Rick Hall, WAPZ-AM 1250, WAPZ-FM 95.7, 6 p.m. Lions Roar, with Prattville High coach Jamey Dubose and host Will Barrett, WMRK-FM 107.9, 6 p.m. Hey Coach (Alabama call-in show), with host Tom Roberts, WXFX-FM 95.1, 6:30 p.m. (Toll-free call-in number is 877-202-2262) Tiger Talk, with host Rod Bramblett and Auburn coach Gene Chizik, WMSP-AM 740, WLWI-FM 92.3, 7 p.m.

(Toll-free call-in number is 888-282-2557) The Nick Saban Show, with host Tom Roberts, WXFX-FM 95.1, 7 p.m. (Toll-free call-in number is 877-202-2262) ESPN Game Night, WMSP-AM 740, 8 p.m. The Tony Bruno Show, WTLS-AM 1300, WTLS-FM 106.5, 9 p.m. NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule, winners Through Sept. 20 Feb.

7 x-Budweiser Shootout (Kevin Harvick) Feb. 12 x-Gatorade Duel 2 (Kyle Busch) Feb, 12 x-Gatorade Duel 1 (Jeff Gordon) Feb. 15 Daytona 500 (Matt Kenseth) Feb 22 Auto Club 500 (Matt Kenseth) March 1 Shelby 427 (Kyle Busch) March 8 Kobaft Toots 500 (Kurt Busch) March 22 Food City 500 (Kyle Busch) March 29 Goody Fast Pain Relief 500 (Jimmie Johnson) Apnl 5 Samsung 500 (Jeff Gordon) April 16 Subway Fresh Fit 500 (Mark Martin) April 26 Aaron's 499 (Brad Kesetow- ski) May 2 Crown Royal Presents the Russ Friedman 400 (Kyle Busch) May 9 Southern 500 (Mark Martin) May 16 x-Sprint Showdown (Sam Hornish Jr.) May 16 x-NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race (Tony Stewart) May 25 Coca-Cola 600 (David Reuti-mannj May 31 Autism Speaks 400 (Jimmle Johnson) June 7 Pocono 500 (Tony Stewart) June 14 LifeLock 400 (Mark Martin) June 21 ToyotaSave Mart 350 (Kasey Kahne) June 28 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 (Joey Loqano) July Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola (Tony Stewart) July 1 1 UfeLock.com 400 (Mark Martin) July 26 Allstate 400 at The Brickyard (Jimmie Johnson) Aug. 3 Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 (Denny Hamlin) Aug 10 Heiuva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen (Tony Stewart) Aug 16 Carfax 400 (Brian Vickers) Aug. 22 Sharpie 500 (Kyle Busch) Sep.

6 Pep Boys Auto 500 (Kasey Kahne) Sep. 12 Chevy Rock 4amp; RoW 400 (Denny Hamlin) Sep 20 Sytvania 300 (Mark Martin) Jackson Aca at Crenshaw Chr. Oct. 4 Price Chopper 400, Kansas 500 Fnntana CaW City. Kan.

Oct. 1 1 Pepsi Oct. 17 NASC BASEBALL Major league leaders Through Sept. 22 NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING HaRamirez, Florida, Pujols. St.

Louis. 330; Sandoval, San Francisco, Helton, Colorado, Braun, Milwaukee, Coghlan, Florida, LCasiillo, New York. .313. RUNS-Pupls, St. Louis, 120; Utley, Philadelphia, 106: Braun, Milwaukee.

104; Zimmerman. Washington, 102; HaRamirez, Florida, 96; Victorino, Philadelphia, 96; Fielder, Milwaukee, 95; Howard, Philadelphia, 95. RBI-Fielder, Milwaukee, 129; Pujols, St. Louis, 129; Howard, Philadelphia, 126; DLee, Chicago, 109; Braun, Milwaukee, 103; ADunn, Washington, 103: Ethier, Los Angeles, 102; HaRamirez, Florida, 102. HITS-HaRamirez, Florida, 193; Braun, Milwaukee, 183; Teiada.

Houston, 179; FLopez, Milwaukee, 176; Pujols, St. Louis, 175; Sandoval, San Francisco, 174; Kemp, Los Angeles, 173, DOUBLES-Sandoval, San Francisco, 43; Teiada, Houston, 43; Pujols, St. Louis, 42; Ethier, Los Angeles, 41; HaRamirez, Florida, 41; Hawpe, Colorado, 39; Rollins, Philadelphia, 39. TRIPLES Bourn, Houston, 11; SDrew, Arizona, 11; VrCtorino, Philadelphia, 11; Pagan, New York, 10; Fowler. Colorado, Counsell.

Milwaukee. GParra, Anzona, Tulowrtzki, Colorado, 8. HOME RUNS -Pujols, St. Louis, 47; Reynolds, Arizona. 43; Fielder, Milwaukee, 4t; Howard.

Philadelphia, 41; AdGonzalez, San Diego, 39; ADunn, Washington, 38; DLee. Chicago, 35. STOLEN BASES-Boum Houston, 58; Morgan, Washington, 42; Kemp, Los Angeles. 34; Rollins, Philadelphia, 30; Fowler, Colorado. 27; Pierre, Los Angeles.

27: HaRamirez, Florida, 26; DWrtght, New York, 26. PITCHING -Wainwright, St. Louis. 18-8; CCarpenter, St Louis, 16-4; JoJohnson, Flonda. 15-5, De La Rosa, Colorado, 15-9; DLowe, Atlanta, 15-9; Marquis, Colorado, 15-11; Pineiro, St.

Louts. 15-n. STRIKEOUTS -Lincecum, San Francisco, 247; JVazquez, Atlanta, 222: Haren, Arizona, 208, Gallardo, Milwaukee, 204; Wainwrkjht, St. Louis, 193; JoJohnson, Florida, 181; WRodnguez, Houston, 181; De La Rosa, Colorado, 181; Jimenez, Colorado. 181.

SAVES-HBell, San Diego, 39; Cordero, Cincinnati, 38; Franklin, St Louis, 37; Brox-ton, Los Angeles, 35; BrWilson, San Francisco, 35; Hoffman, Milwaukee, 34; Street, Colorado, 33; FrRodriguez, New York, 33. AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING -Mauer, Minnesota, ISu-zuki, Seattle, MiCabrera, Detroit, Jeter, New York, MYoung, Texas, Bartlett, Tampa Bay, Cano, New York, .320. RUNS-Figgins, Los Angeles, 108; Damon. New York, 105; Pedrota, Boston, 105; Jeter, New York, 104; BRoberts, Baltimore, 103; Scutaro, Toronto. 100; Bay, Boston, 98.

RBI-Teixeira, New York, 118; Bav, Boston. 113; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 108; Und, Toronto, 106, AHilt Toronto, 100: Morneau, Minnesota, 100; CPena. Tampa Bay, 100 HITS-ISuzuki, Seattle, 211; Jeter, New York, 199; Cano. New York, 193; MiCabrera. Detroit, 185; AHill, Toronto, 182; Mauer, Minnesota.

176; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 177; Markakis, Baltimore, 177. DOUBLES BRoberts, Baltimore. 55: BButler, Kansas City, 49; Lind, Toronto. 46; Cano. New York, 45; Pedroia, Boston, 45; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 44; MByrd, Texas, 42; Markakis, Baltimore, 42; Teixeira, New York.

42. TRIPLES-DeJesus, Kansas City, El-Isbury Boston, Span, Minnesota, An-drus. Texas, EAybar, Los Angeles, Bloomquist, Kansas City, Crawford, Tampa Bay, 8. HOME RUNS-CPena, Tampa Bay, 39; Teixeira, New York. 37; Bay, Boston, 36; AHill, Toronto, 33; NCruz, Texas, 32; Bra-nyan Seattle, 31; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 31 Los Angeles, 31 STOLEN BASES -Elisbury, Boston, 64; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 59; Figgins, Los Angeles, 42; RDavis.

Oakland, 40; BUpton, Tampa Bay, 38, BAbreu. Los Ange.es, 29; Andrus, Texas 29; Kinsler, Texas, 29; Pod-sednik, Chicago, 29; BRoberts, Baltimore, 29. PITCHING -Sabathia, New York, 18-7; Feldman. Texas. 17-5: FHernandez.

Seat Bankina 500. Con ranked this high since Manning father Archie and not son Eli was at quarterback in 1970. They're riding an eight-game winning streak, the school's longest in 37 years. A 3-0 start would be its best opening since 1989. Spurrier hopes South Carolina can call on its Thursday night success the past few years.

The Gamecocks have won five of seven such spotlight games with their head ball coach, including a 38-23 victory in 2007 over an unbeaten and rising Kentucky program. The College Football Hall of Fame, which never managed to attract the number of visitors its organizers hoped for after moving it to South Bend, in 1995, is being moved to Atlanta to bring it more exposure, organizers told the city. The National Football Foundation notified the city of South Bend in a letter Tuesday that it is terminating its agreement with the city when its current lease ends on Dec. 31, 2010. South Bend Mayor Stephen Luecke said Wednesday that he met with football foundation officials on Tuesday and they told him that the move would be announced at a news conference today in Atlanta.

College Football Hall of Fame officials did not return telephone messages from The Associated Press, but issued a statement thanking the city of South Bend for its support. The hall moved to South Bend from Kings Mills, Ohio, in 1995 to take advantage of its proximity to Notre Dame. Supporters predicted it would attract more than 150,000 visitors a year, but it drew about 115,000 people the first year and about 60,000 annually after that. NFL Barber says he feels fine Marion Barber walked out to the practice field in full gear Wednesday and flashed a thumbs-up. His tight left thigh was feeling fine or, at least, good enough to give it a test run.

Barber did some light jogging and caught a few balls during the portion of practice open to reporters. The Cowboys refused to say what else the starting running back did or didn't do because they don't have to put out an injury report until today, because their next game is Monday night. Barber strained his leg during a 35-yard run late in the fourth quarter of Dallas' loss to the New York Giants on Sunday night. It might've been a 42-yard touchdown run had he not come up lame. Barber said it "felt like a bad cramp" and that it's happened to him before.

He's hopeful of playing against Carolina on Monday night. Cowboys left tackle Flozell Adams has been fined $12,500 for kicking two New York Giants on Sunday, making it two straight games he's been fined. Adams was punished not only for the second-quarter play that left Justin Tuck with a shoulder injury, but also for doing it to former Troy player Osi Umenyiora in the fourth quarter. Adams was flagged for kicking Tuck, but not for the swipe at Umenyiora. After the game, Tuck called it a "bush league play," and Adams shot back Monday, saying he didn't know Tuck was hurt, adding, "From a supposed kick? Tell him to stay up.

It ain't my fault." Adams also was fined $5,000 for an unnecessary roughness penalty against Tampa Bay in the opener, which Adams said he wants to appeal. PGA Tour Finchem says Tour may lose events Even as the economy shows signs of recovering, PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said Wednesday that shrinking marketing budgets of major companies could lead to the loss of title sponsors, and possibly some tournaments. The PGA Tour schedule for 2010 is not expected to be finalized until its board meeting the cord, N.C. uci. a i ums rasi nener ouu, Martinsville, Va, Nov 1 AMP Energy 500, Talladega Nov.

8 Dickies SOT. Fort Worth, Texas Nov. 15 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500. Avondale, Ariz, Nov, 22 Ford 400, Homestead, Fla. x-non-points race Lee-Scott at Hooper Monroe Aca.

at Pickens Aca. Morgan Aca at Tuscaloosa Aca. Prattville Chr. at Glenwood SATURDAY AHSAA nexvreqion Huffman at Sidney Lanier TSN FCS poll PHILADELPHIA The top 25 teams in The Sports Network Football Championship Subdivision poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 20, points and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1.

Richmond (132) 3-0 3,688 1 2. Villanova (9) 3-0 3,481 2 3. Northern Iowa (6) 2-1 3,385 3 4. Montana 3-0 3,162 4 5. William Mary (2) 3-0 3,064 5 6.

New Hampshire (1) 2-0 2,787 6 7 James Madison 1-1 2 767 7 8 McNeese State 3-0 2.664 8 9 Southern Illinois 1-1 2.402 9 10 Appalachian State 0-2 2.107 10 11. Weber State 1-2 1,997 13 12. Central Arkansas 1-1 1.894 16 13 Elon 2-1 1,857 11 14. SC State 2-0 1.629 15 15. Massachusetts 2-1 1.551 17 W.CalPoly 1-1 1,512 12 17.

South Dakota Slate 2-0 1 436 18 ETC. Personnel changes BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX-ftecalled LHP J.T. the Brick, WTLS-AM 1300, WTLS-FM 106.5, 1 a.m. Hunter Jones from Pawtucket (ILL KANSAS CITY ROYALS -Purchased the contract of RHP Anthony Lerew from Northwest Arkansas (TL). Activated RHP Juan Cruz from the 15-day DL Placed LHP Bruce Chen on the 60-day DL.

nanonai League ATLANTA BRAVES-Sianed manaaer FOOTBALL Bobby Cox to a one-year contract extension Through next season and announced his retirement, effective at the end of the 2010 season, BA5KETBALL National Basketball Association CHARl OTTE BOBCATS-Sionftd Raymond Felton to a one-year contract. rIJ I DHLL National Football League NFL Fined Tennessee DT Jason Jones 15 000 for unnecessarily ooina into a scrum 18 Wotford 1-2 1.226 14 19 Washington 2-1 841 21 20. Eastern Kentucky 1-1 770 22 21. Holy Cross 3-0 726 23 22 Jacksonville State 1-2 656 24 23 Texas State 1-1 646 19 24 Easlern Illinois 3-0 395 NR 25 Liberty 2-1 297 NR Others receiving votes: Florida AaM 295, Delaware 218. Maine 215.

Colgate 155. Grambling State 114, Youngstown State 89. Samford 73, Northern Arizona 72, Harvard 65, Penn 57, Montana State 56, Stephen F. Austin 52, Furman 50, Prairie View 46. Gardner-Webb 34.

South Dakota 23. Albany 20, The Citadel 20, Tennessee State 18, Southern 14, North Dakota Stale 13, Tennessee-Martin 13, Butler 12, Georgia Southern 12, Hampton 12, North Dakota 8. Alabama State 6, Missouri State 6, Tennessee Tech 6, North Carolina 5, Old Dominion 5, Hofstra 4, Western Illinois 4, Cornell 3, Portland State 3, Drake 2, Jackson State 2, Yale 2, Chattanooga 1, Latayette 1, Sam Houston State 1, San Diego Southeastern Louisiana 1 UC Davis 1. dunng Sunday game against Houston. nrttju udtias ui nuzwii aijuu iur kicking two N.Y.

Giants players during Sun- IV a UdMlW. BUFFAIO BIHR-Sinned OL Andre Ramsey to the practice squad. CAROLINA PANTHERS Waived Nate Salley from Injured reserve. Released DT Georae Hvoolite from the practice AP Top 25 schedule Today No. 4 Mississippi at South Carolina, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday No. 1 Florida at Kentucky, 5 p.m. No. 2 Texas vs. UTEP, 2:30 p.m.

No. 3 Alabama vs. Arkansas, 2:30 p.m. No. 5 Penn State vs.

Iowa. 7 m. No. 6 California at Oregon, 2:30 p.m. No.

7 LSU at Mississippi Slate. 11:20 a.m. No. 6 Boise State at Bowling Green, 6 p.m. No.

9 Miami at No. 1 1 Virginia Tech, 2:30 p.m. No. 12 Southern Cat vs. Washington State.

9:15 p.m. No. 13 Ohio State vs Illinois. 2:30 p.m. No.

14 Cincinnati vs. Fresno State, 11 a.m. No. 15 TCU at Clemson, 2:30 p.m. No.

16 Oklahoma State vs. Grambling State, 6 m. squad. CHICAGO BEARS-Signed Johan Asiata to the practice squad. Terminated the contract of CB Woodny Turenne from Vanderbirt 7 RICE AUBURN 33 Ball St UNLV 3p WYOMING ALABAMA 17, Arkansas Florida 21 KENTUCKY GEORGIA 11i Arizona St.

California 5', OREGON FLORIDA ST. 14 South Flonda GEORGIA TECH 2', North Carolina ILLINOIS 17 Idaho BYU 17 Colorado St. N.C STATE 1 Prtlsburgh STANFORD IV, Washington KENT 7 Miami (Ohio) Miami (Fla.) 2', VIRGINIA TECH Notre Dame 7 PURDUE TEXAS 35': UTEP PENN ST. Iowa HOUSTON 1 Texas Tech NEW MEXICO 10 New Mexico St. USC 45 Washington SI OREGON ST.

2', Arizona FLA. ATLANTIC 371 la. Monroe NEBRASKA 28 La Lalavette NAVY 28 Western Kentucky ARKANSAS ST. 2 Troy Middle Tenn. St.

6', NORTH TEXAS Toledo 2 FLA. INT'L NFL Thursday JETS 1 7, Tennessee HOUSTON 3VJ Jacksonville PHILADELPHIA NL Kansas City BALTIMORE 13 Cleveland Giants BY, TAMPA BAY Washington 6 DETROIT Green Bav 6'i ST LOUIS MINNESOTA 6 San Francisco NEW ENGLAND 4 Atlanta Chicago 1 SEATTLE New Orleans 6 BUFFALO SAN DIEGO 6 Miami Pittsburgh 4 CINCINNATI Denver 2 OAKLAND ARIZONA 2V, Indianapolis Monday DALLAS 8 A Carolina Boractice squad. CINCINNATI BENGALS Sianed CB Rico Murray to the practice squad! DETROIT LIONS-Signed DT Matthias Askew to the practice squad Released QB Brock Berlin from the practice squad. tle, 16-5; Verlander, Detroit. 16-9: Beckett.

UHtbN bay HAOKtHb-signea Man liordano. Released Aaron Rouse, igned 0T Dane Randolph to the practice squad. INDIANAPOI IS miTR-Skmed LB Jor first week of November, and except for some juggling of dan Senn. Waived TE Tom Sanu. Ntw yuhi Jtia-biqnea L.ts Mar- dates on the West Coast the tirst two months of the year, it likely will look similar to this year.

The bigger con Boston, ib-o; Jerweaver, Los Angelas, 15-7, Greinke. Kansas City. 15-8. STRIKEOUTS-Verlander. Detrort.

245; Greinke Kansas City 229; Lester, Boston, 215; FHernandez, Seattle, 196; Halladay. Toronto, 193; Beckett. Boston, 187; Sabathia New York. 186. SAVES Fuentes, Los Angeles, 44; Nathan Minnesota, 43; MaRivera.

New York, 40; Papelbon, Boston, 37; Aardsma, Seattle, 35; Rodney, Detroit, 34; Jenks, Chicago, 29. fuice Cole from the practice squad. Waived Matthew Mulligan bbAi iLb btAMAWP.b waivea ti Brian De La Puente from the oractice squad Signed Jamar Adams to the practice squacf TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS Signed Corey Lynch from Cincinnati's practice squad and CB Marcus Hamilton. Placed Jermaine Phillips on injured reserve. Released Steve Cargde cern is some 10 title sponsor contracts that expire after 2010.

Even as the recession deepened earlier this year, the tour managed to get contract extensions with title sponsors for two World Golf Championships (Accen-ture and Bridgestone), New Orleans (Zurich) and Hartford (Travelers). Its biggest success might have been landing SBS as a title sponsor for the season-opening tournament on Maui through 2020. Still, Finchem said AFCA Division II Coaches poll Through Sept. 20 Record Pts Pvs 1 Grand Valley St (24) 4-0 624 1 2 Abilene Christian 4-0 593 2 3 North Alabama (1) 4-0 577 3 4 Bloomsburg 4-0 542 4 5 Central Washington 4-0 508 5 6 west Missouri St 3-1 484 6 7 Minn. St -Mankato 4-0 464 7 8 Minn-Duluth 3-1 443 8 9 Delta St.

2-1 423 9 10. Texas MMXingsvIe 4-0 413 10 11. Central Missoun 4-0 378 12 12. Albany St. 3-0 327 13 13.

Catawba 3-0 319 14 14. Tarleton St. 4-0 269 19 15. Ashland 3-1 258 18 16 Tuskegee 3-1 223 17 17, Midwestern St. 4-0 210 24 18Mssouri Western St 4-0 203 19 Saginaw Valley St.

3-1 175 23 20 Charleston 4-0 148 -21. Ouachita Baptist 3-0 116 22 Wayne St 3-1 75 20 23 Pittsburg St. 2-2 67 11 24 Edinboro 3-1 56 -25. Winona St. 3-1 47 AFCA Division III HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL Susoended Phoenix Francis it seemed unlikely the tour could make it to 2011 with Lessard for the remainder of preseason and three regular-season games as the result of a game misconducfpenalty in a preseason game against Anaheim on Sept.

18. Suspended Los Angeles Sean O'Donnell for the remainder of preseason and two regular-season games as the result of a rfialch penalty in a preseason game against the N.Y. Islanders on Tues- out losing some title sponsors. NFL standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East AUTO RACING Pet No. 17 Houston vs.

Texas Tech, 8:15 p.m. No. 18 Florida State vs. South Florida, 11 am. No.

19 BVU vs. Colorado State. 5 m. No. 20 Kansas vs.

Southern 11 a.m No. 21 Georgia vs. Arizona State. 6 m. No.

22 North Carolina at Georgia Tech, 11 am. No. 23 Michigan vs. Indiana, 11am. No.

24 Washington at Stanford. 8 p.m. No. 25 Nebraska vs. La -Lafayette, 6 p.m.

Las Vegas line College football Today Mississippi 3V4 S. CAROLINA Friday Missouri 7 NEVADA Saturday BOSTON COLLEGE VA Wake Forest OHIO ST 14 Illinois WESTERN Minnesota MICHIGAN 20 Indiana TEMPLE 2 Indiana WISCONSIN 3 MichKian St. CLEMSON 2A TCU Rutgers 1 MARYLAND Boise St 16 BOWLING GREEN TENNESSEE 23 Ohio EAST CAROLINA 10' Central Fla. CINCINNATI 16 Fresno St MICHIGAN 16 Akron LSU 1274 MISS ST. IOWA ST 9'.

Army MEMPHIS 3 Marshall TEXAS ASM 14 UAB KANSAS 14 Southern Miss AIR FORCE 16 Vi San Diego St. NASCAR to allow regional testing NHL PtAYFRS ASSOCIATION An. 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 NY Jets New England Buffalo Miami 0 1 000 0 .500 0 .500 0 .000 34 40 57 45 nounced the retirement of dial Kolzig. NASCAR will allow teams to test next season at NCAA Anniinrwt Rimnn Frntor will hA- tracks that host regional touring events. NASCAR HOCKEY NHL preseason scores, schedule Tuesday Toronto 3, Pittsburgh 2, SO Columbus 6, Boston 5, SO Philadelphia 5, Detroit 2 Los Angeles 4 N.Y.

Islanders 2 Florida 3. Dallas 1 Tampa Bay 2 Phoenix 1 Wednesday Buffalo 3, Toronto 2 New Jersey 4, Islanders 2 Washington 6 Chicago 2 Atlanta 5. Nashville 4 Flonda 4. Dallas 1 Phoenix vs. Tampa Bay at Loveland, late Calgary at Edmonton, late Los Angeles at Colorado, late San Jose at Vancouver, late Today Washington at Rangers 8 m.

New Jersey at Philadelphia. 6 p.m. Pittsburgh at Columbus 6 p.m. Boston at Montreal 6 30 p.m. St Louis at Minnesota, 7 pm.

Colorado at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Edmonton vs. Tampa Bay at Winnipeg, Manitoba. 7 30 pm, Anaheim at Vancouver, 9 p.m. South I Pet 2 0 0 1 000 1 1 0 .500 made the announcement on Wednesday.

It a change from the cost-cutting policy that went into effect this Indianapolis Houston Jacksonville Tennessee 000 .000 season, when all tracks that hosted any NASCAR-sanc- 0 2 0 0 2 0 North gin Division llplay in the fall of 2010-11 and will join the Great Northwest Athletic Conference. BIG TEN CONFERENCE Suspended Purdue Zach Reckman for Saturdays game for a late hit during last week game against Northern Illinois. AKRON-Susrjended QB Chris Jaoque-mam for the remainder of the season tor violating team policy. Placed assistant football coach Reno Ferri on administrative leave and suspended with pay pending an internal review of NCAA compliance requirements CINCINNATI Aooroved a two-vear con tioned events were off limits for testing. Next year, 29 45 41 47 PF PA 69 50 27 27 38 36 Pet NASCAR will only ban facilities that host national se 2 0 0 1 000 1 1 0 .500 Baltimore Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cleveland Through Sept.

20 Record Pts 1 Mount Union (39) 2-0 999 2 2-0 947 3 Mary Hardin-Baylor 2-0 905 4 Wheaton 2-0 852 5 Wesley 3-0 808 6 St John's 3-0 768 7 Washingotn A Jefferson 3-0 700 8 Cortland St. 2-0 693 9 Wabash 2-0 575 10 Case Western Reserve 3-0 560 11. Central 3-0 501 500 000 1 1 0 0 2 0 West ries events. Among the tracks that teams can use next season are Greenville-Pickens Speedway in South Carolina, South Boston Speedway in Virginia and Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. tract extension for men oasKetbali coach Pet PF PA 39 13 50 51 33 34 Mick uronin mrougn the fui3-i4 season.

WAKE FOREST-Suspended Junior Petrt-Jean for the remainder of the football Denver San Diego 2 0 0 1 000 1 1 0 500 1 1 0 500 Oakland Wire reports season tor violating undisclosed team rules. 1.