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The Sentinel at VAvw.cumberiink.com Sports College Football Recruiting, new coaches tough to mix 1 ii mm ii ing happened," Lueders said. "It's hard to build a relationship in such a short time." Quarterback Andrew Hendrix of Moeller High School in Cincinnati reconsidered his commitment to Notre Dame after Weis was fired, took a visit to Florida, but ultimately stuck with the Fighting Irish. "If coach Kelly had not been picked as coach and somebody else had been picked whose system I didn't fit well or if I couldn't get along with them, something like that, I might have gone to Florida," Hendrix said. While Weis landed several recruiting classes that were ranked in the top 10 nationally by th6 experts in recent years, Notre Dame's first post-Weis class is poised to receive a ranking of somewhere from 15-25. For Notre Dame fans worried about their new coach's ability to lure top talent to South Bend, Crab-tree preaches patience.

"We cannot judge Brian Kelly oh what he did in the last month and a half," Crabtree said. "Recruiting is a year-round process." Tuesday February 2, 2010 B5' Sports Briefs Giants add Kim, Ramirez on minor league deals SAN FRANCISCO The San Francisco Giants have agreed to terms on minor league contracts with righthander Byung-Hyun Kim and lefty Horacio Ramirez, and both received non-roster invites to spring training. The 31-year-old Kim hasn't pitched in the majors sincespending 2007 with Colorado, Arizona and Florida. He owns a career record of 54-60 with a 4.42 ERA in nine big league seasons. While with Arizona, Kim gave up the tying home runs in Games 4 and 5 of 2001 World Series against the New York Yankees and the winning drive in Game 4 to Derek Jeter.

The Diamondbacks won in seven games. Browns, Dolphins make unusual trade CLEVELAND The Cleveland Browns and Miami Dolphins have swapped salary cap experts. On Monday, the Browns hired Matt Thomas as their vice president of football administration. He replaces Dawn Aponte, who accepted the position of senior vice president of football operations with Miami. Thomas spent 12 seasons with the Dolphins, serving most recently as a vice president.

In Miami, he worked under president Bryan Wiedmeier, who recently joined the Browns as their executive vice president of business operations. Aponte spent one year with Cleveland and was the club's chief negotiator on contracts. She previously served on the NFL's management council and also worked for the New York Jets with Bill Parcells, her new boss in Miami. Auriemma to donate ties on eBay for cancer fund STORRS, Conn. Geno Auriemma plans to auction off the neck ties he wears during the rest of UConn's games this season.

The school says money raised by the auctions will benefit the Kay YowWBCA Cancer Fund. The North Carolina State University women's basketball coach died a year ago after a long fight withbreast cancer. The UConn coach's ties will go up for bid on eBay starting at the beginning of each game. Each auction will last one week after the conclusion of that game. The first tie to be auctioned will be worn by Auriemma on Tuesday when the top-ranked Huskies (21-0) take on No.

11 West Virginia (20 -2) in Hartford. The UConn women have won 60 consecutive Napolitano: Security plan in place for Super Bowl FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has toured the site of Sunday's Super Bowl and says the security plan is ready to thwart any threats. ,1 The NFL said Monday's tour of Sun Life Stadium was the first by a Cabinet secretary before a championship game.

Napolitano says she considered it important to check out security preparations firsthand. About 1,000 federal, state and local law enforcement personnel are involved in security for Sunday's game between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts. The FBI says there are no credible threats against the game. But al-Qaida has frequently expressed interest in attacking high-profile sporting events in U.S. soil.

Bears hireMartzas offensive coordinator CHICAGO Mike Martz, the headstrong coach who orchestrated the "Greatest Show on Turf" while molding Kurt Warner into a Pro Bowl quarterback with the St. Louis Rams, is the Chicago Bears' new offensive coordinator. Martz's hiring on Monday ended a nearly monthlong search to replace the fired Ron Turner. His job is to turn around a struggling offense and get the most out of Jay Cutler after the quarterback and team failed to meet high expectations this season. Cutler threw a league -leading 26 interceptions after a blockbuster trade with Denver, while the Bears went 7-9 and missed the playoffs for the third straight year since the 2006 team's Super Bowl run.

That led to a major coaching shake-up in which Turner and five other assistants were let go. The Bears are still looking for a defensive coordinator. Game on! CBS sells out last Super Bowl ads LOS ANGELES CBS says it has sold out of ads for the Super Bowl at average prices that are better than last year, with some 30-second spots topping $3 million apiece. CBS Corp. says the final spot sold Monday morning, six days before kickoff.

That's a few days ahead of schedule. Last year, NBC still had two 30-second spots remaining two days before the game. -Associated Press BY RALPH D.RUSSO AP COLLEGE FOOTBALL WRITER For Brian Kelly, Lane Kif-f in and Derek Dooley, the first priority at their new jobs was just keeping it together. Keeping together the recruiting class, that is. Coaching changes at Notre Dame, Southern California and Tennessee have added intrigue to the end of the recruiting season as three of the nation's marquee programs have scrambled to hold on to their blue chippers.

"This is maybe the most suspenseful recruiting season in the 12-plus years I have been doing it," said Jeremy Crabtree, national recruiting editor for Rivals, com. The end is near, however. National signing day is Wednesday. Kelly became coach of the Fighting Irish last December in what was expected to be the most dramatic hire in college football after the 2009 season. The timing of Notre Dame's switch from Charlie Weis to Kelly was fairly typ- Continued from Bl Square grooves no longer are allowed on the PGA Tour because of a new USGA policy effective this year that requires grooves in irons to be more a more shallow V-shape, which generate less spin.

However, the Ping-Eye 2 wedges made before April 1, 1990, are approved for competition because of a lawsuit that Ping settled with the PGA Tour and USGA some 20 years ago. It has not been proven whether the grooves of a 20-year-old golf club Mick-elson played them in college at Arizona State and found this wedge in his garage spin more than V-shaped Soggy Continued from Bl for a 30 percent chance of showers Tuesday, prompting the media day switch. And, there is at least a slight chance of rain every day the rest of the week, with a 20-percent chance Sunday. Instead of conducting interviews on the field at Sun Life Stadium, the NFL will hold them in an indoor concourse on the club level. All players and coaches from the Saints and Colts will still be available for interviews.

"This should not be a major problem," NFL spokesman Michael Signora said. "It just will look different." The Saints' first practice Monday was moved 30 miles north from the University of Miami's outdoor fields to the indoor bubble at Togo USC coach Lane Kiff in is in the recruiting world. ical, giving Kelly about eight weeks to put his stamp on a class that for the most part will be Weis' last mark on the Fighting Irish. Kelly's task was to quickly establish relationships with players who had spent months getting to know Notre Dame football through Weis and his staff. "That's probably the most difficult part," said Kelly, who was recruiting before he even had a staff in place.

Kelly and the Irish lost the highest-rated player who had given Weis a non-binding verbal commit grooves made with today's technology. John Daly and Dean Wilson were the first players to use the Ping wedges this year, at the Sony Open in Hawaii. Mickelson, who finished 19th at the Farmers Insurance Open, said he was not sure the Ping wedge was more effective than his new wedges from Callaway. Mickelson, however, has been angry with the USGA since the groove policy was announced. He claims he submitted wedges under the new rules that the USGA did not approve, yet he was allowed to use a Ping wedge with square grooves that are not conforming.

"I understand black and white," Mickelson said Fri- the Miami Dolphins' complex. The starting time was pushed back while equipment was moved from one site to the other. Rain also affected preparation of the playing field, Signora said. "I wouldn't say anything is delayed," he said. "I'd say work continues, and weather is one more factor built into the preparation." The weather made South Florida's daunting traffic even more sluggish.

The team hotels and practice sites are separated by drives of up to an hour sometimes more and while the Colts and Saints are whisked about with police escorts, getting around is more arduous for fans, volunteers, league officials and the media. "We're a regional effort, Associated Press one coach making waves ment. Defensive end Chris Martin of Aurora, is now expected to sign with California. Another highly touted defensive end, Blake Lueders from Zionsville, switched his commitment from Notre Dame to Stanford Lueders said the firing of Weis was a factor in his decision to change his commitment to Stanford, but not the sole reason. "It's tough when you're recruited by one staff and you build a relationship with them and then a completely new staff comes in and tries to act as if noth day.

"And I think that myself or any other player is allowed to play those clubs because they're approved -end of story." McCarron said to use the Ping wedges violated the spirit of the rule. On Monday, he directed some of his frustration at the USGA and the PGA Tour for knowing the potential for this controversy before it blew up on them last week at Torrey Pines. "Instead of addressing the matter, the tour chose to put the onus to comply on its players," McCarron said. "Unfortunately, a handful of players have chosen not to comply, and that is what has led to this current ordeal. In my opinion the tour and we need to spread it around," said Rodney Bar-reto, chairman of the South Florida Super Bowl host committee.

"It'll be judged afterward whether it really works out." Tourism officials said the wet weather didn't tarnish the Pro Bowl, which was moved from Hawaii as a one -year experiment and drew the largest crowd for the game since 1959. But the stadium was half empty by the third quarter. The Super Bowl is in Miami for the 10th time, the most of any city. While the rain may not dampen visitors' enthusiasm for South Florida, the NFL says the Dolphins' 22-year-old stadium needs upgrades, rais- ing concerns about the region's attractiveness as a site of future games. how to do is to award the organization of the Africa Cup to countries that give them the most money." Making this worse is that CAF, in its statement, recognized that Togo's dazed and confused players were in two minds about whether they should compete in the tournament following the attack by suspected separatists in the oil-producing Cabinda region of Angola, which hosted this cup.

Some players initially said that they no longer wanted to take the field. Who can blame them? Others later said that they wanted to play to honor the dead and wounded. Togo President Faure Gnassingbe apparently tipped the balance by call-ing Adebayor and urging the team to come back. "We have to mourn our dead. We go back home to do this," Adebayor said as he boarded the presidential plane sent by Togo's govern- must now put a rule in place to protect the field and ban these wedges." McCarron said the focus should shift from a small number of players using the Ping -Eye 2 wedges to the majority of players "who chose to do the right thing." "I am still appalled by the fact that any player would make the choice to put this controversial wedge in play, and I stand by my previous comments," he said.

The only apology he offered was to the Farmers Insurance Open for the distraction it caused. PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem is to meet with players Tuesday in Los Angeles to discuss the wedge dispute. The Dolphins have proposed adding a roof that would cover fans as part of stadium improvements that could cost $250 million or more. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell says the upgrades would help South Florida remain competitive in bidding for future Super Bowls. "They're saying, 'Your whiskers are getting a little Barreto said.

"I don't think we ought to fall asleep and sit on our laurels. We should take a good look and see if there is some way to partner with the Dolphins and figure out how to get something done." South Florida leaders are expected to seek public money for the project. But at the moment, Barreto said, they're focused on praying for some sunshine. ment. Could the players have refused? Should they have played even while their goalkeeper Kodjovi "Dod-ji" Obilale lay with bullet fragments in his stomach in a South African hospital? Should Adebayor simply have ignored the "deep despair" he said he felt after the Togo team's media officer, Stanislas Ocloo, died in his arms and focused instead pn the business so inconsequential in comparison to life and death of scoring goals? i Only a bully would punish Togo for not having done so.

Instead of doing a service to African soccer, barring the players from the Africa Cup for the next four years seems mean, cold and grossly unfair. John Leicester is an international sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jleicester ap.org. ffcvfrTatftaitTftM-s ffti im giifitf Art 'f flffei injuria frt Talk about picking the wrong moment to take a stand. Trying to prevent politicians from meddling in sports might be commendable in other situations.

Not this time. Not when people have been killed. Not when Abebayor notes that Togo assistant coach Abalo Amelete was being buried on the same day that CAF's executive committee made its decision. "As we speak, his loved ones are at the cemetery," Adebayor said. "Can you imagine their reaction when they find out?" No surprise then that the Manchester City forward reserves his bitterest words for CAF president Issa Hayatou.

From the moment the gunmen opened fire on Togo's bus to now, the organization that Hayatou leads has acted poorly. "He must clear off," Adebayor was quoted as saying. "The only thing Mr. Hayatou and his friends know Continued from Bl Its statement said Togo was banned "in conformity with article 78" as if that somehow makes it right. It provided a Web link to the now infamous regulation.

The rule says teams that withdraw at short notice from the biennial tournament can be suspended for two following editions and can also be fined. It says nothing about the need for compassion and common sense. Climbing on the highest but lamest horse it could find, CAF portrayed the punishment as an effort to preserve the independence of African soccer. It said the Togolese players themselves wanted to compete in the tournament despite the attack on their bus but that Togo's government forced them home. Such political interference in soccer matters breaks CAF rules, it argued.

Brains mm Lb Continued from Bl and brain damage in boxers, football players and a former NHL player and the group has been critical of the NFL's stance on concussions. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell met in October with a member of the center to discuss concussions and the BU project. The NFL took several steps this season to ramp up its attention to concussions in the aftermath of a congressional hearing on the topic and as high-pro file players such as Ben Ro-ethlisberger, Kurt Warner, Clinton Portis and Brian Westbrook were sidelined by head injuries. The league's steps Included stricter return-to-play guidelines detailing what symptoms preclude someone from participating in games or practices; a mandate that each team select aleague- and union: approved independent neurologist to be consulted when players get concus sions; and the departure of the two co-chairmen of the NFL's committee on brain trauma..

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