Sports in Brief | Revealed: Jimbo's jumbo buyout clause
Florida State must pay offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher $2.5 million if he is not hired to replace Bobby Bowden, 78, as head coach in three years. However, Fisher would have to pay an equal amount to leave before then.
Florida State must pay offensive coordinator
Jimbo Fisher
$2.5 million if he is not hired to replace
Bobby Bowden
, 78, as head coach in three years. However, Fisher would have to pay an equal amount to leave before then.
Florida State released Fisher's contract yesterday after the West Virginia native was mentioned in published reports as a potential candidate to take over for
Rich Rodriguez
as Mountaineers coach.
Rodriguez left West Virginia to take over at Michigan.
All-American
Tyler Hansbrough
was listed as probable for North Carolina's game tomorrow night against Nicholls State after he suffered a concussion during Sunday's victory at Rutgers.
Hansbrough was injured while taking a charge from
Earl Pettis
with 5 minutes, 47 seconds left in the Tar Heels' 93-71 victory. The back of Hansbrough's head hit a television cameraman's knee and then the bottom of the basket support.
Stanford basketball forward
Brook Lopez
regained his academic eligibility, clearing him to return to competition. He had missed nine games for the Cardinal (8-1).
Lopez and his 7-foot twin,
Robin
, are sophomores who played key roles last season. Brook Lopez averaged 12.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in 25 minutes last season, earning him Pac-10 all-freshman honors.
Penn State's
Geary Claxton
was named the Big Ten men's basketball player of the week. The Nittany Lions'
Tyra Grant
won the women's honor.
Widener senior cornerback
Orlando Brown
earned honorable mention on D3Football.com's all-American team.
Washington football coach
Tyrone Willingham
fired defensive coordinator
Kent Baer
and tight ends coach
Bob Simmons
. The Huskies went 4-9 this season.
Soccer
Brazil midfielder
Kaka
captured FIFA's world player of the year award.
The Milan playmaker received 1,047 points, ahead of
Messi
with 504 and
Cristiano Ronaldo
with 426 in a vote by national team captains and managers. The three were picked as finalists from a list of 30 candidates.
On the women's side,
Marta
of Brazil captured the award with 988 points, ahead of
Birgit Prinz
of Germany with 507 and
Cristiane
of Brazil with 150.
Houston Dynamo head coach
Dominic Kinnear
, who led his team to back-to-back MLS championships, received a contract extension through 2010.
Kinnear has a 53-30-41 record, including a 15-8-7 mark last season.
High schools
The Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association is having second thoughts about inviting
Roger Clemens
to its annual session next month after allegations in the Mitchell Report that the seven-time Cy Young Award winner used steroids.
Jim Long
, president of the association, said his group plans on holding an executive meeting today to decide if Clemens will remain as one of its presenters in Waco. It is the country's largest high school baseball coaches' association, Long said.
Clemens had been scheduled for the last eight months to talk about pitching and "what he did on a daily basis that kept him in shape," Long said.