Sports in Brief: Thomas rejects Knicks' job offer

Isiah Thomas won't be returning to the New York Knicks, after all.

Thomas said Wednesday that he was declining a position as a consultant with the franchise he ran for 41/2 years because the position might not be legal.

The Knicks announced the agreement with Thomas on Friday. League personnel are not allowed contact with players who are not yet eligible for the draft, which Thomas would have in his role as Florida International coach.

The Indiana Pacers acquired point guard Darren Collison and forward James Posey from New Orleans in a four-way trade that also included New Jersey and Houston. The Pacers dealt forward Troy Murphy to the Nets, who sent guard Courtney Lee to Houston. The Rockets shipped swingman Trevor Ariza to New Orleans.

COLLEGES: Temple sophomore Bernard Pierce is one of 30 players named to the 2010 Walter Camp Player of the Year Watch List, the Walter Camp Football Foundation announced.

Rutgers football coach Greg Schiano named three seniors as team captains, including defensive lineman Charlie Noonan, a St. Joseph's Prep graduate. The other captains are center Howard Barbieri and defensive back Joe Lefeged.

Dillon Baxter, USC's prized freshman running back, was suspended for next month's season opener at Hawaii for violating team rules.

Women's lacrosse player Jill Davis, a recent La Salle graduate and a Ridley alum, won an Eastern College Athletic Conference Scholar-Athlete Award.

SOCCER: David Beckham's international career appears over after England coach Fabio Capello said the former captain, 35, is too old to play for the national team.

GOLF: Ben Cooley of Rydal fired a 3-over-par 74 to climb into a three-way tie for the lead after two rounds of the AJGA CorseMax/Philadelphia Runner tournament at White Manor Country Club in Malvern. Cooley was at 5-over 147 with Sean Kelly of Staten Island, N.Y., and Patrick O'Leary of Milton, Mass. Aurora Kan of Boothwyn shot a 2-under 69 in the girls' division for a 36-hole score of 140 and a 6-stroke lead.

Meghan (Bolger) Stasi, a former Voorhees resident now living in Oakland Park, Fla., lost, 4 and 3, to Kelly Shon of Port Washington, N.Y., in the first round of match play at the U.S. Women's Amateur in Charlotte, N.C. Penn sophomore Isabel Han lost, 1-up, to top seed Rachel Rohanna of Waynesburg, Pa.

GYMNASTICS: Ten years later, U.S. women's gymnasts from the Sydney Olympics received their bronze medals at a ceremony in Hartford, Conn. China had been stripped of the medals for using an underage gymnast.

- Staff and wire reports