Wannstedt gets two more years
Pittsburgh football coach Dave Wannstedt signed a two-year contract extension that runs through the 2014 season. Wannstedt had a 16-19 record in his first three seasons, receiving his first extension hours before Pitt upset then-No. 2 West Virginia, 13-9, to end the 2007 season.
Pittsburgh football coach Dave Wannstedt signed a two-year contract extension that runs through the 2014 season.
Wannstedt had a 16-19 record in his first three seasons, receiving his first extension hours before Pitt upset then-No. 2 West Virginia, 13-9, to end the 2007 season.
The Panthers were a combined 19-7 in 2008 and 2009, going 10-3 last season. They lost to Cincinnati, 45-44, to end the regular season but beat North Carolina, 19-17, in the Meineke Car Care Bowl.
Oregon Attorney General John Kroger is looking into a $2.3 million severance package for departing University of Oregon athletic director Mike Bellotti.
Bellotti, who was the Ducks' football coach for 14 seasons, abruptly announced on March 19 that he was stepping down as Oregon's AD after less than a year on the job. He has taken a job as a college football analyst for ESPN.
La Salle third baseman Brendan Norton was named Big Five player of the week. Teammate Kevin Christy, a righthander, was named pitcher of the week.
SOCCER: FC Dallas defender Kyle Davies is expected to miss at least six weeks after surgery to repair his broken right arm.
Major League Soccer announced that it will hold its championship game, the MLS Cup, on Nov. 21 at BMO Field in Toronto.
Argentina coach Diego Maradona was bitten by one of his pet dogs and had reconstructive surgery on his upper lip. Argentine television said Maradona, 49, was playing with the dog at his home in suburban Buenos Aires. The breed was identified as a Shar Pei.
GOLF: A federal judge in Durham, N.C., dismissed a lawsuit filed after the son of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was kicked off Duke University's golf team.
Andrew Giuliani alleged that Duke's golf coach manufactured accusations against him to justify dismissing him from the team in 2008, when he was a junior.
LACROSSE: The Temple women's lacrosse team will host a fund-raiser to fight pediatric brain tumors at Saturday's home game against Massachusetts. Temple will honor the memory of Devon Marie Lam, who had been "adopted" by the team but died last year.
BOXING: WBC lightweight champion Edwin Valero entered a rehabilitation center in Merida, Venezuela, on Sunday for treatment of drug and alcohol addiction, according to one of the boxer's lawyers.
TENNIS: Andy Roddick beat Benjamin Becker, 7-6 (4), 6-3, at the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Fla.