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Michigan picks San Diego State coach Brady Hoke as its new football coach
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Ohio State beats Michigan 68-64 in front of Hoke
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — William Buford scored 19 points and No. 2 Ohio State went on a 12-0 run in the second half before holding on to beat Michigan 68-64 on Wednesday night. The Wolverines (11-6, 1-3 Big Ten) rallied from a 53-41 Deficit, pulling within 64-62 after Zack Novak made two free throws with 22.3 seconds left. Michigan then fouled Buford, who made a pair of free throws with 18.6 seconds to play. Darius Morris scored on a drive with 12.4 seconds to go, but Aaron Craft made two m...

Michigan picks Hoke as new football coach
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan has picked Brady Hoke as its new Football Coach. Athletic Director Dave Brandon announced the decision Tuesday, hours after LSU said Les Miles would be staying with the Tigers. Hoke coached San Diego State in 2009-10 and was the Ball State coach from 2003-08. He will be introduced at a news conference in Ann Arbor on Wednesday. He replaces Rich Rodriguez, who was fired last week after three disappointing seasons. Cam Do! Auburn wins BCS title 22-19 over OU ...

Report: Rocky Long new SDSU football coach
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- San Diego State University will name Defensive Coordinator Rocky Long as new head Football Coach, media reports in San Diego said. Long would replace Brady Hoke, who was hired for the top job at Michigan Tuesday. The San Diego Union-Tribune and KGTV-TV, San Diego, said the announcement would be made Wednesday. Long was Defensive Coordinator for the Aztecs for two seasons. Prior to his stint in San Diego, Long was head coach at New Mexico for 11 years. Long joined Hoke...

New 7-year deal for Miles at LSU
BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Football Coach Les Miles has agreed to a new seven-year, $26.2 million contract to stay at Louisiana State. The school announced Tuesday that Miles wasn't leaving LSU for Michigan, his Alma Mater. Michigan officials shortly after that announcement said they'd hired San Diego State's Brady Hoke as the Wolverines' football coach. Miles, who reportedly had been under contract through 2014, will be paid $3.751 million per year. While that doesn't reflect a raise ov...

Michigan gets its man, hiring Brady Hoke
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Athletic Director Dave Brandon is learning that Brady Hoke is a pretty popular coach. Hoke might not have been the fans’ first choice to take over College Football’s winningest program, but Brandon became convinced he should have been after calling his former players and hearing the same thing time after time. “He is clearly a players’ coach,” Brandon said Wednesday in his opening remarks at a news conference to introduce Hoke....

LeBron sees karma in Cavs 55-point loss
CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James has tweaked Dan Gilbert — and the Cavaliers owner’s miserable NBA team — with a tweet. As James’ former teammates were absorbing a 55-point loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night, the player fired off a message on his Twitter account that seemed to be directed at Gilbert. James wrote: “Crazy. Karma is a b—-.. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!” In July, after James a...

Les Miles has a new 7-year contract at LSU
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU and Les Miles have agreed in principle to a new contract that will run through the 2017 season. LSU Athletic Director Joe Alleva says Miles’ annual pay of a little more than $3.75 million will remain the same. Miles has won 62 games and five bowls including a 2007 national title in his first six years with the Tigers. Alleva says the university wants to maintain stability at the top of a winning program. Miles, who met with Michigan Athletic Director Dave ...

Anthony leads Nuggets to 132-98 rout of Suns
DENVER (AP) — Arron Afflalo scored a career-high 31 points and Carmelo Anthony followed up one of his worst shooting performances with a 28-point effort, helping the Denver Nuggets snap a three-game skid with a 132-98 rout of the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday night. Anthony, the subject of trade talks all season, was greeted early by the crowd with a smattering of boos but quickly reversed the mood with his hustle and hanging jumpers. He also grabbed 10 rebounds. That was a sharp contrast to Sun...

Softball stars not playing for US team
CLEVELAND (AP) — Two-time Olympic medalist Jessica Mendoza and several teammates will not play for the U.S. national softball team this year, opting to play professionally in hopes of growing the sport. Mendoza said Wednesday she and others informed USA Softball this month that they would not attend the U.S. team’s June camp so they can play in the National Pro Fastpitch league. Mendoza says it’s difficult to play professionally and for the U.S. team. The National Team lost fun...

COL BKB: Penn State 57, Illinois 55
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Talor Battle's 26 points led Penn State to a 57-55 win over 16th-ranked Illinois Tuesday. Battle scored 17 of his 26 points in the second half and put up a missed shot with 0.7 seconds to play that Andrew Jones turned into the winning basket on a Slam Dunk. The victory was the second in a row over a ranked opponent for Penn State (10-6, 3-2 Big Ten). Jones scored 12 points and was the only other player in double figures for the Nittany Lions, who shot just ...

CIA Vet Kent Clizbe stalks hockey stick author Mike Mann
Recent Global Warming is unprecedented in magnitude and speed and cause (see “Human-caused Arctic warming overtakes 2,000 years of natural cooling, “seminal” study finds“). Since the anti-science crowd can’t stand that science-based conclusion, they go after the scientists behind it, or rather, just one of them - in spite of the multiple independent confirming studies (see “Two more independent studies back the Hockey Stick” ).  A year ago I wrote about

Dental jihad: Neo-Nazi who became jihadist bites FBI agents who attempted to question him
Emerson Begolly, who calls himself Asadullah Alshishani, apparently decided to exchange one tradition of antisemitism for a much older and more established one. When it is not railing against Jews and other non-Muslims, the Qur'an commands Jihadists to strike at the necks of unbelievers in battle (47:4). But sometimes, in a pinch, a mujahid's gotta improvise. "Nazi Buff Turned Jihadi Allegedly Bites FBI Agents, " by Hanna Siegel for ABCNews, January 6: A Pennsylvania man who has posted jihadi ...

Wildlife: Amid the Ruins of Haiti, Conservationists Find Endangered Frogs
Even before the Earthquake a year ago that killed at least 220,000 people, Haiti was an ecological nightmare. Large-scale Deforestation has left less than 2% of the original forest cover standing—a fact that is starkly apparent when flying between Haiti and its neighboring country the Dominican Republic, which has conserved far more of its forests. The cloud forests of the southwest mountains, home to some of the country's last remaining untouched ecology, are under threat. Biologists have...

COL BKB: Brigham Young 104, Utah 79
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Jimmer Fredette connected on six 3-pointers en route to a season-high 47 points Tuesday, sparking No. 10 Brigham Young to a 104-79 pounding of Utah. Fredette put in 32 of his points in the first half and went 16-of-28 from the field overall for the Cougars (17-1, 3-0 MWC), who have won seven in a row. Fredette's 47-point performance was two shy of the BYU single-game record of 49 he set in December 2009 against Arizona. Jackson Emery chipped in with 20 points whi...

Jimmer Fredette Buzzer Beater: BYU Star Hits 40-Footer As Time Expires, Misses Dunk (VIDEO)
Jimmer Fredette might be lauded as one of the best players in college Basketball right now, but even the greats occasionally make mistakes. The missed dunk came amidst an absolutely stellar performance; the star had 47 points including 6 three-pointers. Perhaps his best shot came right before the half, as Fredette sank a 40-foot buzzer-beater. His 29 point performance in the first half (already topping his average of 25) was concluded by this shot. BYU went on to win impressively, 104-79 over ...

Schools watch free-speech case on breast cancer bracelets
School districts nationwide have their eyes on a Federal Court case in Pennsylvania, which will address whether Students should be allowed to wear breast-cancer awareness bracelets that have become a Controversy in multiple states. The bracelets — which proclaim "I (heart symbol) boobies!" — have been banned in some districts. U.S. District Judge Mary McLaughlin will hear oral arguments on Feb. 18. "Anytime a case based on a First Amendment free-speech case crops up, then other schoo...

Texas faces budget shortfall; GOP likely to 'slash and burn'
AUSTIN, Texas | There is one enduring political value in Texas: The state does not mollycoddle. In the best of times, it spends as little as possible providing aid to the unemployed, the sick and the injured. Texans have consistently elected lawmakers who will add to the Public Safety net only when threatened with a federal Lawsuit. And now that the state must overcome a $15 billion Budget shortfall, life for those who rely on the state for employment or support is likely to get even tougher. Th...

Judge throws out Obama art lawsuits
A judge has dismissed Copyright Lawsuits between the artist who created an iconic portrait of Barack Obama and the Associated Press. US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said it appeared that the artist, Shepard Fairey, and AP had reached a settlement. He said the claims could be reinstated within a month if either side requested it. The agency tried to claim compensation from the artist in February last year for his use of one of its photographs. The picture was taken in 2006 when Mr Obama, then...

Brady Hoke to take over Michigan football
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Brady Hoke, a former Michigan assistant who was the head coach at San Diego State, has been hired as the head Football Coach for the Michigan Wolverines. Hoke, 52, replaces Rich Rodriguez, who was fired last week after three seasons at Michigan. The Wolverines were 15-22 -- 7-6 this past season -- under Rodriguez Hoke was a defensive line coach at Michigan from 1995-2002. He left the Wolverines to become the head coach at Ball State, his Alma Mater. After six s...

Les Miles to stay at LSU
BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Louisiana State announced Tuesday that Football Coach Les Miles, who had been considering moving to Michigan, is staying at LSU. Miles, a Michigan alumnus, had spoken with officials at Michigan about replacing Rich Rodriguez, who was fired last week. Rodriguez had been the coach at Michigan for three seasons during which the Wolverines went a combined 15-22, including 0-6 against arch-rivals Ohio State and Michigan State. Miles, 57, has been at Louisiana State ...

Coach Les Miles headed to Michigan?
DETROIT, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Louisiana State Football Coach Les Miles is thought to be the top Candidate for the head coaching job at Michigan, The Detroit News reported Monday. Miles led LSU to the 2007 national championship and his team beat Texas A&M; 41-24 in the Cotton Bowl Friday night. Michigan Coach Rich Rodriguez was fired last week after going 15-22 in three seasons there. A News report said Miles, a former Michigan player and assistant coach, was believed to be the "strongest candidate" f...

Brady Hoke ushers in new era of Michigan football
This time, he was not alone. This time, he was smiling. This time, he brought along his Football Coach: Brady Hoke. Hoke, 52, hired Tuesday as Michigan’s 19th head coach, was introduced today at a 1 p.m. news conference. Watch the news conference here. In his opening remarks, Hoke stressed how much he wanted the job: “I promise you we would have walked to the University of Michigan.” Hoke thanked Rich Rodriguez and his staff for giving “three years...

Orange leaders laud UCF Coach OLeary, Orlando Mayor Dyer
Orange County Commissioners are going to formally pat University of Central Florida Football Coach George O’Leary on the back at its meeting Tuesday with a resolution congratulating him for his successful season. County leaders also plan to give a civic high-five to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer for his a recent leadership award. Orange’s praise for O’Leary will probably not compare to the $400,000 in bonuses he just got from the school for his gridiron accomplishments, which includ...

COL BKB: Marquette 79, Notre Dame 57
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Dwight Buycks and Jae Crowder combined for 39 points Monday and Marquette rolled to a 79-57 upset of No. 11 Notre Dame. Buycks pumped in 21 points and Crowder added 18 points and seven rebounds for the Golden Eagles (12-5, 3-1 Big East). Darius Johnson-Odom contributed 13 points and five assists for Marquette. The Fighting Irish (14-3, 3-2) had a two-game winning streak snapped. Eric Atkins netted 15 points and Scott Martin added 10 points and 11 rebounds for Notre Da...