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Men's basketball
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown State's men's basketball game against UW-Milwaukee at the Beeghly Center on Jan. 26, has been moved from 7:05 p.m. to 7:35 p.m.
The change was made minutes to accommodate the Cleveland Indians Media Tour & amp; KidsFest benefiting Tod Children's Hospital that will be held in the Stambaugh Stadium gymnasium with doors opening at 5 p.m.
The admission price is $10 for adults and $5 for children 12-and-under.
Tickets for the Indians KidsFest are available by phone by calling (330) 884-4772.
Patriots promoteJosh McDaniels
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The New England Patriots promoted 29-year-old quarterbacks coach Josh McDaniels to offensive coordinator Friday, making him the youngest coordinator in the NFL.
"I don't really look at my age as being a factor one way or the other," said McDaniels, the son of Warren Harding football coach Thom McDaniels.
McDaniels joined the Patriots in 2001 as an assistant in the scouting department and was a member of the defensive coaching staff for three seasons before becoming quarterbacks coach in 2004.
Canfield hockey
BOARDMAN -- Canfield High defeated Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy 5-1 in a hockey game Friday at The Ice Zone.
Zack Kovacs scored a hat trick for the Cardinals.
Gary Tomko and Will Jensen added one goal apiece for Canfield.
Tony Carney, Chris Shade and Connor McNamara had two assists each for the Cardinals, while George West, Nick Manos and Mark Novotny all had one.
Brian Moore was the winning goalie.
REGION
Steroids suspension
COLUMBUS -- Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Bryan Berard accepted a two-year suspension Friday from international competition for taking a banned steroid, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Friday.
The suspension will not keep Berard from playing in the NHL.
A sample taken from Berard on Nov. 12 tested positive for 19-norandrosterone, a steroid that helps athletes add strength and muscle and lose weight.
The sample was collected after his name was submitted by USA Hockey as a potential Olympic participant.
Modell speaks
CLEVELAND -- Sore feelings over Art Modell's move of the Cleveland Browns 10 years ago were renewed when he told a radio interviewer that community leaders reneged on an offer to provide financial help.
"I didn't want to go to Baltimore," Modell said Thursday evening in a telephone interview with WTAM.
Community leaders had offered to help but "they lied to me," Modell said.
U.S. Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, a former Cleveland mayor who was Ohio governor when the Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens, said it was Modell who hadn't been honest.
As a result, Voinovich told the station, the community doesn't feel it can trust Modell.
"That's why he hasn't come back here," Voinovich said.
Modell said a leading politician suggested that he move the Browns because no financial help would be forthcoming.
Voinovich said he never advised Modell to move the team.
Crew gets Garey
COLUMBUS -- The Columbus Crew took college player of the year Jason Garey with the third overall pick of the Major League Soccer draft on Friday.
Garey, a forward at Maryland, finished his collegiate career with 60 goals and 20 assists in 96 games.
The Crew took forward Kei Kamara of Cal State-Domingo Hills with its second pick -- the ninth of the first round.
Its other picks were defender Jed Zayner of Indiana in the second round; midfielder Brandon Moss of New Mexico in the third round; midfielder/forward Dayton O'Brien of Memphis, also in the third round; and forward Duke Hashimoto of Southern Methodist in the fourth round.
NATION
Kobe to play for U.S.
PHOENIX -- Kobe Bryant plans to play for the U.S. team at this year's world basketball championships and the 2008 Olympics.
Bryant gave an emphatic nod to joining the U.S. team in a meeting Friday with the head of USA Basketball, Jerry Colangelo.
Cuba in Classic
NEW YORK -- The Bush administration is letting Cuba play ball.
The Cubans will be allowed to participate in the inaugural World Baseball Classic after the U.S. government reversed course Friday and issued the special license necessary for the communist nation to play in the 16-team baseball tournament.
Baseball's first application was denied in mid-December by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Then the commissioner's office and the players' association reapplied Dec. 22 after Cuba said it would donate any profits it receives to victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The tournament runs from March 3-20.
Vindicator staff/wire reports