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Browns add assistants

CLEVELAND — Browns coach Eric Mangini added two college assistants to his staff Tuesday — Steve Hagen of North Carolina as tight ends coach and Gary Brown of Rutgers as running backs coach.

Hagen coached Cleveland’s tight ends under Butch Davis from 2001-03 and the Browns’ quarterbacks in 2004. He spent the past two seasons with Davis as the Tar Heels’ tight ends coach.

Brown, a former NFL running back, played eight seasons with Houston, San Diego and the New York Giants. He was running backs coach at Rutgers last season.

Cavs’ Wallace cuts arm during All-Star break

CLEVELAND — Cavaliers center Ben Wallace needed 14 stitches to close a cut in his right forearm after injuring himself over the NBA All-Star break.

The team said Wallace sustained lacerations from glass while playing catch with a football in Richmond, Va. When he got back to Cleveland on Monday, Wallace underwent further evaluation at the Cleveland Clinic and had more pieces of glass removed from his arm on Tuesday, the Cavs said in a statement.

The Cavaliers listed Wallace as questionable for tonight’s game in Toronto.

Cleveland’s best defensive interior player, Wallace is averaging 3.1 points and 6.7 rebounds this season.

Blue Jackets place Modin on injured list

COLUMBUS — The Columbus Blue Jackets placed left wing Fredrik Modin on injured reserve with a lower body injury Tuesday, the second time this season he’s been out hurt.

The move is retroactive to Saturday when Modin was injured in the Blue Jackets’ 5-1 win at Carolina. He was evaluated by team physicians when the club returned to Columbus and is expected to miss at least a week.

Modin also spent time on the injured list in October and November with a groin injury.

The 34-year-old has nine goals and 16 assists in 49 games this season. In 813 career NHL games, he has 220 goals and 221 assists with the Blue Jackets, Tampa Bay Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs.

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Penn St. attendance finishes 2nd in Big 10

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The Penn State Nittany Lions may have won the Big Ten, but they remain second behind Michigan when it comes to attendance.

Penn State drew an average of more than 108,200 fans for its seven home football games in 2008.

According to recently released figures from the NCAA, that was second among major college football programs behind only Michigan’s average of about 108,500.

Penn State finished second in attendance for the third straight year.

The 2008 season average also fell just short of the school record set the previous year. The 2007 campaign drew roughly 650 more fans per game on average.

Pirates sign McLouth

BRADENTON, Fla. — Just hours before a scheduled arbitration hearing, the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday signed outfielder Nate McLouth to a three-year contract, with a club option for a fourth.

Financial details were not immediately available.

McLouth is in Phoenix, where his arbitration hearing was scheduled to be held. He was expected to return to Pirate City on Tuesday night.

Tuesday was the Pirates’ first full-squad workout. McLouth was the last unsigned player in Pirates camp.

Last season, he hit .276 with 26 home runs and 94 RBIs, was named to the All-Star team and won a Gold Glove in center field.

Pa. woman to lead US Curtis Cup team

FAR HILLS, N.J. — An amateur golfer from Bethlehem, Pa., has been selected as captain of the United States team for the 2010 Curtis Cup.

The United States Golf Association announced Tuesday that 55-year-old Noreen Friel Mohler will lead a team of American women against their amateur counterparts from Great Britain and Ireland in the biennial competition. It is to be held at Essex County Club in Manchester, Mass., in June 2010.

Mohler was a member of the 1978 U.S. team that won the cup by a 12-6 score at The Apawamis Club in Rye, N.Y.

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Soccer official killed

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — The president of a top Costa Rican soccer team was killed by gunmen on a motorcycle as he was driving his car.

Attorney General Francisco Dall’Anese said the attack on Adrian Castro may have been a revenge killing. He gave no other details Tuesday.

There was no evidence the 50-year-old team president was targeted because of his connection to the first-division club Puntarenas, which was leading Group A in the Costa Rican league.

Cricket suspension

LONDON — English and West Indies cricket officials suspended negotiations with backer Allen Stanford on Tuesday after the Texas billionaire was charged by U.S. regulators over an alleged multibillion dollar fraud.

Vindicator staff/wire reports