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Springfield-United boys basketball

Tuesday’s boys varsity basketball game between Springfield and United was postponed.

It was rescheduled for Jan. 20 at United, with the junior varsity game scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.

Canfield-Howland girls basketball

The Canfield-Howland girls varsity basketball game, originally scheduled for Jan. 10, has been rescheduled for Feb. 18, at Howland.

The junior varsity game is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.

Harding basketball

Warren Harding has rescheduled two home basketball games, postponed from last Saturday.

The girls varsity game against Cardinal Mooney has been rescheduled for Jan. 26, with the junior varsity game set to begin at 6 p.m.

The boys varsity game against Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary has been reset for Feb. 3, with a 6 p.m. junior varsity start.

Bisons to watch

BETHANY, W.Va. – Three Bethany College baseball players were selected by Collegiate Baseball as players to watch for the 2009 season.

Junior 1B/DH Chris Leasure (Stafford), sophomore OF Tyler Dillinger (McKeesport, Pa.) and sophomore OF Mike Pegg (Uniontown, Pa.) were selected.

Titan coach injured

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Westminster assistant football coach Scott Coy is in serious condition after falling four stories through a hotel window to a concrete sidewalk at the American Football Coaches Association convention.

Coy, 29, who is 6-foot-2 and 300 pounds, was apparently wrestling with Darren DeMeio around 4 a.m.

Coy is from New Castle, Pa. He was in critical condition and having surgery Tuesday afternoon at Vanderbilt University.

DeMeio, 24, is 6-4, 225 pounds and from Clinton, Ohio. Police said he was in fair condition but remained in the hospital as of Tuesday afternoon.

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Kehres selected

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — San Jose State’s Dick Tomey took over Tuesday as president of the American Football Coaches Association, replacing Tyrone Willingham.

Coaches elected Tomey during a lunch at their annual convention here. Willingham had served as president for the past year of the group with more than 10,000 members.

Tomey had been first vice president of AFCA, which was founded in 1922.

He called becoming president a thrill since he could remember his first trip to the AFCA convention, riding in the back of a station wagon with six other coaches in 1964.

Larry Kehres of Mount Union College takes over as first vice president with Rob Ash of Montana State second vice president and Oregon coach Mike Bellotti third vice president.

Pirates transactions

PITTSBURGH — Outfielder Craig Monroe and catcher Miguel Perez agreed Tuesday to minor league contracts with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Monroe hit .202 with eight home runs and 29 RBIs in 58 games with the Twins last season. He has a .253 career average with 112 homers and 417 RBIs in 780 games with the Rangers, Tigers, Cubs and Twins from 2001-08.

Monroe had a career-high 28 homers and 92 RBIs for the AL champion Tigers in 2006, but his production slipped to 12 homers and 59 RBIs in 122 games with the Tigers and Cubs in 2007.

Sox ink Smoltz

BOSTON — The familiar cap with the “A” on the front no longer fit, so John Smoltz turned to Plan B — Boston.

After playing all 20 of his major league seasons with the Atlanta Braves, the only pitcher in baseball history with 200 wins and 150 saves is starting over at age 41 with the Red Sox.

Orioles sign Uehara

BALTIMORE — Right-hander Koji Uehara finalized a $10 million, two-year contract with the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday, making him the first Japanese-born player in franchise history.

The 33-year-old Uehara, who agreed to terms last week, completed the contract after passing a physical.

He gets $5 million a year and could make more in performance bonuses. If he makes 34 starts and pitches 200 innings in each season, he would earn $16 million.

Assembly subpoenas Yankees over stadium

ALBANY, N.Y. — A New York Assembly committee investigating the use of millions of dollars in public funding to build the new Yankee Stadium has subpoenaed the team’s president.

Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, a Democrat from Westchester County, said Tuesday that his committee subpoenaed Yankees president Randy Levine as well as city Industrial Development Agency Chairman Seth Pinsky.

Brodsky said the subpoenas compel the officials to appear for questioning at a hearing today, and to provide documents the committee wants for its investigation into whether public money should be used for the new stadium in the Bronx.

Vindicator staff/wire reports