No. 11 Florida State spoils Pitt’s ACC debut

September 3, 2013 at 12:00a.m.

PITTSBURGH

Redshirt freshman quarterback Jameis Winston passed for 356 yards and four touchdowns in a spectacular debut and No. 11 Florida State dominated Pittsburgh 41-13 on Monday night. The Panthers had been pointing to the opener from the moment the program announced the move from the Big East to the ACC nearly two years ago.

Scrappers rained out

AUBURN, N.Y.

The Mahoning Valley Scrappers’ game Monday at Auburn was postponed by rain. The Scrappers and Doubledays are scheduled to play a doubleheader today beinning at 5:35 p.m.

The Scrappers’ final scheduled game of the season is Wednesday at Auburn.

YSU in 25th spot in poll

SPARTANSBURG, S.C.

Youngstown State dropped one spot to 25th in the Coaches Football Championship Subdivision poll released Monday. The Penguins, ranked 24th in the preseason poll, defeated Dayton, 24-10, on Thursday. YSU faces Morehead State on Saturday.

Heartland beaten, 8-1

COLUMBIANA

Heartland Christian dropped an 8-1 boys soccer decision on Saturday to Lake Center Christian. Caleb House tallied the Lions’ only goal.

CBS, Time Warner strike agreement

NEW YORK

TV network CBS and cable provider Time Warner Cable ended their monthlong programming dispute on Monday and resumed broadcasts to millions of homes in New York, Dallas and Los Angeles. The agreement ended a blackout of CBS and CBS-owned channels that included Showtime Networks, CBS Sports Network and the Smithsonian channel. The companies were in dispute over how much Time Warner Cable Inc. would pay for CBS Corp. programming.

Bale goes to Madrid as Ozil exits for Arsenal

LONDON

In Spain, gripped by economic recession for years, fans marked football’s transfer deadline day by turning out in the thousands to greet the game’s first 100 million-euro player. Gareth Bale was paraded Monday inside the Santiago Bernabeu stadium a day after completing his world-record $132-million move to Real Madrid from Premier League club Tottenham. The 24-year-old Bale will earn a reported $461,000 a week in Spain, which is plagued by an unemployment rate exceeding 26 percent, highlighting how the country’s leading football teams — Madrid and Barcelona — thrive in an economic bubble.

Madrid did recoup half of the Bale fee by selling Mesut Ozil to Arsenal, becoming the Premier League’s most expensive signing in 2013 as the English league’s clubs spent over a record $932 million in the summer window.

Warzycha out as head coach at Columbus

COLUMBUS

The Columbus Crew has fired Robert Warzycha after five years as head coach. Technical Director and former Crew defender Brian Bliss will fill in as interim. Assistant coaches Ricardo Iribarren and Vojislav Stanisic were also let go and will be replaced soon.

The Crew is 8-13-5 (29 points) and eighth place in Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference.

Warzycha, a former Crew player and assistant coach, was 70-59-41, tied with Tom Fitzgerald (1996-2001) for the most regular-season wins as coach.

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Staff reports/Associated Press