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Mooney to host H.O.F. fundraiser
YOUNGSTOWN
Cardinal Mooney High School will host its 25th Athletic Hall of Fame dinner at Mr. Anthony’s in Boardman on Feb. 19.
It’s a buffet dinner with an open bar from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. with the honorary program.
The honorees are: Robert Banks (golf coach), Larry Berasi (football), Jim Campbell (baseball), Tarisa Craig (softball, volleyball), Rachael Dedo (basketball), Cheryl Diorio (soccer), Mark Franklin (football), Mike Guerrieri (football), Shayla Lewis (football), Jennifer Lorenzi (softball), George Reider (football, baseball), Rev. Bernard Schmalzried (contributions), Aaron Stamp (football) and Michael Venrose (basketball).
For information, call 330-788-5007.
Track and field rules meeting scheduled
AUSTINTOWN
The Greater Youngstown Track Officials Association is hosting a mandatory track and field rules meeting on Feb. 1 in Austintown Fitch’s auditorium. All coaches and officials must attend a state rules meeting every year. .32 starter shells are for sale at the meeting at $30 per box and there’s a 50/50 raffle. For more information, email gyota@yahoo.com.
Phantoms trade Farmer for picks
YOUNGSTOWN
The Youngstown Phantoms have traded defenseman Ty Farmer and a 10th-round phase one draft pick to the Muskegon Lumberjacks for additional picks, the team announced on Wednesday.
The Phantoms will receive a phase one fourth round pick and a phase two fifth round pick in return. In 87 games with the Phantoms, Farmer had two goals, 13 assists and 68 shots on goal.
Michigan paying three assistants $1 million
ANN ARBOR, MICH.
Michigan is committed to paying Jim Harbaugh’s top three assistants $1 million each per year.
Defensive coordinator Don Brown and offensive coordinator Tim Drevno have been retained with contracts worth more than $10 million combined over the next five years. Passing coordinator Pep Hamilton was lured away from the Cleveland Browns with a $4.25 million, four-year deal.
Terms of their deals were obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press with a Freedom of Information Act request.
Brown’s contract calls for him to make $1 million annually in the first four years and $1.4 million in 2021. He is eligible for a retention bonus of $300,000 on April 1 of this year and next year, and $400,000 in April of 2019 and 2020. Drevno’s deal is worth $1 million each year plus a $150,000 signing bonus this month.
Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel extended the offers to Brown and Drevno in December before the Wolverines lost to Florida State in the Orange Bowl.
On Jan. 9, Manuel extended an offer to Hamilton in writing.
Harbaugh added Hamilton, who was an associate head coach for the Cleveland Browns last season, after Jedd Fisch left his staff to be UCLA’s offensive coordinator. Hamilton’s salary will be $1 million in the first three years of his deal before getting a bump to $1.25 million in 2020.
Boston Celtics to have GE patch on jerseys
BOSTON
The Boston Celtics will take to the parquet court next season wearing a General Electric Co. logo on their uniforms.
The team said Wednesday it has a three-year deal that makes the company its exclusive data analytics partner. The agreement calls for a GE patch — in green and white, not the traditional GE blue — on jerseys above the player’s left breast.
The Celtics are the third NBA team to announce a deal to wear a sponsor’s patch on its jersey since the league gave the go-ahead. The Philadelphia 76ers and Sacramento Kings also have deals that were worth a reported $5 million apiece.
Financial terms of the Celtics deal were not announced.
GE moved its headquarters from Connecticut to Boston last summer.
Staff/wire report