College Basketball
No. 8 Duke and UNC rivalry postponed by ice and snow
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Wednesday’s rivalry game between No. 8 Duke and North Carolina has been postponed because of a storm that brought enough ice and snow to paralyze many area roads.
The Atlantic Coast Conference game will be played Feb. 20, though the time is undetermined.
The postponement came about 3½ hours before the scheduled tipoff at 7:10 p.m.
UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham said in a statement that Duke’s bus couldn’t make it to the Durham campus to pick up the Blue Devils for the 11-mile drive to Chapel Hill. He called the postponement “the best decision to make at this time” because of safety concerns.
College Football
Brown gets $2.75M cut and a one-year job at Texas
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas said Wednesday it agreed to pay former head coach Mack Brown $2.75 million – the amount owed him if he had been fired – and place him in a one-year, $500,000 job as a special assistant to the president for athletics.
Both options had been part of Brown’s original contract in separate clauses in case of resignation or termination. Brown announced Dec. 14 he would step down after Texas’ bowl game and called it a “mutual” decision between himself, athletic director Steve Patterson and school President Bill Powers. Brown was replaced by former Louisville head coach Charlie Strong.
MLB
Yankees’ all-time hits leader will retire at the end of 2014
NEW YORK – New York Yankees star shortstop Derek Jeter, who will turn 40 this season, said he will retire after this season.
Jeter posted a long letter on his Facebook account Wednesday that said 2014 will be his final year of playing professional baseball.
The 39-year-old Yankees’ captain missed much of last season because of injuries. He hit .190 with one homer and seven runs batted in in 17 games.
A 13-time All-Star shortstop who led the Yankees to five World Series championships, Jeter is the storied franchise’s career hits leader with 3,316. He’s ninth on the all-time list; a 200-hit season would put him in fifth place.
Jeter is a lifetime .312 hitter in 19 seasons, with 256 home runs and 1,261 RBIs. He has scored 1,876 runs, stolen 348 bases and is a five-time Gold Glove winner.
NFL
Williams reinstated as Rams’ defensive coordinator
ST. LOUIS – Gregg Williams is returning to the Rams as defensive coordinator for the first time since he lost his job in New Orleans as fallout from the bounty scandal.
The Rams announced the hiring Wednesday. He will replace Tim Walton, who was fired in January after just one season.
Rams’ head coach Jeff Fisher originally hired Williams in January 2012 but dropped him after the scandal broke.
Soccer
USA loses another key player to injury before World Cup
Timmy Chandler became the latest World Cup hopeful to suffer an injury setback over the weekend, another potential blow to the United States’ team depth as it prepares for a friendly at Ukraine next month.
Chandler, a defender for Nuremberg in the German Bundesliga, injured his left knee early in Saturday’s game against Bayern Munich.
Nuremberg later posted on the club’s Twitter account that the 23-year-old had torn his meniscus and will miss 8 to 10 weeks after surgery. That puts Chandler out of action likely until mid-April at the earliest, leaving him only a few opportunities to impress U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann before Nuremberg’s season ends.
Chandler is one of several American overseas hopefuls who have dealt with injures in recent weeks, including Steve Cherundolo, Aron Johannsson, Fabian Johnson, Jermaine Jones and Oguchi Onyewu.
Associated Press
