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49ers trade S Mays to Bengals for pick (AP)
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Safety Taylor Mays is getting a chance to start over with a team that's been interested in him since his college days. The Cincinnati Bengals acquired the second-year player from the San Francisco 49ers on Tuesday in a trade for an undisclosed draft pick. Mays spent the morning trying to learn the playbook, then practiced with the team in the afternoon.

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Serena seeded 28th for US Open (AP)
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Serena Williams was seeded 28th for the U.S. Open, which stuck with its policy of following the rankings instead of taking into account players' past performances. That decision means Williams could face one of the Grand Slam tournament's top eight seeded players as early as the third round. The 29-year-old American leads active women with 13 major championships, including three at Flushing...

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Anthony: No meeting with Nets' Prokhorov (AP)
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Carmelo Anthony just wants it over, without saying where he hopes it will end. The season-long trade speculation involving Denver's All-Star forward is nearing completion, with the deadline for deals arriving Thursday afternoon. Anthony would love a quicker answer. "My mind's boggled right now about this whole situation," Anthony said Friday.

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Wittels' hitting streak ends at 56 games (AP)
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Garrett Wittels' hitting streak is over at 56 games. The Florida International shortstop went 0 for 4 against Southeastern Louisiana on Friday night, leaving him two games shy of matching Robin Ventura's 58-game Division I record set in 1987. His streak goes down as the third-longest in collegiate baseball history.

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Rodman among 12 Hall of Fame finalists (AP)
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Dennis Rodman, Jamaal Wilkes and Tex Winter were among 12 finalists announced Friday for induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Rodman was the flamboyant rebounder who won five NBA titles with Chicago and Detroit; Wilkes won four NBA titles with Golden State and the Lakers after starring at UCLA; and Winter was the architect of the triangle and triple-post offense.

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Leyland: Cabrera arrest not distraction (AP)
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Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland is confident slugger Miguel Cabrera's arrest this week will have no effect on the team's performance. Cabrera was arrested late Wednesday on suspicion of drunken driving in Fort Pierce, about 110 miles southeast of Lakeland, where the Tigers hold spring training.

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Colts release injury-prone S Sanders (AP)
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Bob Sanders couldn't stay healthy and the Indianapolis Colts couldn't afford to keep investing in the oft-injured safety. Team owner Jim Irsay released the 2007 NFL defensive player of the year on Friday, announcing the decision less than 24 hours after he told reporters he would make a decision about Sanders' future before March 3.

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Former Bears S Duerson dies at 50 (AP)
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Dave Duerson, a four-time Pro Bowl safety who played on Super Bowl winners with the Chicago Bears and New York Giants, has died. He was 50. The Bears released a statement Friday saying they were "stunned and saddened" by the news and called Duerson "a great contributor to our team and the Chicago community." "Today is a difficult day for all of us who loved Dave," the...

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Injured Cards OF Edmonds retires at 40 (AP)
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Jim Edmonds drove a pitch over the right-field wall late last season and began home run trot No. 393. Somewhere between second and third base at Miller Park on Sept. 21, he took a few awkward steps. "Something popped," he said then. Turns out that was the end of a 17-year major league career. Two weeks after he agreed to a minor league contract that returned him to the St.

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Man in Auburn tree poisoning out on bail (AP)
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The man charged in the poisoning of two oak trees at Auburn's Toomer's Corner has been released from jail. Lee County Sheriff's Major Tommy Carter said Friday evening that 62-year-old Harvey Almorn Updyke Jr. has posted bail, which was set at $50,000. Police charged Updyke with first-degree criminal mischief on Thursday for allegedly using a tree-killing herbicide to poison the oaks.

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Pats, Giants set for Super Bowl rematch (AP)
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MVP quarterbacks on marquee franchises. A rematch of a nail-biter from four years ago, featuring many of the same key characters. Madonna and plenty of Manning -- Eli, and Peyton, too. This Super Bowl certainly has all the makings of another thriller, the perfect finish to a season that began in turmoil and wound up the most successful in league history.

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Denmon's late 3s rally Mizzou by Kansas (AP)
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After a bunch of off-target games, Marcus Denmon couldn't miss. Especially at the finish. The senior guard hit three 3-pointers in the final 2:05, the last for the go-ahead points, and No. 4 Missouri scored the game's final 11 points to rally past No. 8 Kansas 74-71 in Game 1 of what could be the schools' final border showdown Saturday night.

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Parker's 42 power Spurs over Thunder (AP)
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Tony Parker wasn't playing for an All-Star invitation. He made a strong case just the same. Putting together his most dazzling game in three years -- and doing it against the NBA's hottest team, no less -- Parker scored 42 points and became the all-time franchise assists leader for the San Antonio Spurs in a 107-96 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night.

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Rodgers wins NFL MVP award in landslide (AP)
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Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers has won the 2011 Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player award in a landslide. Rodgers earned 48 votes to two for New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees in balloting by a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the NFL. The Packers star is the first Green Bay player honored since Brett Favre concluded a run of three straight seasons as MVP in 1997

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Boise St. beats TCU 17-10 in Fiesta Bowl (AP)
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Boise State pulled "Riddler" out of its bag of tricks. Presto: the Broncos stunned Texas Christian in a Fiesta Bowl duel of unbeaten BCS busters. After a gutsy fake punt at the Broncos' own 33-yard line, Doug Martin scored the decisive touchdown to give No. 6 Boise State a 17-10 victory over third-ranked TCU on Monday night.

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Redskins fire Zorn, meet with Shanahan (AP)
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The Washington Redskins moved quickly in their pursuit of Mike Shanahan on Monday, flying in the former Denver Broncos coach on the same day the team fired Jim Zorn. Shanahan and wife Peggy landed at Dulles International Airport near Redskins Park in mid-afternoon and were driven away in a limousine to meet with owner Dan Snyder and general manager Bruce Allen.

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Cushing named defensive rookie of year (AP)
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From the first practice in training camp until the last game, Brian Cushing was a tackling machine for the Houston Texans. That's exactly what the team sought when it chose the linebacker from Southern Cal 15th overall in the draft last April. What the Texans also got is The Associated Press 2009 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year.

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Charleston stuns No. 9 Tar Heels in OT (AP)
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Bobby Cremins isn't even sure how his College of Charleston team managed this upset. "Going on a 12-1 run with 4 minutes to go against North Carolina, usually that's lights out," Cremins said. "So I've got to watch the tape tonight to figure out what happened." North Carolina won't want to be reminded how it happened.

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Bills fire entire coaching staff (AP)
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The Buffalo Bills cleared the way for their next head coach, informing their entire coaching staff to start looking elsewhere for jobs. Interim head coach Perry Fewell was among those relieved of his duties on Monday, though the Bills said he is still a candidate and will be interviewed. Fewell is on a growing list of candidates likely to include former NFL head coaches Brian Billick, Marty...

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Pats moving on without injured WR Welker (AP)
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Wes Welker covered his head with a towel as he was carted off the field with his pants leg pulled above his left knee. It was the last look at the star receiver in a Patriots uniform for this season. His teammates and coach Bill Belichick were resigned to moving into the playoffs without him even before Welker underwent an MRI on the knee Monday.

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