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    NFL / Football  

    Posted on Wed, May. 07, 2008 10:15 PM

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Carmelo Anthony
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    Giants ink Diehl

    Offensive tackle David Diehl (left below) signed a two-year extension with the New York Giants that will keep him under contract with the Super Bowl champions through the 2013 season.

    Diehl, who had four years left on an extension he signed in 2005, will earn $31 million under terms of the new deal.

    •The Colts have put their tag-team runners — Joseph Addai and Dominic Rhodes — back together after Rhodes agreed on a one-year deal to return to the Colts.

    •The Raiders signed free-agent linebacker Edgerton Hartwell, hoping he can revive a career beset by injuries in recent seasons.

    KU adds assistant

    Kansas women’s basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson has added former UConn standout Tamika Raymond to her staff.

    Raymond, 28, played for the Huskies’ national championship teams in 2000 and 2002. She is currently playing for the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun after spending her previous six professional seasons with Minnesota. Raymond has been an assistant coach the last five seasons for Ohio State.

    Quick hits

    •Kansas’ Ryan Cantrell and Kansas State’s Jordan Bedore were named Wednesday to the Rimington Trophy spring watch list. The award is presented annually to the top football center in the country. Forty-two players are on the list.

    •The heavyweight title fight between WBA champion Ruslan Chagaev of Uzbekistan and Nikolai Valuev of Russia has been rescheduled for July 5.

    Rafael Nadal lost for only the second time in his last 105 matches on clay, falling to Juan Carlos Ferrero 7-5, 6-1 in the Rome Masters.

    •Argentina remained No. 1 in the largely unchanged FIFA world rankings Wednesday, with the United States at No. 21.

    •Seattle Storm center Janell Burse, runner-up for the WNBA’s Most Improved Player award in 2006, will miss this season because of multiple injuries.

    Dawn Staley, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, will leave Temple to become the women’s basketball coach at South Carolina.

    School in trouble

    The NCAA has accused Alabama State of 23 rules violations, alleging widespread use of ineligible players, grade changes and recruiting misdeeds and charging the school with lack of institutional control. The NCAA’s notice of allegations gave the university until June 27 to respond and culminated a nearly five-year investigation.

    Police blotter

    •Nets forward Richard Jefferson was charged with assault Wednesday for grabbing another man by the throat in a Minneapolis club earlier this year.

    •Nuggets All-Star Carmelo Anthony has been ticketed for speeding, three weeks after he was cited on a charge of driving under the influence.

    Garrett Reid, a son of Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid, is heading to state prison after admitting he smuggled narcotics into his Montgomery County, Pa., jail cell.

    •Former Georgia Tech quarterback Joe Hamilton has stepped down as quarterbacks coach at his alma mater after he was slapped with drug and alcohol charges.

    | Star News Services

     

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