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RFK selected to host Gold Cupmatches
RFK Stadiumhas been
selected to host two quarterfinal matches in the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the regional championship for national teams fromNorth and Central America and the Caribbean. Thematches inWashington
will take place as a doubleheader on June 19, a Sunday. No other games in the 12-nation, biennial tournament will be played at
RFK.Mexico is the defending champion. The 2011 winner will earn a berth in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil. In 2009, a first- round doubleheader was held in Washington, including a 2-0 U.S. victory overHonduras. Gold Cup participants in 2011 are the United States,Mexico,
Canada, Jamaica, Cuba, Grenada, Guadeloupe and five Central American teams to be determined nextmonth. First-round sites are Cowboys
Stadium(Arlington, Tex.), which will host the June 5 openers; Home Depot Center (Carson, Calif.), Ford Field (Detroit), Bank of America Stadium(Charlotte), FIU Stadium(Miami), Raymond James Stadium(Tampa), Soldier Field (Chicago), Red Bull Arena (Harrison, N.J.) and KC Soccer Stadium(Kansas City, Kan.). The groups and first-roundmatches will be determined in early February. Washington and the New
Meadowlands Stadiumin New Jersey will host the quarterfinal doubleheaders. Both semifinals will be played at Reliant StadiuminHouston and the championship is set for the Rose Bowl on June 25.
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Hot Topic Terrapins football Franklin expected to leave
Coordinator on verge of top job at Vanderbilt; has offered positions to 4 U-Md. assistants
BY ERIC PRISBELL AND STEVE YANDA
JamesFranklin,Maryland’s offensive
coordinator andheadcoach-in-waiting, is expectedto becomeVanderbilt’snexthead football coach, a source close toFranklin withknowledge of thedetails of the offer saidThursday. As ofThursday evening,Franklinhadyet
to signthe contract, the source said, buthe was expectedto travel toVanderbilt on Friday. JohnIngram, aVanderbiltBoardof Trust andsearchcommitteemember, told theNashvilleTennessean, “We’re about to have this allwrappedup.” Franklinhas offeredpositions onhis
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Vanderbilt coaching staff to fourMaryland assistants—nonehas yetdecidedwhether to accept—according to a sourcewith direct knowledge of the
offers.CoachRalph Friedgen,whohas beenonthe road recruiting,has calleda staffmeeting for Fridaymorning. JohnDonovan,Maryland’s running backs coach, is themost likely candidate to assume offensive coordinator duties inMaryland’s game againstEast Carolina intheMilitaryBowl onDec. 29. IfFranklin, 38,hadremainedat
Maryland,hewouldhave received$1 millionifnotnamedMaryland’sheadcoach by January
2012.Thedeparture ofFranklin, whohadbeennamedheadcoach-in- waiting inFebruary 2009, leavesMaryland facing several questionsduring an importantwinter for theprogramandfor first-yearAthleticDirectorKevinAnderson. Friedgen, 63,willnowget a strong sense
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Ryan Lochte set the first swimming world record since high-tech body suits were banned, winning a 400-meter individual medley. COLLEGES
BCS executive director doubts Cuban’s plan Bill Hancock, the executive di-
rector of theBowlChampionship Series, said Thursday that he doubts “financial inducements,” such as the oneDallasMavericks owner Mark Cuban is consider- ing, will lead to a major college footballplayoff. Cuban told
ESPNDallas.com
on Wednesday that he was “ac- tively interested but in the ex- ploratorystage”of tryingtobank- roll a 12- or 16-team playoff to replace the controversialBCS. HancockrespondedtoCuban’s
comments in an e-mail to the Associated Press, saying, “Given how much support our current system has among university presidents, athletics directors, coaches and athletes, I don’t think any amount of financial inducement will make people abandon” theBCS. Cuban said he has spoken to
two athletic directors from con- ferenceswithautomaticBCSbids who were enthusiastic about his idea.He intends to contact sever- al school presidents and state senators to determine whether the idea isworthpursuing. . . . No. 3Kansas suspended guard
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Mario Little indefinitely after he was arrested on charges of bat- tery, criminal damage and crimi- nal trespassing following a fight with his girlfriend and others. Coach Bill Self announced the suspension of the 6-foot-6 guard, who apologized and said he felt “awful” about the incident. Little
was arrested on four counts of battery, two counts of criminal damage to property and one count of criminal trespassing.He posted $700 bond and was re- leasedThursdaymorning. . . . Tulsa Athletic Director Bubba
Cunninghamhas agreed to a con- tract extension, bringing an ap- parent end to his courtship to take the same job atKansas. . . . Bill Stewart is being slowly
forcedout asWestVirginia’s foot- ball coach because Athletic Di- rector Oliver Luck believes the Mountaineers had become an al- so-ran instead of a national pow- er. Luckmade the comments at a news conference to address the hiring of Oklahoma State’s Dana Holgorsen as West Virginia’s headcoachin-waiting, scheduled to replace Stewart prior to the 2012 season. . . . LSU will take away two foot-
ball scholarships and limit re- cruiting visits inhopes theNCAA willaccept theself-imposeddisci- pline as its mandated punish- ment for rules violations discov- eredby the school in2009. . . . Virginia junior cornerback
Chase Minnifield recently sub- mitted paperwork to an NFL draft advisory board to evaluate his potential draft status,Minni- field’s father said, adding that in all likelihood his son will return toVirginianext fall.
BASEBALL Magglio Ordonez and the De-
troit Tigers agreed to a $10 mil- lion, one-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told the AP. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal hadn’t been an- nounced, said the deal first re- ported by
SI.comincludes poten- tial awardbonuses. . . . The Boston Red Sox have
signed right-handed reliever Matt Albers to a one-year con- tract while also working out a deal with former Chicago White Sox closerBobby Jenks. Jenks’s deal was first reported
byESPNandconfirmedtotheAP byapersonfamiliarwithnegotia- tions, speaking on condition of anonymity because the deal was not yet final. Boston also sent Eric Patter-
son to the San Diego Padres to complete the trade for first base- manAdrianGonzalez. . . . KerryWood is returning to the
Chicago Cubs, agreeing to a one- year, $1.5million contract, a per- son familiar with the negotia- tions told the Associated Press. Thepersonspoke onconditionof anonymity because the agree- ment had not yet been an- nounced. . . . Edwin Encarnacion and the
Blue Jays have agreed to a one- year, $2.5 million contract that will keep the infielder in Toronto next season. The deal includes a $3.5millionclub optionfor 2012.
PROBASKETBALL Chicago Bulls center Joakim
Noahwillmissthenexteight to10 weeks after having surgery to re- pair a torn ligament in his right
ofhis job security fromAnderson,who announcedonNov. 18 only thatFriedgen wouldreturnfor an11thseasonin2011, the final year ofhis
contract.Friedgenhas repeatedly saidthathehopes to coach beyond2011, andhehas beentellinghigh schoolprospects thatheplans to coachfor themajority of their college careers.
DOUG KAPUSTIN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
James Franklin is expected to visitVanderbilt on Friday to iron out his contract. Acontract extensionisnot guaranteed,
evenwithFriedgenwinninghis secondACC Coachof theYearAwardafter orchestrating the second-biggest turnaroundinthe country
in2010.Attendance concerns— seasonticket saleshavedeclinedfive straight years—have beenwellpublicized andAndersonhas saidonly thathewould discuss theprogram’s futurewithFriedgen after the season. There are ramifications ifFriedgen
entersnext seasonas a lame-duck coach. Hiring anoutside candidate to replace Franklin—ifFriedgenopts against promoting fromwithin— andassembling a respectable recruiting classnext season couldbedifficult ifhe isnot guaranteedto returnin2012. It remains to be seenwhether there is
immediate recruiting fallout fromFranklin
leavingMaryland.Franklinwas viewedas Maryland’smost valuedrecruiter andhad strong, longstanding relationshipswith many localhighschool
coaches.Before February’s signingday,highschool prospects give onlynon-binding oral
commitments to schools. Franklinhadtwo in-personinterviews
withVanderbilt officials andemergedas one of two finalists—alongwithStanford offensive coordinatorGregRoman— beforeVanderbiltmade a long-shot attempt to landAuburnoffensive coordinatorGus Malzahn,whowithdrewfromnegotiations onMonday. Contractnegotiations between
representatives ofVanderbilt andFranklin’s agent,NeilCornrich, slowedby themiddle of theweek, the sourcewithknowledge of thedetails of the offer said.ButFranklin made clear toVanderbilt thathewants the job, the source added. Whenreachedby aNashvilleTennessean
reporter onhis cellphoneThursday evening,Franklinwas askedabouthis departure toVanderbilt being adonedeal andsaid: “Idon’t knowwhere youcould have gottenthat information. Ihope to meet youat somepoint, but Ihavenothing to confirmfor youat thispoint.”
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thumb. . . . Yao Ming has a stress fracture
in his left ankle and theHouston Rockets saidthereisnotimetable for the return of the 7-foot-6 cen- ter.Yaohasbeenout sinceNov. 10 withwhathadbeencalleda bone bruise inthe same
ankle.AnMRI exam performed Thursday re- vealedthe stress fracture. . . . Boston Celtics point guardRa-
jon Rondo will miss a couple of weeks with a sprained left ankle suffered Wednesday, General Manager Danny Ainge said. Celt- ics spokesman Jeff Twiss clari- fiedthatno official timetablehad beenset.
MISC. American standout Ryan
Lochte set the first individual swimming world record since high-tech bodysuits were banned, winning the 400-meter individual medley at the short- course world championships in Dubai,UnitedArabEmirates. Lochte finished the race in 3
minutes 55.50seconds, smashing the previous record set by Laszlo Cseh of Hungary a year ago by nearly two seconds. . . . A Las Vegas judge has issued
anoutstandingarrestwarrant for boxer FloydMayweather Jr. on a misdemeanor battery complaint alleging he poked a security guard in the face several times during a Nov. 15 confrontation overparkingticketsoutsideMay- weather’s home. The warrant re- quires Mayweather to turn him- self inor face arrest at any time. —Fromnews services and staff reports
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