SLIPPERY ROCK — The Slippery Rock University football team is ninth in the initial Super Region One rankings released this week.

The top six teams in the final regional rankings will earn a berth in the NCAA Division II playoffs.

SRU (6-2) hosts Edinboro at 1 p.m. Saturday.

WASHINGTON — Mississippi State, Florida State, Auburn and Mississippi are the top four teams in the first College Football Playoff rankings.The first of seven Top 25 rankings done by a 12-member selection committee was released Tuesday night. The selection committee will pick the four teams to play in the national semifinals and set the matchups for other four marquee New Year's Day bowls that are part of the playoff rotation.Oregon was fifth and Alabama was sixth.The final rankings will be released Dec. 7, the day after the most of the conference championships are decided.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Golden State Warriors co-owner Peter Guber wrote to team employees to say that he regrets if anybody was offended by his unintentional use of “hoodish” in an email.Yahoo Sports reported late Monday night that Guber listed “hoodish” as one of the languages he planned to learn as he replied to a team email praising the franchise for having five international players on this season's roster. Guber, who is Jewish, responded later that he intended to type Yiddish.