IN BRIEF
LOCK HAVEN — Slippery Rock University men's soccer player Jeremy Deighton and women's cross country runner Jen Harpp are among the PSAC's Fall 2009 Top 10 Award recipients.
Top 10 honorees must have achieved a minimum 3.50 grade-point average while excelling in their respective sports.
Deighton carries a 3.69 GPA as a marketing major and led the conference in men's soccer scoring.
Harpp carries a 3.93 GPA as a science major and placed 11th at the NCAA Division II national championships.
PITTSBURGH — Pitt offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti Jr. says he's not looking to leave the school after only one season.Cignetti, credited with upgrading Pitt's offense during a 10-3 season, said in a statement issued by the school Thursday night that he isn't considering an NFL coordinator's job or a comparable position at a different Top 25 school.Under Cignetti, Pitt senior quarterback Bill Stull had by far his best season at the school and freshman Dion Lewis was a second-team All-American running back.Cignetti, a Pittsburgh-area native, was the offensive coordinator at Cal before replacing Matt Cavanaugh at Pitt last year. His father, Frank, succeeded Bobby Bowden as West Virginia's coach in 1976.
TEMPE, Ariz. — Kurt Warner was set to end all the speculation today with a news conference to announce whether he is calling an end to his stirring NFL career.Most indications pointed toward Warner leaving the game after a dozen years in a league that at first rejected him, then revered him in a storybook run with the St. Louis Rams.Written off as a has-been, he rose again to lead the long-suffering Arizona Cardinals to the Super Bowl a year ago.Warner has a season left on the two-year, $23 million deal he signed with Arizona but he has insisted money would not be a factor in his decision.
SAN DIEGO — Scott Piercy's name is atop the leaderboard at Torrey Pines after an 8-under 64 Thursday on the North Course. The best round might have belonged to Robert Allenby.Allenby, who has two wins and a runner-up finish in his last three starts, had a bogey-free 67 on a course built for the U.S. Open, making him the only player among the top 15 at the Farmers Insurance Open to play the South Course.