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The three surviving Butler County area football teams will be in action Friday and Saturday:

n Moniteau (11-0) will battle Oliver (3-7) in the play-in round of the PIAA Class AA playoffs at 7 p.m. Friday at Cupples Stadium in Pittsburgh.

n Grove City (10-0) will clash with Cathedral Prep (9-2) in the District 10 Class AAA final at 7 p.m. Friday at Erie Stadium.

n Knoch (12-0) will take on Montour (10-2) in the WPIAL Class AAA championship game at 2 p.m. Saturday at Heinz Field.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Urban Meyer isn't interested in answering questions about Ohio State.Meyer declined comment to The Associated Press on Saturday morning, then said he hasn't been offered or accepted any job during ESPN's broadcast of the Nebraska-Michigan game.Former Buckeye Chris Spielman is well aware of the building speculation that Meyer will end up leading Ohio State, but said it is just a rumor at this point.“We were in Bible study last night, he and I were, and it was news to us,” Spielman told The AP before he and Meyer worked as ESPN analysts in Ann Arbor. “There's no deal.”

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Saying his job right now is to “keep this ship going,” Penn State's acting athletic director said Saturday that he and the university are formulating a plan to search for a permanent head football coach.Speaking in the press box at Ohio Stadium just before the start of Saturday's game between the No. 21 Nittany Lions and Ohio State, David Joyner said he will be the primary person to design the search but will consult with the university's new president, Rod Erickson.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Federal investigators said Saturday that weather likely wasn't a factor in the plane crash that killed two Oklahoma State women's basketball coaches this week in Arkansas.National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jason Aguilar said the weather was calm Thursday when the small plane carrying head coach Kurt Budke and assistant Miranda Serna crashed into a wooded hillside. Aguilar said NTSB investigators were at the crash site for most of the day Saturday.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A driver of a U-Haul truck carrying beer kegs through a tailgating area before the Yale-Harvard game Saturday suddenly accelerated, fatally striking a 30-year-old Massachusetts woman and injuring two other women, police said.It's not clear why the driver sped up, New Haven Police spokesman David Hartman said. The truck then crashed into other U-Haul vans in the lot, an open playing field used for pre-game tailgating parties before Yale home games in New Haven.Tim Walker of Pawtucket, R.I., said he was grilling sirloin tips when he heard the crash behind him. He turned and saw two people lying on the ground.People huddled around them trying to help, according to a video that appears to have been recorded shortly after the accident and posted online. “We're not getting a pulse,” said someone crouched near one victim, while the cameraman notes the ambulance hasn't arrived.From staff and wire reports<I></I>

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