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PITTSBURGH — Karns City High graduate Ashley Campbell and Butler graduate Katresa Savisky were two of five Point Park University women's basketball players named Daktronics-NAIA Division II Women's Basketball Scholar-Athletes.

Campbell earned a 3.57 GPA in accounting while Savisky had a 3.97 GPA in psychology.

Anna-Maria Boshkova, Anna Shaw and Ja'Nia McPhatter also earned the honor.

Point Park (29-5) tied the team record for most players named to the team. Southwestern (Kan.) had the most in the nation with seven players.

NEW YORK — Baseball players and management hope to reach a new drug agreement this week that would increase initial penalties for muscle-building steroids and decrease suspensions for some positive tests caused by unintentional use, people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.For future suspensions, the deal also would eliminate the loophole allowing Alex Rodriguez to earn almost $4 million during his season-long ban.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Navy football player Will McKamey, who has been hospitalized since collapsing at practice three days ago, has died while in a coma. He was 19.The academy says the freshman running back from Knoxville, Tenn., died at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore on Tuesday with his family by his side.

The Atlantic Coast Conference is taking its men's basketball tournament from Tobacco Road to the bright lights of New York.The league has completed a two-year deal to bring the tournament to Brooklyn's Barclays Center starting in 2017.The Atlantic 10 was scheduled to play its tournament there through 2017, but will move in exchange for playing an ACC/A-10 doubleheader at Barclays inthe 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons.

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