SRU football gets No. 9 rankingSLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University's football team is ranked No. 9 in Sporting News' preseason Division II football poll.Rock defensive end Marcus Martin and center Joe LoSchiavo are listed as preseason All-Americans by the magazine.SRU opens the 2016 season at home Sept. 3 against New Haven. Kickoff is at 1 p.m.

Atlanta, Miami, L.A. get Super BowlCHARLOTTE, N.C. — The NFL awarded Super Bowls to Atlanta, Miami and Los Angeles, three cities that made significant financial investments in new stadiums or recently upgraded an existing one.Atlanta will host the game in 2019, followed by Miami (2020) and Los Angeles (2021), it was announced at the NFL owners meetings.Atlanta will host its third Super Bowl, but the first at its new $1.4 billion stadium which opens in 2017. The previous two were at the Georgia Dome.Miami will have its record-setting 11th Super Bowl following a $450 million stadium renovation.

Nyquist pulled from Belmont fieldNEW YORK — The trainer of Nyquist says the Kentucky Derby winner is sick and won’t run in the Belmont Stakes on June 11.Doug O’Neill said Tuesday that Nyquist is “out because of sickness.”Nyquist’s bid for a chance at the Triple Crown ended when he finished third behind Exaggerator in the Preakness at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday.O’Neill’s assistant Jack Sisterson said from Baltimore that the colt’s blood work came back and showed an elevated white blood cell count. He said “we just want to do right by him and get him to 100 percent.”When he’s healthy again, the plan is to ship him back to California, with a summer schedule that could include the Travers Stakes at Saratoga.In 2012, O’Neill’s Derby and Preakness winner I’ll Have another was retired the day before the Belmont with a tendon injury and missed a Triple Crown chance.