ORLANDO, Fla. - Nick Saban finally turned pro Saturday, accepting an offer to coach the Miami Dolphins.

The LSU coach, courted repeatedly by the NFL in recent years, mulled over the deal for three days before announcing his decision shortly after the Tigers arrived in Orlando for their Jan. 1 bowl game against Iowa.

Saban will coach LSU in the game before taking over a long-proud Dolphins franchise enduring its worst season since the 1960s. He becomes the sixth coach in team history, and the fourth since Wayne Huizenga took over as owner in 1994.

TAMPA, Fla. - Vanderbilt running back Kwane Doster was shot to death early Sunday when someone fired at the parked car he was in, police said.Doster, 21, of Tampa, died at Tampa General Hospital after being shot near the Ybor City nightlife district, police spokesman Joe Durkin said. Detectives were trying to find the killer and determine a motive.

NEW YORK - Shaq vs. Kobe drew the highest rating in six years for a regular-season NBA game.The overnight rating for the Miami Heat's 104-102 overtime victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on ABC on Christmas Day was 8.0. That was the highest since February 1998, when Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls against the Lakers on NBC.Saturday's game featured Shaquille O'Neal's much-ballyhooed first game against the Lakers since being traded to the Heat last summer. O'Neal and Kobe Bryant were teammates for eight chaotic seasons with the Lakers. Despite their tense relationship, the Lakers won three championships and reached the NBA Finals a fourth time during their last five years together.

BERWICK, Pa. - Berwick is one of the most football-crazed towns in Pennsylvania, and for good reason. The Bulldogs own six state championships, won the top spot in USA Today's national rankings a decade ago and even once merited a visit from ABC's "Nightline."Which is why fans might be surprised to learn that Berwick is struggling to come up with the money to recondition its players' football equipment.The school board cut 20 percent from sports programs this year as it coped with a $5 million budget deficit, and in June, angry taxpayers challenged a $26,961 bill for equipment reconditioning.Nevertheless, Superintendent James Kraky said the reconditioning work must still be done. Otherwise, some of the equipment will get moldy and cost even more to fix or replace."And you can't not recondition the helmets" because they are checked for safety, said Kraky, who said he cracked two helmets when he was a high school football player.But school board member Dann McGann said the football program routinely overspends its budget. McGann said that while the reconditioning should be done, he questioned the need to recondition 170 helmets when only 140 students are involved with the football team.