CANTON, Ohio — As fans scramble to obtain tickets to Saturday's Michigan-Ohio State football game, a Columbus couple are auctioning off their seats on the Internet to raise money to adopt a boy from Guatemala.

Ken and Kristie Sigler have season tickets in the closed end of Ohio Stadium, about 10 rows from the field. They have put the two tickets up for sale on eBay, hoping the payout helps defray the $12,500 cost to begin processing their adoption paperwork.

They set the minimum bid at $1,000, with an option to purchase the tickets directly for $1,500. No bids had been made as of early today.

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco abandoned its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics Monday after plans for a new bayfront stadium collapsed when the San Francisco 49ers said they intend to move to Silicon Valley.Los Angeles and Chicago are now the remaining U.S. candidates to hold the games following the announcement by the San Francisco 2016 Bid Committee.Scott Givens, managing director and chief executive officer of the bid committee, said the 49ers' decision created a "perceptual gap" that hurt the city's reputation in the eyes of the Olympic committee.

NEW YORK — Hanley Ramirez of the Florida Marlins won a tight race for NL Rookie of the Year Monday, and Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander took home the AL award.Ramirez beat out Washington Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman by four points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America — the closest NL vote since the current format was adopted 26 years ago. The shortstop got 14 of 30 first-place votes and finished with 105 points. Zimmerman received 10 first-place votes and totaled 101 points.Verlander was listed first on 26 of 28 ballots for a total of 133 points.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Former NFL coach Butch Davis will return to the sidelines as coach at North Carolina, which is 1-9 and hasn't beaten a Division I-A team.He will replace the fired John Bunting, the school said Monday.Davis, who will turn 55 on Friday, coached the Miami Hurricanes from 1995-2000, compiling a 51-20 record before leaving for the NFL's Cleveland Browns.