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SLIPPERY ROCK - Slippery Rock University junior distance runner Jenn Harpp was named a member of the PSAC Winter Top 10.

The PSAC Top 10 honors five male and five female athletes who distinguish themselves in the classroom and in competition. An athlete must carry a grade-point average above 3.25 to be eligible.

Harpp owns the school record in the 5,000 and the 3,000 meters. She also is a member of two record-setting relay units.

PITTSBURGH - Linebacker Larry Foote said he doesn't expect to be with the Pittsburgh Steelers much longer.Foote told a Pittsburgh newspaper that he wants to be a starting linebacker and wants to play for a team that will accommodate him. He says he can't grow on a team that also has 2007 first-round draft choice Lawrence Timmons.Foote says Steelers director of football operations Kevin Colbert told him Tuesday that the team was trying to trade him but would release him if that didn't work out.

NEW YORK - The New York Yankees slashed prices on more than 40 percent of the front-row seats at their new $1.5 billion ballpark by up to 50 percent and announced Tuesday that many of those who bought tickets closest to the field for $325-$2,500 will be eligible for additional free seats.While most of the cheaper tickets in the second and third decks were sold for the opening six games, entire sections of cushioned blue seats with teak arm rests in the first nine rows in 25 sections went empty, areas that cost $500 and up. Many of the non-premium seats between the bases, which cost $325 as part of season tickets and $375 individually, also went unfilled.

LAS VEGAS - Former UNLV basketball star Glen Gondrezick, who later played for the New York Knicks and Denver Nuggets before turning to broadcasting, has died. He was 53.School officials and close friend Bobby Gleason said Gondrezick died Monday at St. Rose Hospital in Henderson, Nev., after apparent complications from a heart transplant that he received last September.Gondrezick starred on the Rebels' Final Four team in 1977, and his jersey No. 25 was retired by the program in 1997. He ranks 16th on the school's career scoring list with 1,311 points, and his 831 rebounds rank ninth.

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