KARNS CITY — The Karns City Roundball Club is holding its alumni basketball games Jan. 26 at the high school.

All male and female alumni from Karns City or East Brady are invited to play.

If interested, contact Chris Bellis at cbellis54@zoominternet.net for a registration form or stop by the school's athletic office.

The format of the games will depends upon the number of participants.

ZELIENOPLE — The Zelienople-Harmony Athletic Association will conduct its registration for the spring baseball and softball season (boys and girls ages 4 to 18) from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 17 and from 9 a.m. to 12 noon Jan. 19 and 26 at St. Gregory's Church in Zelienople.Players registering after Jan. 26 are not guaranteed a team.For more information, visit www.zhaa.org.

ZELIENOPLE — Tim Schoeffel of Evans City bowled a 300-game Friday at Freeway Lanes.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Alabama coach Nick Saban sent home two backup players from the BCS championship game for violating curfew.A person with knowledge of the decision said the players were freshman linebackers Dillon Lee and Ryan Anderson. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the school didn't release names.Lee played in eight games, mostly on kickoff coverage. Anderson didn't play this season.The second-ranked Crimson Tide will play No. 1 Notre Dame on Monday night.

NEW YORK — A federal mediator held over 12 hours of separate talks with the NHL and the players' association before stopping for the night with a promise to get going again in the morning.The sides remained apart all day, buffered by the presence of federal mediator Scot Beckenbaugh, who shuttled back and forth between the hotel where the union is working, and the league office. He started at 10 a.m. EST and wrapped up discussions for the day shortly before 11 p.m.Similar talks were scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.

NEW YORK — With the ink not even dry on the New York Jets’ dreadful season, Rex Ryan fled to the Bahamas only to be photographed lounging poolside, book in hand, with an interesting tattoo gracing his right biceps.It showed his wife, Michelle, wearing an unmistakably green Jets jersey emblazoned with the unmistakable No. 6 of embattled quarterback Mark Sanchez — and nothing else.