SLIPPERY ROCK — The Slippery Rock University men’s cross country team finished second while the women placed third in their competition at the Mack Cooper Invitational Saturday.

Shippensburg won the men’s title with 25 points. SRU had 70 points. Rock freshman Jeremy Parsons placed third overall with a time of 25 minutes, 53 seconds. California’s Aaron Dinzeo broke the 8,,000-meter course record at Cooper’s Lake by running a 24:45.

Shippensburg won the women’s title with 43 points. Lock Haven claimed second with 43, SRU third with 100. Jenny Picot paced The Rock with a third-place finishing time of 23:00 on the 6,000-meter course.

PHOENIX — The Arizona Diamondbacks hired Oakland Athletics bench coach Chip Hale as their next manager on Monday.The 49-year-old Hale will replace Kirk Gibson, who was fired with three games left in a disappointing 2014 season in which Arizona finished with the worst record in baseball.Hale managed in Arizona's minor league system for six seasons and was the Diamondbacks' third base coach from 2007-09..

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Buffalo Bills General Manager Doug Whaley granted the agent for wide receiver Mike Williams permission to seek a trade.Whaley said Monday that Williams' agent, Hadley Englehard, asked to gauge interest from other teams in a possible trade. But Whaley says the Bills aren't actively pursuing a trade.Williams was inactive for Sunday's 37-22 loss to the New England Patriots. Williams started the Bills' first four games.

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State has suspended seven players — including two starters — for this week's game against Louisville after what the school says was a BB gun incident.Coach Dave Doeren announced the suspensions Monday and said the players were playing a game with the BB guns at an off-campus residence.Among the suspended players are linebacker Jerod Fernandez and safety Josh Jones — both of whom started the 30-14 home loss to Boston College on Saturday.

LAS VEGAS — Former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks is in a Las Vegas hospital after a second operation for abdominal problems.The 61-year-old boxer who catapulted to fame by beating Muhammad Ali in 1978 had the second surgery in recent days after complications from the first emergency surgery.His wife said “it's going to be a long road ahead, but he's strong and he's starting to recover.”