NEW CASTLE — Grove City College sophomore Anthony Smaldino, a Butler native, shot an 81 to lead the Wolverines with a 10th place finish at the Westminster Invitational Monday at the New Castle Country Club.

Grove City College posted a 333 as a team, finishing 14 strokes behind first-place Thiel.

NEW WILMINGTON — Slippery Rock High School graduate and Westminster College senior men's soccer goalkeeper Tyler Little has been named Presidents' Athletic Conference Defensive Player/Goalkeeper of the Week.Little faced 23 shots and had seven saves in the Titans' 0-0 draw at nationally-ranked Carnegie Mellon Monday night.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers say they've acquired veteran defensive end Jared Allen from the Chicago Bears in exchange for a future late-round draft pick.The trade will become official once Allen passes a physical, team spokesman Steven Drummond told The Associated Press.FoxSports first reported the trade.The Panthers felt the move was necessary after their top pass rusher Charles Johnson went down with a hamstring injury in Sunday's 27-22 win over the New Orleans Saints.

WASHINGTON — Washington Nationals closer Jonathan Papelbon will miss the rest of the season after his dugout fight with teammate Bryce Harper — four games because of a team suspension for that episode and three games because he dropped his appeal of a Major League Baseball ban for throwing at an opponent's head last week.Nationals manager Matt Williams said Harper, a leading NL MVP contender, was held out of the starting lineup for Monday's home finale against Cincinnati for “his part in the altercation” with Papelbon on Sunday.Harper, though, said after Sunday's game that he was scheduled to be off Monday.

SEATTLE — The Seattle Mariners have found their new general manager, hiring former Angels GM Jerry Dipoto.Seattle announced Dipoto's hiring. He replaces Jack Zduriencik, who was fired in late August after seven disappointing seasons during which the club failed to end its playoff drought. With the Toronto Blue Jays making the postseason this year, the Mariners now have the longest playoff absence in baseball at 14 years and counting.Dipoto's job will be to end that playoff drought and continue rebuilding a farm system that had highs and lows during Zduriencik's tenure.

Las Vegas and Quebec City are moving closer in their bids to land an NHL franchise.A Bill Foley-led group and Montreal-based communications giant Quebecor are in the third and final stage of a process to potentially bring the world's top hockey league to Las Vegas and Quebec City, respectively.