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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Todd Haley was hired Friday as coach of the Kansas City Chiefs after helping the Arizona Cardinals reach the Super Bowl.

Haley was the offensive coordinator of the Cardinals. He joins a team that went a franchise-worst 2-14 under coach Herm Edwards, who was fired Jan. 23. Edwards lost all but two of his last 25 games and launched a rebuilding project that made the Chiefs the league's youngest team this season.

BALTIMORE — Michael Phelps said Friday it's fair for USA Swimming to suspend him for three months, the latest fallout from a photograph showing the Olympic great inhaling from a marijuana pipe.Phelps wasn't sure how the negative publicity might influence his decision to compete in the 2012 London Olympics.

NEW YORK — LeBron James lost his latest triple-double when the NBA determined that one of his rebounds should have been credited to Cleveland teammate Ben Wallace.James scored a season-high 52 points and had 11 assists Wednesday in the Cavaliers' 107-102 victory at New York. He was believed to have a triple-double when he grabbed what went down as a 10th rebound with under 2 seconds left.However, the league reviewed the game and ruled Friday that a rebound given to James with 39.3 seconds remaining should have been credited to Wallace. The corrected statistics now have James with nine rebounds and Wallace with two.

DALLAS — The Dallas Stars and New York Rangers would not comment on a report that the Rangers have had front-office talks about the possibility of bringing back suspended Stars forward Sean Avery.The New York Post said Friday that Rangers general manager Glen Sather was expected to speak to Stars co-GM Les Jackson about a timetable under which Dallas would place Avery — who left the Rangers in the offseason to sign with the Stars — on waivers.

CORAOPOLIS — Local champions Alyssa Eyth and Cade Negley (ages 8-and-9 division), Jordan West and Logan Bergbigler (10-11) and Emily Eyth and Adam Schaffner (12-13) represented the Butler Elks in the district Hoop Shoot foul-shooting contest at Moon High last weekend.Negley won his division in the shootoff and will advance to the state contest March 7 in State College.Alyssa Eyth finished in second place and Bergbigler third in their respective divisions.

MORGANTOWN, W. Va — Seneca Valley graduate Don Barclay, a redshirt freshman offensive lineman at West Virginia University, has made the Big East All-Academic football team.Barclay, a business and economics major, is one of 13 Mountaineers to make the team.