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CENTER TWP — The new-look No. 96 Modified car owned by Mike Turner of Butler was voted Best in Show last weekend at the Lernerville Car Show held at the Clearview Mall.

Voting was done by a select panel of track officials and media members.

There were more than 40 race cars on display. Dirt track racing begins April 20 at Lernerville Speedway.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Slippery Rock University assistant track and field coach Bill Jordan has been named fitness director for referees in the Confederation of North, Central American and Carribean Association Football (CONCACAF) Olympic men's soccer qualifying tournament.The event runs from March 22 through April 2.Jordan will travel to Los Angeles for the final round of Olympic qualifying March 22-27 before traveling to Kansas City for the semifinals and finals.A Grove City native, Jordan has tutored 119 All-PSAC performers, 19 PSAC champions, 13 All-Americans and 2011 national high jump champion Whitney Hendershot.

NEW YORK — The players' union wants the NFL to delay announcing any punishment to the New Orleans Saints for their bounty program until it can conduct its own investigation.NFLPA spokesman George Atallah tells The Associated Press on Tuesday that “We asked the league to hold off on any punishment until our information gathering was completed.”

LOS ANGELES — Coming off what he calls the most disappointing season of his coaching career, Ben Howland said Tuesday that he's intent on changing the culture of the once-storied UCLA basketball program, which staggered through a year that included an NCAA snub and the dismissal of standout player Reeves Nelson.

NEW YORK — A person familiar with the decision tells The Associated Press that the $46 million in total salary cap reductions for the Redskins and Cowboys will go to other teams.

DENVER — Two Denver Broncos players are suing the NFL to overturn their drug suspensions, saying the league violated protocol in collecting urine samples from linebacker D.J. Williams and defensive lineman Ryan McBean, and then refused to clear the players even after the collector was fired.

NOME, Alaska — Dallas Seavey won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Tuesday, becoming the youngest musher to win the nearly 1,000 mile race across Alaska.Seavey, who turned 25 on March 4, the day the race officially started north of Anchorage, was the first musher to reach Nome, coming into to the Bering Sea coastal community at 7:29 p.m. Tuesday.

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