LLWS champions stripped of title

CHICAGO — A Little League team that captured the attention of the nation and the hearts of its hometown was stripped of its national title after an investigation revealed that team officials had falsified boundaries so they could add ineligible players to the roster.

Only last summer, the all-black Jackie Robinson West team was the toast of Chicago and was honored with trips to San Francisco and to the White House. But the sport’s governing body announced that team officials had engaged in a Little League version of political gerrymandering.

Instead of politicians redrawing district maps to pick up votes, it was local league officials who changed the boundaries that determined where players must live. And after learning that their scheme had been exposed, they scrambled to persuade surrounding leagues to go along with what they had done.

Kiffin not returning to Cowboys’ staff

IRVING, Texas — Monte Kiffin won’t return to the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff a year after he was demoted from the defensive coordinator job.

A person with knowledge of the decision said that Kiffin, the assistant head coach under Jason Garrett last season, wouldn’t return.

Kiffin, who turns 75 later this month, wasn’t under contract for next season. He came in as defensive coordinator in 2013 to implement a scheme change to a four-man front.