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Butler graduate Taylor Troyan helped Penn State Behrend women’s soccer earn two shutout wins at the Drew Tournament last weekend to earn Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference defensive honors.
Trojan made seven saves in the first three games for the Lions (2-1).
Buffalo Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula bid an NFL-record $1.4 billion to get the Buffalo Bills and keep them in western New York.A person with direct knowledge of the sale process confirmed the winning bid to The Associated Press on Tuesday, hours after late owner Ralph Wilson's estate announced reaching a “definitive agreement” to sell the team to the Pegulas. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the sale was conducted privately.Sports Business Journal first reported the Pegulas' bid earlier in the day.The price eclipses the previous high of $1.1 billion set in 2009, when Stephen Ross completed his purchase of the Miami Dolphins in a deal that also included the team's stadium.The person said the Pegulas went well above the Bills' estimated value of $935 million to show Wilson's estate how serious they were in their desire to buy the team.
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball sent a memo to teams and umpires clarifying this year's experimental rule intended to limit collisions at home plate, saying runners should not be called safe if the ball clearly beats them.The rule, announced in February, says a catcher can't block the plate if he doesn't have the ball. There have been several disputed calls, including a pair of decisions in the last 5 1/2 weeks that led to runners being called safe after video review.The guidelines sent to teams Tuesday say the catcher's positioning shouldn't change the call when the throw clearly arrives ahead of the runner.
Bob Suter, a member of the “Miracle On Ice” team that won the Olympic gold medal in 1980 and the father of Minnesota Wild star Ryan Suter, died Tuesday at the age of 57.Suter died suddenly in his hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, and is the first player from the famed 1980 Olympic men's hockey team that upset the Soviet Union and beat Finland for the gold medal to pass away.Suter did scouting work for the Wild and was a pillar of the youth hockey community.
NEW YORK — A former minor league hockey player was arrested Tuesday on charges he sold illegally obtained prescription painkillers to former hockey player Derek Boogaard before Boogaard died in 2011 of an accidental overdose.Jordan Hart, 31, of Huntington, New York, was arrested on charges contained in a federal indictment unsealed in New York. Also arrested was a physician's assistant, Oscar Johnson, 59, whose Utah-based employer provided medical services to hockey players.
