Butler graduate Rick Schontz, a senior defensive end on the Baldwin-Wallace College football team, has been named honorable mention Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference.

Schontz carries a 3.0 grade point average as a health and physical education major.

Seneca Valley graduate Candice Eyerman, a guard on the Waynesburg College women's basketball team, scored 15 points and grabbed five rebounds in a recent 74-52 victory over Mount Aloysius.Eyerman is averaging 13.7 points per game and leads the Presidents' Athletic Conference with 11 3-pointers.

TAMPA, Fla. - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers released struggling kicker Martin Gramatica Tuesday and replaced him with Arena Football League kicker Jay Taylor.The team's career scoring leader missed three field goals in Sunday's 21-14 loss at Carolina and was 11-for-19 overall this season. Gramatica missed seven of his last nine attempts and had not made a field goal over 22 yards since Oct. 10.

BOSTON - Boston College will play North Carolina in the Continental Tire Bowl on Dec. 30 in Charlotte, N.C.The Eagles would have gone to a Bowl Championship Series game with a win last Saturday against underdog Syracuse. A surprising 43-17 loss at home knocked the Eagles out of the BCS and the AP Top 25.Also:Florida State formally accepted its bid to play in the Gator Bowl on Jan. 1 against West Virginia.Georgia accepted a bid to play Wisconsin in the Outback Bowl on New Year's Day in Tampa, Fla.Boise State will play Louisville in the Liberty Bowl on Dec. 31.New Mexico will face Navy in the Emerald Bowl on Dec. 30.Connecticut accepted a bid to play in the Motor City Bowl on Dec. 27. It's the Huskies' first postseason appearance as a Division I-A team.Marshall was invited to the Fort Worth Bowl against Cincinnati on Dec. 23.Bowling Green will play Memphis in the GMAC Bowl on Dec. 22.Georgia Tech accepted an offer to play in Champs Sports Bowl on Dec. 21.Wyoming is headed to the Las Vegas Bowl on Dec. 22.

ATLANTA- The NBA will set new security guidelines for its arenas, exerting more authority over a matter previously left to individual teams, commissioner David Stern said Tuesday.Stern said the Nov. 19 Pacers-Pistons brawl that spilled into the stands and led to three Indiana players being suspended for 25 or more games - including the season-long penalty for Ron Artest - exposed current policies as inadequate.In his first public comments on the brawl since announcing the suspensions, Stern said the new guidelines will be issued in early January.