College football

Combs to play for UCLA

Defensive back Justin Combs, the 18-year-old son of hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, will attend UCLA on a $54,000 football scholarship.

It is one of 285 athletic scholarships UCLA hands out each year. It comes at a time when student fees are rising and a year after the university had to use more than $2 million in student fees to cover an athletic-department funding gap.

Money for Combs' scholarship will not affect need-based scholarships awarded by the university, UCLA spokesman Ricardo Vazquez told the Los Angeles Times.

The senior Combs is worth an estimated $475 million and gave his son a $360,000 Maybach car for his 16th birthday, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The newspaper said Justin Combs defended taking the scholarship on Twitter: "Regardless what the circumstances are, I put that work in!!!! ... PERIOD."

Justin Combs graduated from New Rochelle Iona Prep in New York with a 3.75 grade-point average. He also had scholarship offers from Illinois, Virginia and Wyoming.

Jim Mora, ex-Seahawks coach and Washington Huskies player, was named UCLA's coach in December.

Sandusky seeks trial delay

Defense lawyers in Jerry Sandusky's child sex-abuse trial asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for a delay, quickly appealing a same-day rejection from a lower court ahead of Tuesday's scheduled start date.

Ex-Penn State assistant coach Sandusky, 68, faces 52 criminal counts for the alleged abuse of 10 boys over a 15-year span, allegations he denies.

McGloin to start for Penn St.

Penn State coach Bill O'Brien named senior Matt McGloin the starting quarterback.

NFL

Giants, Umenyiora have deal

The Super Bowl-champion New York Giants and Osi Umenyiora, 30, agreed on a restructured contract, ending a dispute that put the defensive end at odds with general manager Jerry Reese.

A source told the New York Post that Umenyiora will make about $7 million — as opposed to $4.7 million under the previous deal — and be a free agent after the season.

Hasselbeck, Locker compete

Tennessee Titans coach Mike Munchak said ex-Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, 36, and former UW Huskies quarterback Jake Locker, 23, will split snaps 50-50 as they compete for the starting job.

"The advice I give to guys over the years is you're not really competing with the guys at your position," Hasselbeck said. "It's probably a faulty view of things. At this level, you're competing with everyone in the world they could find to replace you with whether they're here yet or not, and you know I almost learned that lesson the hard way this offseason (when the Titans pursued Peyton Manning, who signed with Denver). That's just reality."

Source: Bounty ledger exists

Documents gathered in the league's bounty investigation of the New Orleans Saints include a ledger detailing payments for plays such as $1,000 for "cart-offs," or hits that left opponents needing help to the sideline, according to reports from The Associated Press and Yahoo Sports.

Elsewhere

• Boston goaltender Tim Thomas, 38, the playoff MVP while leading the Bruins to the Stanley Cup last year, has told team officials he is thinking about sitting out next season — apparently for family reasons, general manager Peter Chiarelli said.

• Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. surrendered in a Las Vegas courtroom to begin a jail sentence of up to 87 days for attacking his ex-girlfriend in September 2010 while two of their children watched.

Mayweather, 35, has a 43-0 record.

• Numerous Olympic track-and-field hopefuls are scheduled to compete Saturday at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Ore. Meet director Tom Jordan sounded impressed with his product when he said, "Best fields ever assembled on American soil."

The meet got off to a soggy start Friday night, with Americans Alysia Montano (800), Alice Schmidt (1,500) and Christian Taylor (triple jump) winning while competing in a steady downpour.

The U.S. Olympic trials begin June 21 in Eugene.

• Defending WNBA champion Minnesota beat host Connecticut 85-72. Seimone Augustus scored 23 points for the Lynx (6-0).

In other games, Becky Hammon scored 30 points as San Antonio routed visiting Phoenix 85-66 and Sylvia Fowles' layup beat the buzzer as host Chicago edged Washington 65-63.

• Jonathon Crawford of top-seeded Florida pitched the seventh no-hitter in NCAA baseball-tournament history as the host Gators beat Bethune-Cookman 4-0 in the opener of the best-of-three Gainesville Regional.

All five Pac-12 schools in the 64-team NCAA tournament — Oregon, Oregon State, UCLA, Stanford and Arizona — won their regional openers.

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