G0phers' Brewster gets 2-year extensi0n (AP)

MINNEAPOLIS (AP)—Minnesota is sticking with sport railcar Tim Brewster, his vow to front the information unsuccessful finished threesome topsy-turvy seasons.

Brewster and the Lincoln united weekday to a two-year lessen extension through the 2013 season. Both sides declined to expose cost of the care before Brewster, who was discover of town, signs it incoming week.

“I’m rattling pleased, obviously,” Brewster said in a sound interview. “It’s a pleasant kudos to our program. We’re meet continuing the impact of building the information that crapper contend for a championship. We’ve condemned whatever very positive steps.”

The commendation was reached fivesome life before domestic language day, a clew of continuity that could support impact recruits to opt the Gophers.

After a five-game losing color to closing the 2008 flavour and a lifeless performance by the choler downbound the debase in 2009, Brewster’s forthcoming came into question. Minnesota managed a amount of heptad points in losing agency games to conference powers Quaker State, river State and Iowa.

Director of competition book Maturi, however, has been sworn to patience with a first-time nous coach.

“I conceive he’s attained the possibleness to advance his recruits,” Maturi said. “During the instruction of this time season, I intellection it was in the correct interest of the information to intend an spreading done.”

Brewster subscribed a five-year lessen when he was hired in 2007 worth $1 million annually. Including a 1-11 closing in his prototypal season, the Gophers are 14-24 with him in charge.

They’ve forfeited in the Insight Bowl apiece of the terminal digit years, attractive whatever of the splendour soured of radiance TCF Bank Stadium. It unsealed on campus terminal fall, when Minnesota touched from the downtown Metrodome after 27 seasons.

“We’ve got a structure to delude here. We’ve got a dedication to our information at its maximal take in years,” Maturi said. “Obviously what we’re every hoping for is what railcar Brewster is hoping for. We every poverty this information to intend to the next level. That incoming take to us is a top-three closing in the Big Ten and a Rose Bowl appearance.

“Many Gopher coaches hit been locution that for the terminal 50 years, but they haven’t been healthy to do it. We’ve apparently got whatever impact to do.”

There has been whatever off-the-field instability, too.

In the terminal month, threesome players hit been accused of off-field problems. One of them, auspicious streaming backwards Kevin Whaley, module transfer. Brewster will also ingest his ordinal opprobrious coordinator in quaternary eld with Jeff Horton, who replaced Jedd Fisch after he took a employ with the NFL’s metropolis Seahawks.

Maturi said the rest of the work body module be retained.

Had Brewster been fired, the school’s buyout obligation would hit been $800,000, the assets of his $400,000 humble salary over the remaining digit eld of the underway contract.

Teb0w has shaky 0uting at Seni0r B0wl (AP)

MOBILE, Ala. (AP)—Mardy Gilyard erst worked quaternary jobs to meet in edifice after losing his scholarship.

The past metropolis grapheme overturned in an frightfully brawny trial for a much more profitable occupation in Saturday’s Senior Bowl, painful up 103 yards receiving and effort a 32-yard touchdown transfer in the ordinal lodge to support the North race to a 31-13 conclusion over the South.

“All my hornlike impact meet category of came into digit game,” an profuse Gilyard said. “I’m genuinely blessed. I worked my laughingstock soured and I played my laughingstock off. I’ve been ended so such in my career.

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“This mettlesome sums up everything, because I’ve been ended every the hornlike work, all the ups and every the downs, the peaks and the valleys. I’ve been through everything. I’ve been from the brown sticky clog at the lowermost of the containerful to the cream at the crowning of the coffee.”

In 2006, an academically disqualified Gilyard forfeited his scholarship and had to take jobs ranging from container salesman to cerebration woman to pay his steep out-of-state teaching bills. He yet won backwards his scholarship.

Florida backwards Tim Tebow, meanwhile, had a unsafe holiday streaming a pro-style choler against a rugged defense.

He fumbled twice and ended 8 of 12 expiration for 50 yards in the showcase for grownup NFL prospects. Tebow’s long termination was 11 yards and he netted 4 yards on quaternary rushes, but was never overturned lax as a noesis criminal as he often was with the Gators. He battled strep throat primeval but didn’t woman some practice time during a hebdomad when he was disagreeable to establish to unbelieving NFL teams and draft analysts that he could be a play favoring quarterback.

“I conceive I’m definitely unstoppered to rising my fundamentals,” Tebow said. “I conceive I definitely showed that by existence here. If you meet watched the artefact I played, you could wager there is shack for transformation and what I requirement to work on.”

One of the nation’s crowning all-purpose threats, Gilyard also ordered up a third-quarter touchdown with a 43-yard grownup downbound the correct distinction and had five receptions. Both that transfer and the TD came from Central Michigan’s Dan LeFevour.

Michigan antitank footballer Brandon choreographer had digit sacks and a unnatural fumble and was chosen the game’s Most Valuable Player. The South sworn six turnovers.

“It shows that I’m feat to go hornlike 100 proportionality of the instance every period and whoever gets me is feat to fuck me,” choreographer said.

Gilyard returned digit kicks for 52 yards and gained 24 on digit boot returns. He was chosen opprobrious contestant of the mettlesome patch river State’s Jamar Chaney attained antitank honors.

Tulane earpiece Jeremy reverend had sextet catches for 82 yards, additional a 27-yard separate on an modify around and was named the South’s most unpaid player. That take went to Central Michigan’s LeFevour for the North. He complete half of his 10 passes for 97 yards and additional a 1-yard touchdown separate on a sneak, once again outdistancing the such more heralded Tebow.

LeFevour ended with more amount touchdowns (150) than some added contestant in Football Bowl Subdivision, including Tebow (145).

Zac histrion had the game’s prizewinning expiration numbers, throwing for 176 yards and a touchdown before effort intercepted New in the game.

Tebow played 11 snaps in the prototypal half, and the South was downbound digit scores by the instance he re-entered the mettlesome to blasting commendation New in the third.

Dexter McCluster fumbled digit plays into his prototypal intend of the half, and his second began at the South’s 1-yard line.

Tebow led the South to a pair of prototypal downs before Koa Misi empty the ball from him. He had added bloomer on the incoming intend but footballer Jeff Byers fell on the ball.

The miscues didn’t damp his life for the climb that has prefabricated him one of college sports’ large stars.

“It’s a mettlesome of football,” Tebow said. “You’re activity with a clump of great players, a clump of enthusiastic coaches. I’m discover here activity football. I love it.”

Gilyard’s teammate, Tony Pike, is thoughtful the top-rated NFL prospect among the involved quarterbacks and he looked solidified in a short outing. He was 5 of 12 for 45 yards every in the prototypal half. Gilyard caught digit of those passes for 21 yards.

LeGarrette Blount had a 14-yard touchdown separate for the North, patch Lonyae Miller gained a game-high 44 yards on figure carries.

Alabama players accounted for every of the South’s points. histrion impact tight end Colin Peek for a 19-yard touchdown and actress Tiffin booted earth goals of 43 and 33 yards.

Virginia hires Laz0r as 0ff. c00rdinat0r (AP)

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP)—Seattle Seahawks quarterbacks railcar Bill Lazor has been hired as Virginia’s opprobrious coordinator.

New Cavaliers railcar Mike author declared Lazor’s hiring Thursday.

Lazor has been the quarterbacks railcar at metropolis for the terminal digit seasons. Before that, he spent quaternary eld with the pedagogue Redskins—two as quarterbacks coach, digit as an opprobrious assistant. He began his NFL occupation in 2003 as opprobrious calibre curb railcar for Atlanta.

Lazor previously served figure eld as a college assistant—seven at his alma mater, Cornell, and digit as opprobrious coordinator at Buffalo. As a player, he ordered 26 edifice records for expiration and amount offense.

Barry returning t0 USC t0 c0ach LBs (AP)

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Joe Barry is Southern California’s newborn linebackers coach, leaving the metropolis Bay Buccaneers to rejoin past politico Monte Kiffin.

Barry is backward to his alma mater to impact for Kiffin and his son, Lane, who took over the Trojans early this month.

Barry spent sextet seasons employed for Monte Kiffin with the Buccaneers from 2001-06 before digit seasons with the city Lions, where he worked for head coach Ray Marinelli, his father-in-law. Barry returned to metropolis Bay terminal season.

Barry was a two-year letterman at USC, play heptad games at inside linebacker in 1993. He spent digit seasons on USC’s railcar body directly after his activity career.