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Citing his 72.5 percent winning record, six trips to the Final Four and two national championships, Louisville gave basketball coach Denny Crum a four-year contract extension. … Two-sport prep star Ronald Curry of Richmond, Va., made it official, announcing he will attend the University of North Carolina and will play basketball (guard) and football (quarterback).

Canada’s Olympic women’s ice hockey coach Shannon Miller is being fired a month after guiding her country to a silver medal at the Winter Olympics. … Nicole Bobek withdrew from the World Figure Skating Championships with a lingering hip injury, apparently ending her Olympic-level career.