Newsmakers

Settled Former West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart will receive $1.65 million as part of a settlement agreement, the university said Monday. WVU released the agreement to the Associated Press under a West Virginia Freedom of Information Act request. WVU said the payment was for “general and liquidated damages” but didn’t indicate whether any of it was for salary owed for the 2011 season. As a condition of the settlement, the university and Stewart agreed not to pursue future action and refrain from engaging in disparaging conduct or communications against the other.

Re-signed The Calgary Flames have re-signed goalie Henrik Karlsson to a two-year, $1.725 million deal. Karlsson played 17 games in 2010-11 as Miikka Kiprusoff’s backup in Calgary, with a 4-5-6 record, a 2.58 goals-against average and a .908 save percentage.

Increased Missouri has made it much more expensive for its new men’s basketball coach to leave before his contract is up. The school that lost former head coach Mike Anderson to Arkansas two months ago has sharply increased the buyout penalty for Frank Haith, his successor. The buyout starts at $1.2 million after one year and gradually decreases to $500,000 by year four. Anderson’s contract capped the buyout penalty at $550,000, an amount equal to two years of his base salary.

Resigned FIFA vice president Jack Warner quit and soccer’s governing body dropped a bribery investigation of him, saying the “presumption of innocence is maintained.” Warner and Asian soccer chief Mohamed bin Hammam were suspended by FIFA last month amid the gravest corruption crisis to rock the scandal-hit organization. The two leaders were accused of offering $40,000 cash payments to Caribbean voters during bin Hammam’s failed presidential campaign to unseat Sepp Blatter. Warner said he resigned by “my own volition and self-determination.” His departure appears likely to stop his promised “football tsunami” of revelations designed to embarrass FIFA after it accused him of bribery May 25.