Newsmakers

Resigned Tulane head coach Bob Toledo resigned after another slow start for the Green Wave. Athletic director Rick Dickson made the announcement Tuesday after meeting with Toledo. Dickson said he and Toledo mutually agreed the coach should resign. Dickson, the former A.D. at Washington State, said there will be a national search to replace Toledo, but that offensive line coach Mark Hutson has been named interim coach for Tulane’s remaining six games. Toledo, 65, a former head coach at UCLA, took over at Tulane in 2007.

Died Publicity-shy Cincinnati financier Carl Lindner Jr., whose wide range of businesses over the years included baseball, insurance and banks, died Monday at age 92. Lindner became controlling partner and chief executive officer of the Cincinnati Reds in a 1999 deal that ended Marge Schott’s rocky 15-year reign as owner.

Injured Welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre pulled out of the Oct. 29 UFC 137 title fight with Carlos Condit because of knee injury.

Agreed The University of Louisville agreed to new seven-year contract with football second-year coach Charlie Strong. The new deal increases Strong’s base salary from $1.6 million to $2.3 million.

Sold The Philadelphia 76ers are under new management. The deal to sell the Sixers to a group led by New York-based leveraged buyout specialist Joshua Harris has been completed. The sale ends Comcast-Spectacor’s 15-year run of ownership. The Sixers hired Adam Aron, the former chairman and CEO of Vail Resort, as Chief Executive Officer. Actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith also made personal investments in the team.

Pleaded Three men accused in a fatal beating outside a Philadelphia Phillies game pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Francis Kirchner, Charles Bowers and James Groves face up to 40 years in prison for their roles in the drunken melee in July 2009. Prosecutors say the fight between two groups of fans started over a spilled beer. Twenty-two-year-old David Sale Jr. of Lansdale, Pa., was killed.