Newsmakers

Reshuffled Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly has shaken up his staff following the departures of running backs coach Tim Hinton and offensive line coach Ed Warinner. Chuck Martin, who had been coaching the defensive backs, is the new offensive coordinator for the Fighting Irish. He replaces Charley Molnar, who is the new head coach at Massachusetts. The school also named defensive coordinator Bob Diaco an assistant head coach and promoted Scott Booker from intern to offensive assistant. Kerry Cooks is now co-defensive coordinator.

Announced North Carolina says junior defensive end Donte Paige-Moss has told Tar Heels coaches he plans to enter the NFL draft. Paige-Moss played all 13 games and finished with 29 tackles, four tackles for loss and two sacks. He tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during the Tar Heels’ loss to Missouri in the Independence Bowl on Dec. 26.

Named Montana’s Will Cherry has been selected the Big Sky Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week. Cherry averaged 18.5 points, five rebounds and 4 1/2 assists in victories over Portland State and Eastern Washington last week.

Considering Hall of Famer and former New York Giants linebacker Harry Carson says he’s considering a run for Congress in New Jersey. Reached by phone, Carson told the Associated Press he hasn’t made a definitive decision but is thinking about it. Carson, a Franklin Lakes, N.J., resident, spent his entire professional career, from 1976 to 1988, with the Giants. The idea of running for office became more attractive last month after the redrawing of congressional districts and resulting moves left Republican Rep. Scott Garrett without a Democratic challenger.

Died Olympic fencer and movie sword master Bob Anderson, who appeared in some of film’s most famous dueling scenes, including “Star Wars,” has died at age 89. Anderson, who trained as a fencing coach and represented Britain at the 1952 Olympics and the 1950 and 1953 world championships, died early Sunday at a hospital in London, the British Academy of Fencing said.