Newsmakers

Accepted Utah offensive coordinator Norm Chow accepted the job as Hawaii’s new head football coach, a person with knowledge of the situation said Tuesday. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because all the details of the move have not yet been formalized.

Hired Southern Miss hired veteran defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson to take over its football program. The 59-year-old Johnson spent the past four years as defensive coordinator at South Carolina.

• Four-time Indy winner A.J. Foyt hired IndyCar veteran Mike Conway to drive the No. 14 car in 2012. He will replace Brazil’s Vitor Meira.

Suspended Iowa Hawkeyes sophomore star running back Marcus Coker has been suspended from the Dec. 30 Insight Bowl against Oklahoma after violating the university’s student-athlete code of conduct.

• The Pac-12 suspended Arizona State center Ruslan Pateev one game for his involvement in an altercation against Southern Mississippi.

Declared North Carolina declared top receiver Dwight Jones ineligible for the Independence Bowl after the senior allowed his name and photo to be used on a flyer promoting a party at a club in his hometown.

Approved Miami Hurricanes basketball player DeQuan Jones received approval to return to competition after sitting out the season’s first 10 games because of an NCAA investigation of allegations he was recruited with the help of $10,000 in cash from a booster.

Sidelined Memphis forward Darrell Arthur will miss the season after an MRI exam confirmed a torn right Achilles tendon suffered during practice Sunday.

Ratified The governing body of world athletics ratified the marathon world record set by Patrick Makau in Germany in September. The Kenyan runner clocked 2 hours, 3 minutes, 38 seconds at the Berlin Marathon on Sept. 25, shaving 21 seconds off the mark held by Ethiopian great Haile Gebrselassie.