Newsmakers

Hired CBS has hired former UCLA coach and Pac-12 Network analyst Rick Neuheisel to be a studio analyst on its Saturday college football pregame show. The network announced that Neuheisel will appear on “College Football Today,” which airs Saturday afternoons before the network’s weekly Southeastern Conference game. He will also be a regular member of the weekly show “Inside College Football” on CBS Sports Network. His quick wit and keen insight, with seemingly no fear of being critical, helped make him the Pac-12 Network’s most popular personality.

Released New England Patriots fans who can’t get enough of the team’s Super Bowl victory over the Seattle Seahawks now have a chance to watch not just Malcolm Butler’s game-clinching interception but all of the key plays during the season that led up to it. The NFL Films official DVD was released on Tuesday.

Announced Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, will be called MAPFRE Stadium after the MLS soccer team signed a multiyear naming-rights deal with the international insurance company.

• Former fan favorite Vlade Divac has rejoined the Sacramento Kings as vice president of basketball and franchise operations, a job that will include advising the front office and coaching staff. Divac, 47, retired from basketball in 2007.

• The marketing agency that represents Jameis Winston is trying to trademark “Famous Jameis,” the popular nickname for the Heisman Trophy during his two years at Florida State. Online records with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office indicate The Legacy Agency filed the trademark on behalf of Winston on Feb. 5.

• Northern Iowa senior forward Seth Tuttle, the Missouri Valley’s active leader in scoring and rebounding, has been selected the conference’s player of the year.

Apologized Canadian sports network TSN has issued a public apology to Toronto Maple Leafs captain Dion Phan euf, his wife actress Elisha Cuthbert, and forward Joffrey Lupul after it aired an inflammatory fan tweet about Cuthbert and Lupul. The apology was read by host James Duthie on “Sportscentre” and posted prominently on the network’s website after Phaneuf, Cuthbert and Lupul sent a letter threatening legal action. “In spite of TSN’s protocols to prevent unfounded and inappro- priate tweets from making it to air, a false, and inappropriate tweet was allowed to run,” TSN said. “There was no basis for the false allegation made in this tweet.”