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NFL PLAYOFFS Divisional Playoffs Saturday's games Arizona at New Orleans, 1:30 p.m. (FOX) Baltimore at Indianapolis, 5:15 p.m. (CBS) Sunday's games Dallas at Minnesota, 10 a.m. (FOX) N.Y. Jets at San Diego, 1:40 p.m. (CBS) NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Pacific Division W L Pct GB Lakers 29 8 .784 — Phoenix 24 14 .632 5.5 Clippers 17 18 .486 11 KINGS 15 21 .417 13.5 WARRIORS 11 24 .314 17 Southwest Division W L Pct GB Dallas 25 12 .676 — San Antonio 22 13 .629 2 Houston 21 16 .568 4 New Orleans 19 17 .528 5.5 Memphis 18 18 .500 6.5 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Denver 24 14 .632 — Portland 23 16 .590 1.5 Okla. City 21 16 .568 2.5 Utah 21 17 .553 3 Minnesota 8 31 .205 16.5 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Boston 26 10 .722 — Toronto 19 20 .487 8.5 New York 15 22 .405 11.5 Philadelphia 12 25 .324 14.5 New Jersey 3 34 .081 23.5 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Orlando 25 12 .676 — Atlanta 24 13 .649 1 Miami 18 18 .500 6.5 Charlotte 16 19 .457 8 Washington 12 23 .343 12 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 29 10 .744 — Chicago 16 20 .444 11.5 Milwaukee 15 20 .429 12 Indiana 12 25 .324 16 Detroit 11 25 .306 16.5 ——— Monday's results Cleveland at Golden State, late Atlanta 102, Boston 96 Chicago 120, Detroit 87 Denver 105, Minnesota 94 Indiana 105, Toronto 101 Oklahoma City 106, New York 88 Philadelphia 96, New Orleans 92 Phoenix 105, Milwaukee 101 Utah 118, Miami 89 Today's games Orlando at Sacramento, 7 p.m., CSNCA Detroit at Washington, 4 p.m. Houston at Charlotte, 4 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Memphis, 5 p.m. L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m. NCAA Monday's Top 25 result No. 4 Villanova 92, Louisville 84 Today's Top 25 games No. 2 Kentucky at Florida, 6 p.m., ESPN No. 6 Purdue vs. Ohio State, 4 p.m., ESPN No.13 Kansas St.vs.Texas A&M, 4 p.m., ESPN2 No. 22 Baylor at Colorado, 6 p.m. No. 25 Florida State vs. N.C. State, 4 p.m. The Top Twenty Five The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 10, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Texas (56) 15-0 1,616 2 2. Kentucky (9) 16-0 1,569 3 3. Kansas 14-1 1,441 1 4. Villanova 14-1 1,426 6 5. Syracuse 15-1 1,353 7 6. Purdue 14-1 1,317 4 7. Michigan St. 13-3 1,191 10 8. Duke 13-2 1,178 5 9. Tennessee 12-2 1,030 16 10. West Virginia 12-2 1,006 8 11. Georgetown 12-2 934 12 12. North Carolina 12-4 844 9 13. Kansas St. 13-2 746 11 13. Wisconsin 13-3 746 17 15. Connecticut 11-4 633 13 16. Pittsburgh 13-2 565 23 17. Gonzaga 12-3 559 19 18. BYU 16-1 456 25 19. Temple 13-3 388 21 20. Georgia Tech 12-3 342 20 21. Mississippi 12-3 326 14 22. Baylor 13-1 301 — 23. Miami 15-1 189 — 24. Clemson 13-3 167 — 25. Florida St. 13-3 155 18 Others receiving votes: Texas A&M 126, N. Iowa 91, Missouri 64, Mississippi St. 61, New Mexico 59, Dayton 39, UAB 35, UNLV 28, Oklahoma St. 26, Vanderbilt 21, Notre Dame 18, Wake Forest 14, Cornell 12, Butler 10, Texas Tech 10, Marquette 9, Virginia Tech 9, William & Mary 8, Florida 2, Louisiana Tech 2, Harvard 1, Missouri St. 1, Siena 1. NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Pacific Division W L OT Pts GF GA SHARKS 28 10 7 63 147 117 Phoenix 26 15 5 57 120 112 Kings 25 17 3 53 134 128 Dallas 19 15 11 49 128 141 Ducks 20 19 7 47 129 143 Central Division W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 31 11 4 66 152 102 Nashville 26 16 3 55 128 127 Detroit 23 15 6 52 115 110 Columbus 18 20 9 45 124 154 St. Louis 18 19 7 43 115 130 Northwest Division W L OT Pts GF GA Calgary 26 14 5 57 123 108 Vancouver 27 16 2 56 145 109 Colorado 25 15 6 56 135 132 Minnesota 23 20 3 49 126 137 Edmonton 16 23 5 37 121 147 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L OT Pts GF GA New Jersey 31 11 1 63 124 90 Pittsburgh 28 18 1 57 149 130 Rangers 22 17 6 50 120 122 Philadelphia 22 19 3 47 134 125 Islanders 19 19 8 46 118 144 Northeast Division W L OT Pts GF GA Buffalo 28 11 5 61 123 102 Boston 22 15 7 51 114 107 Ottawa 22 20 4 48 126 141 Montreal 22 21 4 48 119 126 Toronto 15 22 9 39 123 160 Southeast Division W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 27 11 6 60 162 121 Atlanta 19 19 6 44 137 149 Tampa Bay 17 17 10 44 107 130 Florida 18 20 7 43 128 140 Carolina 13 24 7 33 110 152 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Monday's results San Jose at Los Angeles, late Minnesota 4, Pittsburgh 3 Colorado at Calgary, late Nashville at Vancouver, late Today's games San Jose at Phoenix, 6 p.m. CSNBA Carolina at Toronto, 4 p.m. Dallas at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Detroit at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m. New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m. VERSUS Ottawa at Atlanta, 4 p.m. Washington at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m. Columbus at St. Louis, 5 p.m. Nashville at Edmonton, 6 p.m. GOLF PGA Tour FedExCup Name Pts Money 1. Geoff Ogilvy 500 $1,120,000 2. Rory Sabbatini 300 $645,000 3. Matt Kuchar 190 $426,000 4. Martin Laird 123 $300,000 4. Sean O'Hair 123 $300,000 6. Retief Goosen 92 $208,333 6. Ryan Moore 92 $208,333 6. Kenny Perry 92 $208,333 9. Stewart Cink 80 $185,000 10. Angel Cabrera 68 $160,000 10. Paul Casey 68 $160,000 10. Pat Perez 68 $160,000 10. Steve Stricker 68 $160,000 TENNIS ATP Money Leaders 1. Nikolay Davydenko $185,850 2. Rafael Nadal $100,040 3. Marin Cilic $68,450 4. Andy Roddick $66,710 5. Viktor Troicki $57,100 6. Roger Federer $52,520 7. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez $38,605 7. Albert Montanes $38,605 9. Stanislas Wawrinka $37,730 10. Radek Stepanek $35,265 WTA Tour Money Leaders 1.Yanina Wickmayer $37,825 2. Kim Clijsters $37,000 3. Flavia Pennetta $20,550 4. Justine Henin $19,000 5. Francesca Schiavone $11,750 6. Shahar Peer $10,630 7. Ana Ivanovic $10,200 7. Andrea Petkovic $10,200 9. Melinda Czink $8,215 10. Aleksandra Wozniak $7,315 DEALS National Football League SAN FRANCISCO—Signed TE Joe Jon Fin- ley to a reserve-future contract. ATLANTA—Signed DT Dan Klecko to a reserve-future contract. CLEVELAND—Named Tom Heckert gener- al manager. Named Bryan Wiedmeier execu- tive vice president of business operations. MIAMI—Fired defensive coordinator Paul Pasqualoni. SEATTLE—Named Pete Carroll coach. National Basketball Association SACRAMENTO—Acquired F Hilton Arm- strong from New Orleans for a conditional 2016 second-round pick and cash considera- tions. DALLAS—Acquired F Eduardo Najera from New Jersey for F Kris Humphries and F Shawne Williams. NEW JERSEY—Waived F Sean Williams. National Hockey League NHL—Suspended Phoenix D Ed Jovanovski for two games for elbowing New York Islanders C John Tavares in a Jan. 9 game. CHICAGO—Reassigned RW Jack Skille to Rockford (AHL). MONTREAL—Reassigned G Robert Mayer from Hamilton (AHL) to Cincinnati (ECHL). N.Y. RANGERS—Recalled G Chad Johnson from Hartford (AHL). Assigned G Matt Zaba to Hartford. PHOENIX—Activated F Scottie Upshall from injured reserve. Major League Baseball American League KANSAS CITY—Signed RHP Matt Herges to a minor league contract. TAMPA BAY—Signed 1B Dan Johnson to a one-year contract. TEXAS—Agreed to terms with DH Vladimir Guerrero on a one-year contract. National League CHICAGO—Named Greg Maddux assistant to the general manager. CINCINNATI—Agreed to terms with LHP Aroldis Chapman on a six-year contract. LOS ANGELES—Agreed to terms with OF Jason Repko on a one-year contract. SAN DIEGO—Promoted Tim Holt to central regional scouting supervisor, Ash Lawson to northeast regional scouting supervisor and Ilana Miller to coordinator, scouting and play- er development. Named Justin Baughman, Jeff Curtis, Josh Emmerick, Kevin Ellis, Shane Monahan and Mark Connor area scouts. Major League Soccer CHICAGO—Named Carlos de los Cobos coach. College AKRON—Named Mike Cochran football strength and conditioning coach. ALABAMA—Junior LB Rolando McClain will enter the NFL draft. ARIZONA—Named Greg Brown co-defen- sive coordinator. CHARLOTTE—Announced redshirt fresh- man basketball G Shamarr Bowden will transfer at the end of the semester. DEPAUL—Fired men's basketball coach Jerry Wainwright. Named Tracy Webster men's interim basketball coach. FLORIDA—Junior DE Carlos Dunlap and junior C Maurkice Pouncey will enter the NFL draft. 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Currently, the Little League division mainly for 11- and 12-year-olds — the level which ends with the Little League World Series each August — is played on a field with a 46-foot pitching dis- tance and 60-foot base paths. The next level up, mainly for 13- and 14-year-olds and called Junior League, uses professional regulation fields. But officials at Little League Inter- national headquarters in South Williamsport say they have had more requests from local leagues to use an intermediate-sized field between the two levels. Some players drop out of the organization — or baseball entirely — instead of making the jump. So the new division unveiled Mon- day will use a 50-foot pitching distance and 70-foot base paths. Other changes in the ''50-70'' pilot program include allowing runners to lead off and steal at any time, and permitting headfirst slid- ing — rules not allowed in the Little League division. A year or two on the intermediate field hopefully ''keeps them in the game longer and keeps them interested longer,'' Little League vice president Lance Van Auken said. ''The idea of instituting 50-70 is a way to retain players in that age group.'' It's the first new division in Little League baseball since 1989. Little League, the world's largest youth base- ball and softball organization, will gauge interest this season before deter- mining the program's future. Participation in Little League base- ball is down nearly 16 percent from about 2.6 million worldwide at its peak in 1997 to almost 2.2 million last year. Little League growing abroad, so most of the decline has been in the United States. Organizers have cited cost concerns during the recession, teens growing more interested in video games instead of sports, and increased interest in soc- cer as some reasons for the decline. Enthusiasts also note some parents have moved their children to other baseball organizations, or to teams choosing to play more ''travel ball'' tournaments outside of Little League. Perry Papantonis has two sons, ages 6 and 8, who play in the North Hunter- don, N.J., Little League. His 10-year- old son left Little League last year for a travel ball team that played on a transi- tional-size field. Little League's move is ''a step in the right direction, but a very small step,'' Papantonis said Monday. He said he thinks the change should have been opened up to 10- and 11-year- olds, but should have left out 13-year- olds who he said might be physically ready to play on regulation fields — especially given the improved quality of aluminum bats. Papantonis plans to leave his two younger sons in Little League, but leave his older son in travel ball and coach his team. ''I'd rather my oldest play in the community ... but I think the (transi- tional-field) game is that much better,'' Papantonis said. Another baseball organization, Babe Ruth League's Cal Ripken divi- sion, has become more popular in his region, he said. Babe Ruth has allowed 11- and 12-year-olds to play on either size field for several years. Babe Ruth has about 900,000 base- ball players, said Robert Faherty, vice president/commissioner of the Tren- ton, N.J.-based organization. ''They weren't overwhelmed. We always felt the players were looking for the next challenge,'' Faherty said about use of the transitional fields. ''You start playing baseball so early these days.'' Drawing 650 players from a grow- ing area, the Little League in Hedgesville, W.Va., has more than doubled in size over the last 10 years, said league president Nevin Kilmer. It's at the cutoff after the Little League division in which Hedgesville starts losing players. While enthusias- tic about the change, Kilmer was unsure how much interest it might draw. Many leagues have started sign-ups for this season, or begin sign-ups in the next month. ''We lose a lot of kids who think they can't play'' on the current field dimensions for the 13- and 14-year-old league,'' Kilmer said. ''Good kids can handle it, but for intermediate kids the field is too big.'' Pending interest, the new Little League division could have its own tournament by 2011, Van Auken said, though the World Series would still be played on the current smaller field. that I've held this in.'' Yet, he sounded as if all the criticism had wounded the pride he had built as the 1987 AL Rookie of the Year and a 12-time All-Star. ''There's no way a pill or an injection will give you hand-eye coordination or the ability or the great mind that I've had as a baseball play- er,'' he said. ''I was always the last one to leave. I was always hitting by myself. I took care of myself.'' He said he first used steroids between the 1989 and 1990 seasons, after help- ing the Oakland Athletics to a World Series sweep when he and Jose Canseco formed the Bash Brothers. ''When you work out at gyms, people talk about things like that. It was readi- ly available,'' he said. ''I tried it for a couple of weeks. I really didn't think much of it.'' He said he returned to steroids after the 1993 sea- son, when he missed all but 27 games with a mysterious heel injury, after being told steroids might speed his recovery. ''I did this for health pur- poses. There's no way I did this for any type of strength purposes,'' he said. ''I truly believe I was given the gifts from the Man Upstairs of being a home run hitter, ever since ... birth,'' McGwire said. ''My first hit as a Little Leaguer was a home run. I mean, they still talk about the home runs I hit in high school, in Legion ball. I led the nation in home runs in college, and then all the way up to my rookie year, 49 home runs. ''But, starting '93 to '94, I thought it might help me, you know, where I'd get my body feeling normal, where I wasn't a walking MASH unit,'' he said. And there was the pres- sure of living up to his previ- ous performance and his multimillion-dollar salary, McGwire said, adding that he was ''getting paid a lot of money to try to stay up to that level.'' After being confronted by the AP during the home run streak in 1998, McGwire admitted using androstene- dione, a steroid precursor that was then legally avail- able and didn't become a controlled substance until 2004. Baseball and its play- ers didn't agree to ban steroids until a year after his retirement. McGwire wasn't sure whether his use of perfor- mance-enhancing drugs con- tributed to some of the injuries that led to his retire- ment, at age 38, in 2001. ''It could have. I don't know,'' he said. McGwire's 70 homers in 1998 came in a compelling race with Sammy Sosa, who finished with 66. More than anything else, the home run spree revitalized baseball following the crippling strike that wiped out the 1994 World Series. Now that McGwire has come clean, increased glare might fall on Sosa, who has denied using performing- enhancing drugs. Selig praised McGwire, saying, ''This statement of contrition, I believe, will make Mark's re-entry into the game much smoother and easier.'' McGwire became the second major baseball star in less than a year to admit using illegal steroids, follow- ing the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez last Febru- ary. Big Mac and A-Rod, coincidentally, are currently tied on the home-run list. Besides Bonds, others facing questions include Roger Clemens, Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz. Like Bonds, they have denied knowingly using ille- gal or banned substances. Clemens is under investiga- tion by a federal grand jury trying to determine whether he lied to a congressional committee. McGwire said he wanted to come forward at the con- gressional hearing on March 17, 2005, when he sat along- side Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro, who denied using steroids but tested positive for one later that year. (Continued from page 1B) McGWIRE Warriors lose injured Randolph for extended period OAKLAND (AP) — Golden State forward Anthony Randolph will be sidelined perhaps two months or more with a seri- ous ankle injury. Randolph, a second-year pro averaging 11.6 points and a team-leading 6.5 rebounds in 22.7 minutes per game this season, underwent an MRI exam Monday on his injured left ankle that revealed a tear of two outside ligaments in the ankle and a sprain in anoth- er ligament. He also has an avulsion fracture where the muscle pulled away from a piece of bone, which had prior damage from a previ- ous sprain. The Warriors said Ran- dolph will wear a walking boot for three weeks and then be re-evaluated. Randolph left Friday night's 108-101 home vic- tory over Sacramento late in the first quarter with the injury. Randolph collapsed to the floor after Tyreke Evans missed a driving layup at the buzzer and lay on the ground for several moments before teammates helped him off the court. Randolph had been making positive strides and was given more responsi- bility recently. He had start- ed the last three games and was averaging 13.7 points. During Randolph's absence, the Warriors will rely more on Ronny Turiaf, struggling forward Vladimir Radmanovic and sparsely used Devean George. Kings acquire Armstrong from Hornets SACRAMENTO (AP) — The Sacramento Kings acquired forward Hilton Armstrong from the New Orleans Hornets for a conditional 2016 second- round pick and cash con- siderations. Kings president of bas- ketball operations Geoff Petrie announced the deal Monday, saying Arm- strong would contribute immediately at power for- ward and center. Armstrong is in his fourth NBA season out of Connecticut. He is aver- aging 2.8 points and 3.4 rebounds in 18 games this season. He has played 209 career games, averaging 3.6 points and 2.7 rebounds per contest.