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MORE ONLINE Check out more photos galleries, schedules, scores and more about your favorite high school, college and pro teams at BucyrusTelegraphForum.com. Y) 0 Wednesday July 8, 2009 6A Pare 7 A. Telegraph-Forum I) Mew WS volleyball coach 'can's wai in 2004 and majored in early childhood education and intervention specialist at Heidelberg. "I was in class all the time," Ruffing said. "I didn't get a chance to play anything there." She said her approach to coaching will be hands-on.

Til get a chance to practice with the girls and show them what we need them to do," Ruffing said. dcluttefnncogannett.coni 419-563-9225 and will be around the girls," Jeffrey said. "It will be a chance for her to recruit girls and build up the numbers in the program." Ruffing said she looks forward to getting back to volleyball. "I'm really excited," Ruffing said. "I am thrilled to have the opportunity.

"I used to play in high school and I just want to get back into the sport asacoach." Ruffing was a top setter for the Redmen and was voted one of the By Dan Clutter Telegraph-Forum BUCYRUS In working through a double major in college, Katie Ruffing didn't get a chance to participate in her favorite sport, volleyball Now, the former Bellevue star and2009 Heidelberg College graduate will get back to the sport she loves as the new volleyball coach at Bucyrus High School. BHS athletics director Tom Jef Northwest District's top players in 2003. "She has experience, since she played volleyball in high school, and her knowledge of the game is very good," Jeffrey said. Ruffing said her job as a setter for the Redmen was to be the coach on the floor. "I had to run the offense and defense for each play," Ruffing said.

"So I know how to run an offense and defense." Ruffing graduated from Bellevue frey said he picked Ruffing from three candidates to replace Kristin Bohach. He said Ruffing was the best choice. "She's young and energetic," Jeffrey said. "She will be teaching in the district and had an interest in coaching." Ruffing was approved as a coach at the June 30 at Bucyrus Board of Education meeting. She was already scheduled to teach high school science and social studies.

"She will be in the high school (Gain f' i- rv A i i i I 1 I I i vwk i -K VAMi XX Stallworth tape adds details in crash case MIAMI (AP) Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte' Stallworth told police he drank up to four shots of premium tequila while partying at a Miami Beach club, but did not feel drunk in the hours before he struck and killed a pedestrian with his car. In a recorded interview, Stallworth told police he met fellow Browns receiver Braylon Edwards and others at a hotel sometime after 2 a.m. March 14. Stallworth said he drank some tequila from Edwards' table and later bought shots himself "Three, four at the most," Stallworth said. "I wasn't really counting." When asked if he was intoxicated, Stallworth said: "No, sir." Lab tests later showed Stallworth had a blood-alcohol level of .126, above Florida's .08 limit Stallworth, 28, is serving a 30-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to DUI manslaughter in the death of 59-year-old Mario Reyes.

Stallworth also reached an undisclosed financial settlement with Reyes' family, which factored into his relatively light sentence. The Stallworth interview with Miami Beach police and other evidence was released Tuesday by prosecutors under a public records request by The Associated Press. Stallworth said he left the club sometime after 4 a.m., went to his Miami condominium for a nap and then decided to go out for breakfast in his 2005 Bentley. That's when he encountered Reyes, who was leaving his job as a crane operator, crossing a busy road. "I seen him in the street and I flashed my lights at him to let him at least know I was coming.

I tried to swerve over as much as I could," Stallworth said. Edwards, 26, said he and Stallworth had drinks earlier in the day by the pool at the hotel before meeting at the nightclub. A receipt shows Edwards spent $3,443 that night including $1,500 on Perrier-Jouet Rose champagne and $695 on Grey Goose vodka and he said Stallworth didn't seem impaired when they parted ways. Stallworth's credit card receipts shows he bought a $375 bottle of Patron Silver that he sent to Edwards' table, and five shots of the tequila for $90. UFC show There's only so much our nation's politicians can do in their limited time in Washington, D.C., and only so many issues they can tackle.

A national health care plan promises to be a big topic this summer, and there will likely be a vote on a new Supreme Court nominee. There are two wars to monitor, and bills to be passed to keep the economy afloat. And, of course, there's the Bowl Championship Series to fix. The Senate plunges into that Tuesday with yet another hearing on the evils of big schools beating up on little schools and the ensu ski TIM DAHLBERG Associated Press ing damage it does to college athletics. Proving that there is no offseason in pandering to constituents, Sen.

Orrin Hatch sought the hearing, ostensibly to debate possible antitrust violations by the BCS. Hatch, for those who don't know, is one of the most influential Republicans in the Senate, so when he asks for thing he often gets it. He's also the senior senator from Utah, home of what very well may have been the best college football team in the nation last year. That fact was curiously omitted from Hatch's op-ed piece in Sports Illustrated last week, which identified him only as the Senate's senior Republican. In the piece, Hatch railed about how the Mountain West Conference received only half the money bigger conferences did from the bowl series and said it was clear that no changes would be made unless Congress stepped into the matter.

On the last point, Hatch is probably right. The major conferences aren't about to let anyone in on their lucrative cartel unless absolutely forced to, as shown last month when the BCS presidents rejected a proposal by the Mountain West to create an eight-team playoff to determine a true national champion. They did so with an arrogance born of the certainty MIXED MARTIAL Northmor By Jon Spencer Telegraph-Forum IBERIA Northmor High School graduate C.B. Doll-away will fight Saturday on the undercard of what is being billed as the biggest event in mixed martial arts history. Florida football coach Urban Meyer holds up the BCS Championship trophy in Gainesville, during a January ceremony honoring the team for their win over Oklahoma for the national championship.

(AP file photo) played between Oklahoma 1 and Florida, which each had one loss. Little wonder the main witness at Hatch's Judiciary subcommittee hearing will be Michael Young, president of the University of Utah. Young will presumably speak out about the unfairness of having a great football team' but having no shot at a national title because the biggest conferences are making up the rules and pocketing the profits. It's not the first time Congress has tackled the issue. There have been hearings before, including one in May on a bill by a Texas congressman that would prohibit the NCAA from declaring any team a that they are untouchable.

And perhaps they are, armed with a new $125 million a year contract that gives ESPN the right to televise the major bowls through 2014. The big conferences have the money, and they have the bowls. Not much need to toss the smaller schools a bone when you're invincible. That's led to a lot of grumbling in places where teams begin practice next month with no chance for anything bigger than the Chick-fil-A Bowl if they don't win every game. The University of Utah did just that last year and was lucky to get a spot in the Sugar Bowl, while the BCS championship game was ARTS national champion unless there was a playoff system.

Rep. Joe Barton warned BCS coordinator John Swofford then that if something wasn't done in two months the bill would move forward. Expect some new warnings at the latest hearing, though it's unlikely even Hatch's influence would be enough to get the Justice Department to take up a serious antitrust investigation. The First Fan, President Barack Obama, can't even break the cartel. Obama has not only spoken out against the BCS, but said the one thing he would like to change in sports is to create a playoff in college football.

Hatch may be playing to Saturday the home fans with his mini-campaign against the BCS, but at least he's making an effort. Yes, he wouldn't have been nearly as interested had the Utes gone 5-7 last season, but that's not really the point. The point is Hatch is speaking out against a system that is inherently unfair to schools without most favored status. He's making a case on behalf of football fans everywhere who want a national playoff to settle the score. It may take an act of Congress to get it done.

Tim Ddhlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlbergap.org night's big grad on undercard of back-to-back wins over Jesse Taylor and Mike Massenzio (first-round TKO). The Arizona Combat Sports member was a state champion wresder for Northmor and an All-American at Arizona State. In Lawlor, he'll be facing another accomplished wresder. Lawlor, 5-1 in the MMA and 1-0 in the UFC, is a former light heavyweight looking for his third straight win.

He won by unanimous decision over Kyle Kingsbury in theTUF8 finale in December to earn his spot on the UFC roster. The Florida-based fight er was a three-time All-American wrestler at the University of Central Florida. Another of the headline fights in UFC 100 features the welterweight title defense of Georges "Rush" against Thiago "Pitbull" Alves. Dan "Hendo" Henderson will take on Michael "The Count" Bisping in a middleweight clash while Jon Fitch faces Paulo Thiago at 170 pounds. Holly Madison, one of the stars of the Network's "Girl Next Door," is set for ring-girl duties.

series, in a UFC 100 middleweight bout in Las Vegas. In one of the main events, UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar will defend his belt against Frank Mir in one of the main events. The card will air on pay-per-view. Dollaway, 8-1 in mixed martial arts and 2-1 in the UFC, will be returning to competition for the first time since December and seeking his third consecutive win. After suffering a first-round submission loss to Amir Sadollah in "TUF7" finale, Dollaway has Dollaway Dollaway, runner-up on "The Ultimate Fighter 7," will face Tom Lawlor, of the eight season of the Spike TV.