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Sports briefs:
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Steelers-Pats ratings
CBS Sports scored the highest-rated NFL game of the season on any network with a 16.5/32 average household rating/share in the metered markets for the New England-Pittsburgh game Sunday.
Stanford’s Love to skip Sun Bowl
Stanford running back Bryce Love will skip the Sun Bowl to prepare for the NFL draft.
Love announced his decision on Monday to sit out the bowl game for the Cardinal (8-4) on Dec. 31 against Pitt (7-6). Love says he wants to be completely healthy for the 2019 draft.
Love had a rough senior season after deciding to bypass the 2018 draft after finishing as Heisman Trophy runner-up. He was slowed by injuries and finished with 739 yards on 166 carries. That was down significantly from the previous season when he ran for 2,118 yards and averaged 8.1 yards per carry. Love also set an FBS record with 13 runs of at least 50 yards.
High school wrestling
Bentworth had five pins to stop Ringgold, 39-36, in a non-section wrestling match Monday night.
Bruce Hook (120), Noah Weston (126), Owen Petrisek (170), Brody Early (182) and Shane Barber (195) had pins for the Bearcats.
Sam Braddock (Hvy) had a pin for Ringgold.
Kelly named
Coach of Year
Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly is the Associated Press college football Coach of the Year and the third coach to win the award twice since it was established in 1998.
Kelly received 16 of 58 first-place votes from AP college football poll voters and 81 total points. Alabama’s Nick Saban was second with 16 first-place votes and 66 points and Central Florida first-year coach Josh Heupel was third with 33 points (five first-place votes).
Twelve coaches received at least one first-place vote and eight received at least three for the award announced Monday. Washington State’s Mike Leach finished fourth with 26 points (three first-place votes) and Syracuse’s Dino Babers was fifth with 25 (five first-place votes).
Yankees get Happ
Left-hander J.A. Happ and the New York Yankees have finalized a $34 million, two-year contract.
Happ gets $17 million in each of the next two seasons, and his deal includes a $17 million option for 2021 that could become guaranteed is he has either 27 or more starts as a pitcher in 2020 or 165 or more innings that year.
In the NHL
Nick Foligno scored 40 seconds into the third period, Sergei Bobrovsky made 28 saves and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Vegas Golden Knights 1-0 Monday night.
Foligno found the rebound after Seth Jones’ shot and knocked it past goalie Malcolm Subban from the doorstep.