Danica Patrick, NASCAR, Big Ten Addition, Maxwell Award Finalists & NHL Lockout Update: 11/20, Vol. 274, 3rd Edition

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Danica Patrick is Nationwide Series
               most popular driver for 2012

            For your Quick News & Notes, former unified featherweight titleholder Yuriorkis Gamboa got a new opponent in Michael Farenas on Monday for his first fight in 15 months and they will tangle in a 130-pound non-title bout in the co-feature on the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez IV undercard on December 8 on HBO Pay Per View at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, after finishing 10th in the 2012 Nationwide standings, which is the best championship showing for a female driver in one of NASCAR's top three touring series, Danica Patrick was voted the series' Most Popular Driver in a fan vote, Elliott Sadler, who is leaving Richard Childress Racing, will drive a full Nationwide Series schedule for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2013, team president J.D. Gibbs confirmed Monday, Patrick Ewing, Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, Phil Ford, Clyde Lovellette, Kenny Sailors and Willis Reed, coaches Joe B. Hall and Dave Robbins and contributors Jim Host and Joe Dean Sr. were all inducted  in 2012 National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, North Carolina and Louisville have agreed to play in the 2013 Hall of Fame Tip-Off tournament, Saint Louis men's basketball coach Rick Majerus, who is 64, will not return to the team because of a serious heart condition and Jim Crews will be the interim coach, Boise State.

Maryland bolting the ACC
              to the Big Ten

            The University of Maryland's Board of Regents voted Monday to accept an invitation to join the Big Ten and begin competition in the conference in the 2014-15 academic year, Big East Conference sources told ESPN that Rutgers will be announced as the 14th member of the Big Ten on today, San Diego State and BYU have had conversations with Mountain West membership about the possibility of returning to the league, sources told ESPN, Miami officials said Monday that the university is making what it called an "unprecedented decision" to self-impose a postseason ban for the second straight year, ending any chance of the Hurricanes playing in either the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game or a bowl, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein and Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel are finalists for the Maxwell Award as the nation's best all-around player and will be announced at the Home Depot College Football Awards next month on ESPN, a day after A. J. Barker, Minnesota’s leading receiver quit the team after alleging abuse, coach Jerry Kill defended a forceful rebuke saying he had to discipline the player for a confrontation with the team's training staff, senior defensive end Brandon Jenkins said the past three months rehabbing a broken foot have provided ample time to think about his future, and Monday he informed Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher he was ready to enter the NFL draft, the NHL and NHLPA resumed discussions on Monday night on key topics such as player contracting rights and core economics, and afterwards, the league requested a formal proposal from the union, Ichiro Suzuki told Japanese baseball officials on Monday he has decided not to take part in next year's World Baseball Classic, and finally, the San Diego Padres have exercised the 2014 and 2015 option years in manager Bud Black's contract.

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