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HOUSTON (AP) — Houston has found its new football coach by promoting assistant Major Applewhite. The Cougars gained more than 500 yards 11 times and passed the 600-yard mark four times in two seasons while Applewhite was Tom Herman's offensive coordinator. Herman left Houston to become the head coach at Texas after leading the Cougars to a 22-4 record over two seasons.
METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Saints safety Kenny Vaccaro will miss the rest of the regular season after receiving a four-game suspension from the NFL for violating league policy on performance-enhancing drugs. The league did not specify which banned substance was found in Vaccaro's system. Vaccaro was in on 67 solo or assisted tackles this season and had one sack, two interceptions, two forced fumbles, a fumble recovery and eight quarterback hits.
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Oakland Raiders pass rusher Aldon Smith has met with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (guh-DEHL') an an effort to be reinstated, 13 months after he was suspended for violating the league's substance abuse policy. A person with knowledge of the meeting says Smith sat down with the commissioner and other league staff today to make his case to be allowed back on the field.
UNDATED (AP) — Dexter Fowler and the St. Louis Cardinals have worked out a five-year, $82.5 million contract. Fowler is a lifetime .268 hitter who batted .276 with 13 homers, 48 RBIs and 84 runs scored for Chicago this year. The Diamondbacks have reached terms on their one-year, $2.75 million contract with closer Fernando Rodney, and the Red Sox have finalized their one-year, $5.5 million pact with free agent first baseman Mitch Moreland
LONDON (AP) — A new report into systematic Russian doping details a wide-ranging "institutional conspiracy" that involved more than 1,000 athletes across more than 30 sports. The report includes evidence corroborating large-scale sample-swapping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren says his conclusions were based on irrefutable forensic evidence, but the Russian Sports Ministry is denying that the country had any state-sponsored doping system.
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