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minnesota fires brewster after 1-6 start;dungy rejects overture
MINNEAPOLIS | Tim Brewster arrived at Minnesota in 2007 promising to bring the Golden Gophers back to the Rose Bowl .
He leaves with fan apathy nearing an all-time high, having failed to capitalize on the momentum from a new stadium .
Brewster was fired Sunday, one day after the Golden Gophers lost to Purdue to fall to 1-6 in his fourth season on the sideline. He went 15-30 at Minnesota, including 6-21 in the Big Ten, and the Gophers' 28-17 loss to the Boilermakers was their sixth straight defeat.
Brewster was 0-10 in trophy games and never beat chief rivals Wisconsin or Iowa.
The Associated Press left a phone message for Brewster, who will receive a $600,000 buyout.
Meanwhile, Minnesota athletic director Joel Maturi said he contacted Minnesota alum Tony Dungy about the position. But Dungy, the former head coach at Tampa Bay and Indianapolis and currently a commentator for NBC, told him he's not interested .
Offensive coordinator Jeff Horton will serve as interim head coach the remainder of the season.
IN OTHER COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS
Arkansas confirmed on Sunday that starting quarterback Ryan Mallett suffered a concussion during the Razorbacks' loss at Auburn on Saturday.
tennis
murray defeats federer in china
SHANGHAI | Andy Murray defeated Roger Federer 6-3, 6-2 Sunday to win the Shanghai Masters for his second title of the year.
Murray broke the Swiss player's serve four times while fighting off six break points. He also had six aces to Federer's three. Murray has beaten Federer eight times in 13 meetings, including the last two.
IN OTHER TENNIS NEWS
Former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic routed Patty Schnyder 6-1, 6-2 in the final of the Generali Ladies to win her first WTA Tour title in two years and ninth overall.
Tamarine Tanasugarn beat Kimiko Date Krumm 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1 in the Japan Women's Open final , spoiling the 40-year-old Japanese player's bid to become the oldest WTA Tour singles winner.
soccer
fifa to investigate voting allegations
ZURICH | FIFA executive committee member Reynald Temarii acknowledged he made a mistake talking to undercover reporters about deals for his World Cup hosting vote.
Temarii said Sunday he met FIFA president Sepp Blatter earlier in the day to ask him to launch an ethics investigation, after the London Sunday Times filmed him saying he wanted $2.3 million to fund a soccer academy in Auckland, New Zealand.
Blatter has promised an "in-depth investigation" into allegations that Temarii, from Tahiti, and Nigerian FIFA executive member Amos Adamu offered to sell their support for the Dec. 2 vote to decide which countries will host the World Cup in 2018 and 2022.
television
dispute leaves fans in the dark
NEW YORK | Cablevision's 3 million subscribers in New York and Philadelphia missed playoff baseball and Sunday's N.Y. Giants game due to a dispute over rates between the cable provider and Fox's parent company.
Fox, owned by the News Corp., pulled its channels and programming while the sides discuss how much Cablevision will pay to carry them. The sides will meet again today.
golf
mediate holes out again, wins event
SAN MARTIN, Calif. | Rocco Mediate holed out for eagle for the fourth straight day, hitting a pitching wedge approach from 116 yards that spun back into the cup on the par-4 17th Sunday en route to a one-stroke victory over Bo Van Pelt and Alex Prugh in the Frys.com Open.
The 47-year-old Mediate won his sixth PGA Tour title and first since 2002, finishing with a 2-over 73 for a 15-under 269 total on the CordeValle course. He had a hole-in-one on the par-3 third hole Thursday, holed out from 160 yards Friday on the par-4 fourth and holed out from 111 yards Saturday on the par-5 15th hole.
IN OTHER GOLF NEWS
Richard Green shot a 65 to win the Portugal Masters , beating a group of four players by two strokes after overnight leader Pablo Martin collapsed down the stretch.
Padraig Harrington earned his first victory in two years , winning the Asian Tour's Iskandar Johor Open by three strokes over Noh Seung-yul of South Korea.
Spain's Beatriz Recari won the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge for her first LPGA Tour title, overcoming soggy conditions and a late bogey for a one-stroke victory over France's Gwladys Nocera.
college basketball
U.Va. guard to have surgery on knee
CHARLOTTESVILLE | Virginia guard Sammy Zeglinski will undergo knee surgery this week after being injured during a workout this month.
The Cavaliers announced Sunday that Zeglinski will have surgery on his left knee on Tuesday, and the junior's return will be determined by his rehabilitation .
The 6-foot-1 Zeglinski averaged 8.9 points and 3.8 rebounds per game last season.
in other news
Jeff Byrd, the longtime president and general manager of Bristol Motor Speedway, died Sunday following a lengthy illness. He was 60. Byrd had run the track since 1996.
