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Bears make Marinelli defensive coordinator

Unable to find outside help, the Chicago Bears have promoted Rod Marinelli to defensive coordinator while rounding out their coaching staff.

Coach Lovie Smith announced the move Friday and called Marinelli "among the best defensive coaches in the NFL."

"From the first day I became head coach of the Chicago Bears I envisioned Rod as our defensive coordinator," he said. "I considered him for the role last year, but wanted him to have the opportunity to work exclusively with our defensive line and become acclimated to our team."

Seniors return for unfinished business

They could be getting ready for NFL training camps.

But N.C. State's Willie Young, Duke's Vince Oghobaase and Clemson's C.J. Spiller abstained from the normal post-junior-year exodus of top players to the NFL.

Their return boosted their teams' prospects for the coming season, and at the ACC media kickoff Sunday, all three said they have more to accomplish with their college teams this fall.

Search ends for Corey Smith

As the four fishing buddies huddled together in the dark, clinging to their capsized boat miles off the Florida coast, a helicopter's light shone down upon them.

For a while, as the boat drifted in the rough seas, Nick Schuyler could even see the city lights from shore. But the men drifted away as the hours passed, Schuyler told a friend after he was rescued, with the two NFL players aboard disappearing first, leaving him and his college football teammate hanging onto the hull.

"The waves were just so much. They never got a break," said Schuyler's friend, Scott Miller.

Love or hate him, Bode's back for another Olympics

Maybe it's better for Bode Miller this way. Maybe the bad boy of the Turin Olympics relishes being an afterthought this time around.

The emergence of U.S. skiing star Lindsey Vonn has allowed Miller to escape the spotlight heading into these Winter Games. No controversial interviews. No hype.

"I think I'll get some attention, but with Lindsey doing so well this year, I think I'll be more under the radar than I was in '06," Miller wrote in his online blog last week.

Hargrove's redemption helps Saints to Super Bowl

For Anthony Hargrove, heading out on the town during Super Bowl week means an afternoon trip to his old drug and alcohol recovery clinic.

The Saints' defensive lineman watched last season's Super Bowl at the Transitions Recovery Program in North Miami Beach. A year later, he has returned for all the right reasons.

"I remember always being in treatments and people coming back with these success stories and you're sitting there like, 'Man, when am I going to have my success story?'" Hargrove recalled.