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Michigan State names Tucker coach

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Michigan State hired Colorado’s Mel Tucker as its new football coach Wednesday, rallying to land a veteran leader with ties to the school who decided to leave the Buffaloes after a single season.

Tucker, 48, replaces Mark Dantonio, who retired two weeks ago after 13 mostly successful seasons.

Colorado hired Tucker in December 2018 after he was Georgia defensive coordinato­r. He was given a five-year, $14.75 million contract to lead the Buffaloes and they were 5-7 last season to match the program’s record from each of the previous two years.

Tucker, who played at Wisconsin, was a graduate assistant at Michigan State under Nick Saban in the late 1990s. He also was an NFL defensive coordinato­r with the Browns, Jaguars and Bears and served as interim head coach of the Jaguars for the final five games of the 2011 season.

Colorado named assistant Darrin Chiaverini, 42, interim head coach.

Ohio State coach Ryan Day announced in a statement that he dismissed junior DBs Amir Riep and Jahsen Wint from the program after the two players were booked into jail on first-degree felony charges of rape and kidnapping.

NFL: The league reinstated Browns DE Myles Garrett from his indefinite suspension for an attack on Steelers QB Mason Rudolph last season. Garrett missed the Browns’ final six games after ripping off Rudolph’s helmet and hitting him over the head with it during a Nov. 14 game.

Soccer: The U.S. men’s team urged the U.S. Soccer Federation to triple the pay of the U.S. women. The union for the women’s team has filed a gender discrimina­tion lawsuit against the USSF that is scheduled for trial starting May 5. The men said “the federation has been working very hard to sell a false narrative to the public and even to members of Congress.” ... Iker Muniain scored to lift Athletic Bilbao to a 1-0 win over visiting Granada in the first leg of their Copa del Rey semifinal. The second leg is March 5. Real Sociedad will host second-division Mirandes in the first leg of the other semifinal Thursday.

Tennis: Top seed Daniil Medvedev of Russia fell to 104th-ranked Canadian Vasek Pospisil 6-4 6-3 victory in his first match at the Rotterdam Open.

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