PSU introduces coach Franklin

Penn State on Saturday hired

James Franklin as its next head coach. Franklin, 41, who led Vanderbilt to bowls in all three of his seasons there, replaces Bill

O’Brien, who left the Nittany Lions after two years to coach the NFL’s Houston Texans.

Franklin won 24 games with the Commodores and is a Pennsylvania native with strong ties instate. He will be asked to build off a foundation that O’Brien set amid scandal of the Jerry

Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Despite a lack of scholarships, a bowl ban and player defections from the late Joe

Paterno’s roster, O’Brien led the Nittany Lions to two winning seasons (8-4, 7-5).

For more on the Penn State football situation, see P: 38-39.

EAGLES’ JACKSON BURGLARIZED

Philadelphia police said someone broke into Eagles star receiver

DeSean Jackson’s home in South Philly earlier in the week and stole a handgun and more than $250,000 in cash and jewelry.

DUCKS ROLL ON

Hampus Lindholm scored two goals as the steamrolling Mighty

Ducks won for the 16th time in 17 games, 5-3 over the host Coyotes . Jonas Hiller made 28 saves in his 13th straight win for Anaheim, the NHL’s longest streak since Detroit’s Chris Osgood did it in 1996.

CHELSEA ON TOP FOR NOW

Chelsea moved provisionally to the top of the English Premier League by beating host Hull, 2-0, while Manchester United ended a run of three straight defeats with a 2-0 win at Old Trafford over

Swansea.

KIRK LEADS BY 1 AT SONY

A 10-foot birdie putt on the final hole gave Chris Kirk a 5-under 65 and the outright lead at 12-under 198 after three rounds of the Sony Open in Honolulu. With 12 players separated by three shots,

Harris English (67) and PGA Tour novice rookie Will Wilcox (64), were one shot behind. John

Daly matched the low round of 64 to trail by five.

LIGETY SKIS OFF

As American Ted Ligety skied out when poised to take the lead after being rocked by a rutted bump midway down,

Felix Neureuther of Germany overcame a big first-run deficit to win a World Cup giant slalom in Adelboden, Switzerland, for his second straight victory in 2014.

Before a home crowd in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Elisabeth

Goergl beat Anna Fenninger for an Austrian 1-2 finish in a women’s World Cup downhill, ending a two-year drought for the skimad nation in the sport’s fastest discipline. Julia Mancuso was the fastest American, finishing 13th for her best result of the season.

CARGO HAS SURGERY

Rockies slugger Carlos Gonzalez was recovering from an emergency appendectomy after intense stomach pain sent him to a Denver hospital Friday night.