Hall of Fame NFL executive Beathard dies at 86

Bobby Beathard, the architect of four Super Bowl-winning teams with two different organizations during his lengthy tenure in football, has died. He was 86.

A spokesperson for the Washington Commanders said Beathard's family told the team he died Monday at his home in Franklin, Tenn., less than a week after his 86th birthday. A cause of death was not immediately available.

Beathard was director of player personnel for two of the NFL championships by Don Shula's Miami teams in the 1970s and served as general manager for two more by Joe Gibbs' Washington teams in the '80s. He also scouted for Kansas City when the Chiefs won the American Football League title and made Super Bowl I following the 1966 season and was GM with San Diego when the Chargers got there in the mid-1990s.

He was the grandfather of former 49ers quarterback C.J. Beathard.

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• Dallas head coach Mike McCarthy is set to call plays in 2023 after the club parted ways with offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, now the OC with the Chargers.

ELSEWHERE Bay Area schools add football commits

Though most players commit to schools during the earlysigning period in December, many others signed Wednesday, the official national signing day. Cal and head coach Justin Wilcox added three players, most notably Marquis Montgomery, a 6-foot-4, 215-pound wide receiver from Snow College in Utah.

Stanford and head coach Troy Taylor received commitments from six players, with two offensive linemen transferring from Ivy League schools — Alec Bank (Harvard) and Trevor Mayberry (Penn) — considered key. Each lineman has two years of eligibilty remaining.

San Jose State and head coach Brent Brennan added seven players, including two from the East Bay whose fathers had strong football careers: quarterback Jay Butterfield, a LibertyBrentwood alum who spent three seasons at Oregon and whose father, Mark, was a Stanford QB in the 1990s; and linebacker Kade Millard from Foothill-Pleasanton. His father, Keith, had a nine-year career as an NFL defensive lineman and was the league's Defensive Player of the Year in 1989. — Steve Kroner

College basketball: In men's highlights, Colin Castleton had 20 points and nine rebounds host Florida used a 13-0 run late in the second half to upend No. 2 Tennessee 67-54 . ... Mason Gillis broke the Mackey Arena record by making nine 3-pointers and finished with a career-high 29 points as No. 1 Purdue beat visiting Penn State 80-60.

• Dorka Juhasz had 19 points and 17 rebounds as No. 5 UConn held off host Providence 64-54. ... . Mackenzie Holmes scored 28 points with four blocks and Sydney Parrish added 23 points, eight rebounds and five steals to help No. 4 Indiana beat host Minnesota 77-54.