Championships

RON JAWORSKI treats opportunity like a Doberman treats prime rib. So when Tim Tebow was released by the New York Jets on April 29, Jaworski took a shot by reaching out to the unemployed quarterback and offered him a roster spot with the Soul. He's still waiting for a reply. "I haven't heard back from him and I'm not going to push it," said Jaworski, one of the Soul's owners. "If he decides he wants to play Arena Football, we'll make a spot for him. " Jaworski and Soul coach Clint Dolezel sent Tebow a list of plays they had in mind for him, most were around the goal line.

The Delaware Investments U.S. Open Squash Championships are scheduled for Thursday through Oct. 12 at Drexel's Daskalakis Athletic Center. IThe event is part of the World Series of squash for both the Professional Squash Association and Women's Squash Association. Action begins at 5 p.m. Thursday with the men's   qualifying round.

  Philadelphia middleweight Jesse Hart took a tough loss in his 165-pound men's division title bout on Saturday at the USA Boxing national championships in Fort Carson, Colo., losing a decision to Cleveland's Terrell Gausha, 3-2 on a judges' poll, after the cards came up even at 34-all. Hart, the 22-year-old son of former Philly boxer Eugene "Cyclone" Hart, the 2011 national champion at 178 pounds, had advanced to the final match when he decisioned Izaak Cardona of Colorado Springs, Colo., 14-10, on Friday.

Eight area boxers won Pennsylvania State Golden Gloves championships over the weekend at the Front Street Gym. Antonio Duboise (123 pounds), of Shuler Memorial Gym; Sefaid Jihad (132), of Boyz's Dungeon; Tyrone Davis (165), of Delaware; and Marquise Dacres (201), of Fast Lane Gym, won titles in the Open Class. In the Novice Class, Mike DiPlocido (178), of Rocco's; and Servino Coffey (201-plus), of Joe Hand Boxing Gym, won championships. In the Cadets Class, Tyrone Arzeivo (114)

In 2006, Dan Fowler was a senior goalie for the Lenape boys' lacrosse team. He knows what "long-term" goals used to mean for most South Jersey boys' lacrosse programs. A division title. A conference title. Then try not to make it look so obvious when your team is fed to the North Jersey wolves in the state playoffs. "A lot of teams from this area were going to the playoffs and opening with teams who were years and years ahead of them as a program," Fowler said. Before the NJSIAA's decision to establish sectional championships in boys' lacrosse before this season, there essentially was no postseason for most of the top programs in South Jersey boys' lacrosse.

Conference Championships SUNDAY AFC: Baltimore at New England, 3 (CBS3) NFC: N.Y. Giants at San Francisco, 6:30 (Fox29) Super Bowl SUNDAY, FEB. 5 In Indianapolis Teams TBD, 6:30 (NBC10)

Emma Dahle and Kate Forrest recorded hat tricks Friday, helping Friends' Central defeat Germantown Friends, 14-11, and win the Friends Schools League girls' lacrosse championship for the fourth straight year. Ashley Tedesco added two goals and four assists and Jesse Rubin and Bianca Newton also scored twice for the Phoenix. Friends' Central goalie Aubrey Faggen made 13 saves. Annie Tyson scored a game-high six goals and Schuyler Nissen added two for host Germantown Friends. Independent Schools.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - Tiger Woods had the last word on Sergio Garcia by winning the Players Championship on Sunday. Woods ended a weekend of testy exchanges with Garcia by doing what he does best - closing out tournaments, even if he let this one turn into a tense duel over the final hour at the TPC Sawgrass. Tied with Garcia with two holes to play, Woods won by finding land on the last two holes for par to close with a 2-under-par 70. If only it had been that simple for Garcia.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - Sergio Garcia made seven straight putts - six of them for birdie - on his way to a 7-under 65 to match his best score at The Players Championship. That gave him a 1-shot lead over Tiger Woods, who again made short work of the par 5s and posted his second straight 67. Woods broke his own 36-hole record at TPC Sawgrass by 6 shots and can't find much wrong with his game at the moment. Garcia ran off five straight birdies, ending the streak with putts from 20 feet and 25 feet, and then he added a 40-foot birdie putt on the par-3 eighth.

Joe Daley uses the words lucky and phenomenal to describe his journey from credit manager to golf nomad to PGA Tour member to the oldest man ever to make his first-ever appearance in the Players Championship, which begins Thursday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Daley, 52, who was born in Chestnut Hill and graduated from Plymouth Whitemarsh High School, earned a berth in what observers like to call "golf's fifth major" by winning the 2012 Senior...

In what is billed as the largest annual rugby event in North America, 20 of the nation's top college teams will meet at PPL Park in Chester on June 1 and 2 for the USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship. Rugby sevens, which will be an Olympic sport starting in 2016, features seven players per team playing two seven-minute halves. Six local colleges will compete this year: Penn, Temple, Delaware, Penn State, St. Joseph's, and Kutztown. Also in the mix will be Arizona, California, UCLA, Dartmouth, Florida, Life University (Ga.)

Six Philadelphia-area boxers won state Golden Gloves championships and have advanced to the nationals in Salt Lake City: * Stephen Fulton, of Shuler's Gym, 114 pounds. * Vidal N. Rivera, of Camden PAL, 123 pounds. * Joshua Jones, of Shuler's Gym, 132 pounds. * Tahree Carroll, unattached, 141 pounds. * Andrew Peurifoy, Joe Hand's Gym, 201 pounds. * Marquis Dacres, Lawncrest Boxing Club, 201-plus pounds Other winners from the Eastern region are: Tyrone Arzeno, Allentown Boxing Gym, 108 pounds; Devin Williams, Erie, 152 pounds; Kyrone Davis, Wilmington, 165 pounds; Akheim Nurse, Allentown, 178 pounds.

It's time for the 119th edition of the Penn Relays, which features more than 20,000 athletes from elementary schools to Olympians to masters over 75 years old competing in 322 events from Thursday through Saturday at Franklin Field. No matter your tastes, there's something in this huge track and field buffet for everyone. Things to remember. Patience, please. Because of the bombings at the Boston Marathon, security has been intensified. Spectators are not allowed to bring backpacks, large bags (gym bags, duffel bags)

The Bowl Championship Series will be replaced by the College Football Playoff in 2014, BCS conference commissioners said Tuesday. The Rose, Sugar, and Orange Bowls will be joined by the Fiesta, Cotton, and Chick-fil-A Bowls in a six-bowl semifinal rotation, according to ESPN. James Madison gave men's basketball coach Matt Brady a four-year contract extension through 2016-17. Brady, who is from Haddon Heights, guided the Dukes to a 21-15 record, their first Colonial Athletic Association tournament title in 19 years, and their first NCAA tournament bid in the same span.

Suzann Pettersen won the LPGA Lotte Championship in Kapolei, Hawaii, beating Lizette Salas with a par on the first hole of a playoff after Salas chunked her approach shot into the water. Charley Hoffman 's quick start gave him a 2-shot lead over U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson after three rounds of the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head Island, S.C., on Saturday. Esteban Toledo , a rookie looking for his first win on the Champions Tour, has a 1-stroke lead heading into the final round of the Greater Gwinnett Championship in Duluth, Ga. Mark Warren of Scotland shot a 4-under 68 to take a 2-shot lead after the third round of the Spanish Open in Valencia, Spain.

ATLANTA - At 11:45 a.m. Monday, in a ballroom with a few hundred people, Rick Pitino was officially announced as part of the Nasimith Basketball Hall of Fame class of 2013. At 11:45 p.m., 1.5 miles away before 75,000 fans in a giant dome, Pitino became the first coach to win an NCAA championship with two schools. His Louisville team withstood an incredible offensive assault from Michigan and won, 82-76. Pitino grew up in the shadow of Madison Square Garden, was a freshman point guard at Massachusetts on a team that had a senior named Julius Erving.