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For sheer volume, this must be the true Home of the Pop-top Can Tab. Here at Maple Shade's Maude Wilkins Elementary School, counting the light- weight metallic nubbins by the tens of thousands is a daily vocation. For the record, the unofficial tally stands this morning at a promising 949,975. The goal? One million by May. Only 50,025 to go. At Wilkins, the crazy idea of twisting the openers off aluminum soda cans and beer cans and even certain cat food cans for two years, of counting them up and stashing them away in every conceivable corner, has become a mission with universal mystique.

Rashad Campbell could have stayed local and chosen Penn, but the Chestnut Hill Academy football star has decided to play for one of the Quakers' Ivy League rivals. He has orally committed to Cornell. "There were so many things I liked about Cornell," Campbell said. "With Penn, I just felt the recruiting process was developing slower than I had hoped. Plus, I didn't think I wanted to go to school that close to home. " The 5-foot-8, 172-pound Campbell starred at running back and cornerback for Chestnut Hill.

Saint Joseph's head coach Phil Martelli will serve as a guest studio analyst tomorrow and Sunday for the NCAA Tournament. He will work on the Atlanta studio team with host Matt Winer and analysts Seth Davis and Steve Smith, for games on CBS, TNT, Turner and TruTV.   Women win in WNIT   Michelle Baker scored 19 points to lead Saint Joseph's past Virginia Commonwealth, 72-66 in women's NIT action last night at Hagan Arena. Samira van Grinsven added 12 points for the Hawks (20-11)

COLLEGE basketball coaches Pat Summitt (Tennessee women) and Mike Krzyzewski (Duke men) were selected yesterday as Sports Illustrated's sportswoman and sportsman of the year. Summitt, who announced in August she had been diagnosed with early onset dementia, earned her 1,075th career victory Sunday. Krzyzewski passed Bob Knight as winningest men's coach on Nov. 15. In other college news: * Quarterbacks Robert Griffin III (Baylor) and Andrew Luck (Stanford)

While it was tempting to choose Harvard, especially because of its academic reputation, Archbishop Wood's Frank Taylor said he couldn't pass up the chance to play Division I-A football. The 6-foot-3, 285-pound junior, a top offensive tackle, committed to play for Boston College on Wednesday afternoon at a news conference in the school's auditorium. "I could have gone to Harvard, but it's been a dream of mine to pursue college football at the highest level," said Taylor, 17. "Boston College is a school that offers both worlds.

Mike Lieberthal relaxed Friday on a couch in the visitors' clubhouse at AT&T Park, where the conversation eventually and naturally turned to the Phillies. "Kyle Kendrick is pitching tonight, right?" he said. Lieberthal often catches the Phillies on TV before the Los Angeles Dodgers play on the West Coast. His affinity for the Phillies has prompted teammate Luis Gonzalez to joke on more than one occasion: "Come on, Lieby. Cut the cord. " Lieberthal spent 13 seasons with the Phillies before he signed a contract in the off-season with his hometown Dodgers.

Former Audubon and Old Dominion star John Oehler has been named the baseball coach at Gloucester. Oehler replaces Kevin Fahy, who resigned at the end of last season. Oehler played for coach Rich Horan at Audubon and helped the Green Wave win the Group 2 state title in 1998. He was an All-South Jersey selection as a senior catcher in 1999, when he batted .492 with eight home runs. Oehler was an assistant baseball coach at Pennsville last season. He is a physical education teacher at Pennsville High School.

Two local basketball stars committed to Division I schools in the last two days. Roman Catholic's Rakeem Brookins will attend Tulane University, and Frankford's Shaquille Duncan is headed to Niagara University. Brookins committed to Tulane late Tuesday night, and Green Wave coach Dave Dickerson flew up to congratulate his newest player in person yesterday. Roman Catholic coach Chris McNesby said Tulane had recruited Brookins hard since seeing him at the Reebok U camp at Philadelphia University in early July.

THE ARIZONA Cardinals filled the NFL's final head-coaching vacancy by hiring Indianapolis offensive coordinator Bruce Arians. The team confirmed the hiring in a release Thursday night, saying Arians received a 4-year contract with a club option for a fifth year. The 60-year-old Arians, a longtime NFL assistant who was Temple's head coach from 1983 to '88, went 9-3 as Colts interim head coach while Chuck Pagano was undergoing treatment for leukemia this season. Arians arrived in Arizona on Wednesday night, had dinner with top team officials, then interviewed on Thursday and met with reporters to indicate his interest in the job. He was offered and accepted the job Thursday night.

MARK SANCHEZ is no longer the New York Jets' franchise quarterback. He might not even be the backup. Rex Ryan decided to bench Sanchez on Tuesday in favor of Greg McElroy after the fourth-year quarterback had another miserable performance in a 14-10 loss at Tennessee on Monday night that eliminated the Jets from playoff contention. "I think it's best for our team, and for this game," Ryan said during a conference call. So, it'll be McElroy under center for his first NFL start when the Jets (6-8)

Meghan Malloy says that sometimes a cross-country race will end and she won't be sure how well she has run. "Sometimes, it just seems to go by so fast," Malloy said. Malloy finally got a chance to step back and appreciate her accomplishments at the end of her senior season. She had to concede that she enjoyed the view. Malloy, the Haddonfield senior who led the Bulldogs to a sectional title, was named South Jersey's cross-country Runner of the Year by the South Jersey Track Coaches Association.

The Haverford Township teenager told the court he was positive of one thing: He looked both ways when he crossed a busy Delaware County street the night he was struck by an SUV driven by an assistant district attorney. Jake Vantrieste, now 15, suffered a broken leg and pelvis and had bleeding on his brain as a result of the incident on Nov. 4, 2011. Michael Donohue, 32, who prosecutors say left the scene, is charged with aggravated assault and related crimes. A former waitress at Sligo, a pub in Media, testified on Tuesday that Donohue ran up bar tabs totaling $120 that night.

A former pub waitress testified Tuesday that a Delaware County assistant district attorney ran two bar tabs totaling $120 the night he allegedly struck a teen with an SUV. Michael Donohue, 32, is charged with aggravated assault, an accident involving personal injury and other related crimes. Prosecutors say he allegedly hit the teen the night of Nov. 4, 2011, then left the scene with the boy seriously injured in the road. In addition to the waitress's testimony, eight members of the district attorney's office, a state trooper and a County Park Police officer also took the stand to testify in the case.

Springside Chestnut Hill Academy has turned to Chris Lubanski, a former standout at Kennedy-Kenrick, to be its new baseball coach. In 2003, Lubanski, a hard-hitting and speedy outfielder, was named Gatorade's national high school player of the year and was selected by the Kansas City Royals with the fifth pick in the first round of the amateur draft. His eight-year, minor-league career included a 2010 stint with the Las Vegas 51s, then the Toronto Blue Jays' triple-A affiliate in the Pacific Coast League.

MAYOR NUTTER is in Charlotte, N.C., this week for the Democratic National Convention, where he will be a prime-time speaker Wednesday. He's not alone. More than 50 members of the Philadelphia Police Department and two mayoral aides are in Charlotte, too. Nutter is paying for his travel and lodging from his political-action committee. The city is picking up the tab for the two staffers, Lauren Walker and Tumar Alexander , along with three members of the mayor's police detail.

With President Obama making his way to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this week to accept his party's nomination for a second term, few other places on Earth are swarming with as much security per square foot. But that hasn't deterred Mayor Nutter from taking three Philadelphia police officers to Charlotte for his own security detail, along with two civilian aides - Lauren Walker, a $65,000-a-year special assistant who will accompany the mayor to virtually every event on a crowded convention schedule, and Tumar Alexander, a $118,000-a-year deputy chief of staff and the mayor's top liaison to the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

NEW YORK - As the Big East prepares to negotiate a television contract that could make or break the conference, it has chosen a man who has been part of some of the biggest media rights deals in college sports to be its new commissioner. The Big East on Tuesday hired CBS executive vice president Mike Aresco as it continues to rebuild from a tumultuous year of defections. "I'm not daunted by it all. I embrace the challenge," Aresco told the Associated Press in a telephone interview.

Question: I tried to make a hotel reservation in London, Ontario, through Priceline. The site displayed three tabs. The first two tabs displayed the correct city, but when I switched to the "best deal" tab it automatically switched to London, UK. Unfortunately, at the time I did not realize that it had switched on me, and it found a nonrefundable hotel room in the wrong London. You can imagine my disappointment. I contacted customer service, but they wouldn't refund the room.