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Owls, Nits on Hall ballot

FORMER TEMPLE running back Paul Palmer and former Penn State running back D.J. Dozier and guard Steve Wisniewski are among 76 candidates on the ballot for the College Football Hall of Fame. Temple's Wayne Hardin is among eight coaching candidates.

FORMER TEMPLE running back

Paul Palmer

and former Penn State running back

D.J. Dozier

and guard

Steve Wisniewski

are among 76 candidates on the ballot for the College Football Hall of Fame. Temple's

Wayne Hardin

is among eight coaching candidates.

The Football Bowl Subdivision ballot was mailed this week to more than 12,000 National Football Foundation members and current Hall of Famers. The 2012 class will be announced May 15 and inducted Dec. 4.

In other college news:

* Penn State dismissed freshman defensive end Shawn Oakman due to a violation of team rules.

* Texas A & M and Missouri agreed to pay $12.4 million each to leave the Big 12 and join the Southeastern Conference in July.

* Texas Tech football coach Tommy Tuberville was sued in federal court, accused of defrauding investors out of more than $1.7 million in Alabama.

* North Carolina State linebacker D.J. Green says the NCAA has suspended him for the season after he tested positive for using an unnamed banned substance.

Sport Stops * 

The WBC suspended British heavyweight

Dereck Chisora

indefinitely following his brawl with former WBA champ

David Haye

after a title fight against

Vitali Klitschko

in Germany.

* Trainer Todd Pletcher says Kentucky Derby hopeful Algorithms is off the Triple Crown trail because of a leg injury that will require surgery. Algorithms was the morning-line favorite for the Fountain of Youth Stakes last weekend at Gulfstream Park. He was scratched before the race with a splint bone injury to his right front leg.

* Former pro wrestler John Levi Miller, 23, sued his opponent and the Indiana-based promoter who arranged their bout last year, claiming his foe was supposed to lose their match but kicked him so hard in the crotch that one of his testicles ruptured and had to be removed.

* Agent Mark Steinberg lashed out against Hank Haney's book about his 6 years as Tiger Woods' swing coach, saying his "armchair psychology" about Woods was "ridiculous" and that it was clear Woods' former swing coach only cares about self-promotion. "The Big Miss," which goes on sale March 27, is being excerpted by Golf Digest on its website.