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'Nova's Reid finalist for top female athlete

Sheila Reid, the Villanova cross country and track standout, was named a finalist for the Collegiate Female Athlete of the Year award, along with Penn State volleyball player Blair Brown and Connecticut basketball star Maya Moore.

Villanova's Sheila Reid won the 5,000-meter and 1,500-meter titles at the NCAA championships. (Charlie Neibergall/AP)
Villanova's Sheila Reid won the 5,000-meter and 1,500-meter titles at the NCAA championships. (Charlie Neibergall/AP)Read more

Sheila Reid, the Villanova cross country and track standout, was named a finalist for the Collegiate Female Athlete of the Year award, along with Penn State volleyball player Blair Brown and Connecticut basketball star Maya Moore.

They were chosen from among the 12 winners of the Honda Awards for excellence in academics and sports.

Reid was the NCAA outdoor champ at 1,500 and 5,000 meters, becoming the first woman to win both events in the same year.

Brown helped the Nittany Lions win their fourth straight NCAA title, registering 18 kills in the championship game.

Moore led UConn to four straight Final Four appearances and two NCAA titles in her college career.

The Honda-Broderick Cup will be awarded Monday at Columbia University in New York.

In other Philly File news:

* Villanova basketball assistant coach Keith Urgo has been named an assistant coach under Pat Chambers at Penn State. Urgo has spent the last four seasons at Villanova, working with Chambers for two of them.

Hockey

* The New York Islanders are one step closer to getting a long-awaited new arena. Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano and Islanders owner Charles Wang announced a lease agreement that would keep the NHL team on Long Island if voters approve the replacement of the aging Nassau Coliseum in an Aug. 1 vote. Construction costs for the arena are estimated at $350 million. The agreement guarantees county taxpayers 11.5 percent of dollars generated at the new arena from all events, not just hockey-related ones.

* Former Calgary Flames part-owner Harley Hotchkiss, a Hockey Hall of Famer, died of prostate cancer at 83. Hotchkiss, who served as chairman of the NHL's board of governors from 1995-2007, sold his minority stake in the Flames this season.

* Police in Greece say 10 people have been arrested as part of a match-fixing probe based on irregular betting patterns identified by European football's ruling body UEFA.

Colleges

* Kevin Broadus is returning to the Georgetown basketball staff, landing a job as a "special assistant" after his tempestuous departure from Binghamton. Broadus has his contract bought out by Binghamton in October, a year after he was suspended by the school. Broadus led the Bearcats to their first NCAA tournament berth in 2009, but one of his players was arrested on drug charges and five other players were dismissed for violations. A review found Broadus circumvented standards to get a player enrolled and lobbied for a player's grade to be changed. Broadus was previously an assistant at Georgetown from 2004-07.

* Iowa athletics officials were collecting details about the types of free cars some coaches and employees drive after acknowledging they did not have up-to-date information in some cases. The university released data Tuesday showing that at least 57 coaches, assistant coaches, spouses and athletics department employees ranging from fundraisers to the travel coordinator drive vehicles donated by car dealers.

Soccer

* U.S. forward Jozy Altidore will miss the rest of the Gold Cup due to a strained hamstring. Altidore will be sidelined for 4 to 6 weeks.

* Clint Dempsey scored in the 77th minute off an assist from Landon Donovan, and the United States advanced to the Gold Cup final with a 1-0 victory over Panama in Houston. The U.S. team will play Mexico, which beat Honduras, 2-0, last night, for the championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday at 9 p.m.