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"This is where I want to be. This is the job I want to have," Schiano said.
Schiano, Miami's defensive coordinator in 1999 and 2000, said he told Hurricanes Athletic Director Paul Dee yesterday that he was not a candidate to become their head coach. . . .
Walt Harris was fired as Stanford's coach, two days after the team finished its worst season (1-11) in more than four decades.
Harris had a 6-17 record in the first two years of his five-year contract. . . .
Louisiana Tech fired Coach Jack Bicknell following a 3-10 season.
Bicknell leaves after eight seasons and an overall record of 42-53. . . .
Mississippi linebacker Rory Johnson will pass up his senior season and enter the NFL draft, Coach Ed Orgeron said.
· AUTO RACING: International Speedway Corp. scrapped plans to build a track on Staten Island, stalling NASCAR's dream to bring a race to the New York area.
"While we are disappointed that we could not complete the speedway development on Staten Island, our enthusiasm for the metropolitan New York market is in no way dampened," ISC President Lesa France Kennedy said. "We continue to view the region as a prime location for a major motorsports facility."
· WEIGHTLIFTING: Thailand's Pawina Thongsuk set a world record at 313 pounds in the clean-and-jerk at the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.
The 27-year-old former physical education student bettered by two pounds the mark set by Russian Svetlana Shimkova earlier this year in Poland.
-- From News Services
