Names in the Game

ATLANTA (AP) -Georgia State has a football team, and his name is Mark Hogan.

Georgia State, which will play its first season in 2010, enrolled Hogan on Monday as its first scholarship football player.

Hogan is the son of Mark Hogan Sr., who played for Georgia State coach Bill Curry at Georgia Tech in the 1980s. The younger Hogan, a 5-foot-11, 190-pound receiver and running back, graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury High School in Sudbury, Mass., last spring.

The elder Hogan was a starting safety on Georgia Tech's 1985 team that finished 9-2-1.

Curry plans to sign a full class in February, and the team will begin practicing next fall.

"This is a unique situation, being the first and only football player at Georgia State,'' Hogan said. "I am excited to get in the weight room and get stronger so I can be ready.''

Hogan said he met Curry for the first time this fall, but had heard much about him.

"I had heard a lot of stories from my father about what a great coach and great person he is,'' Hogan said. "My father was fortunate to be part of a special team at Georgia Tech, and now I have a chance to do that at Georgia State.''

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MIAMI (AP) - Less than a week after Miami's 24-17 loss to California in the Emerald Bowl, Miami's mayor is making good on his wager with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Miami Mayor Manny Diaz has decided to send Newsom some Florida stone crab claws, according to The Miami Herald.

Diaz was originally going to send his counterpart some oranges - except it's illegal.

Diaz's staff was told California law forbids distribution of Florida oranges within the state. Officials at California's Department of Food and Agriculture fear that citrus canker, which constantly threatens Florida crops, would spread there as well.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman took a moment during his second inauguration to declare Monday as "Utah Utes Day.''

Huntsman declared the unbeaten Utes "America's new No. 1'' at the end of a brief ceremony on the steps of the Capitol.

Utah was the only team in major college football to go unbeaten this season. The seventh-ranked Utes upset No. 4 Alabama 31-17 in the Sugar Bowl last week and are waiting to see where they finish in the final polls.

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ENSTONE, England (AP) - Former Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso was traveling back to Europe on Monday after being involved in a minor plane accident while on holiday.

The Renault F1 team said its star driver, who won two world titles with the team, was with his family in Kenya on Sunday when the wing of a plane they were traveling in on the ground was damaged by hitting an airport building.

None of the passengers was hurt, Renault spokeswoman Marie Hirth said.

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ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - Bode Miller, the Snow Queen.

Don't think for a moment that he wouldn't love it.

The reigning World Cup overall champion will be competing for the Snow Queen Trophy on Tuesday night in the slalom on the Sljeme hill. The event has been part of the women's World Cup calendar for many years and organizers added a men's race for the first time last season - but didn't change the event's name.

Mario Matt of Austria won that first edition and is ready to repeat his success.

"I've been very fast in training,'' Matt said Monday after inspecting the course. "I hope to perform like I did in January last year.''

Miller is ranked third with 80 points from his second-place finish in Levi, Finland, which means he has already gathered 12 slalom points more than all of last season.

The slalom Tuesday is only the third of the season after Levi and Alta Badia, Italy. A race in Val d'Isere, France, was canceled because of heavy winds.