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Briefs: Rebellion hire coaches

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The Pennsylvania Rebellion, which will play its home games at Consol Energy Field, has added three assistants to head coach Rick Bertagnolli’s staff.

Stephani Moore, an assistant coach at California University under Bertagnolli, Stacey Rice, an assistant coach at Slippery Rock, and Jaime Wolbach, the head coach at the University of Delaware, will fill out the Rebellion’s initial staff.

The Rebellion will begin play in the Women’s Professional Fastpitch Softball League this year.

The Washington Wild Things on Friday made a number of moves Friday, signing outfielder Stewart Ijames and pitchers Zach LeBarron and Chris Phelan.

Ijames, a Frontier League All-Star, batted .297 with 16 homers and 45 RBI in his first season with the Wild Things in 2013.

LeBarron, a right-hander, signed with the Wild Things last June. He went 3-2 with a 3.98 ERA in five starts.

Phelan was with league-champion Schaumburg in 2013 and pitched Game 1 of the Championship Series. The righty had a 7-2 record with a 2.20 ERA in 15 starts for the Boomers.

The Wild Things also renewed the contracts of catchers Maxx Garrett and Michael Allen and pitchers Matt Phillips and Zach Flashman.

Washington also signed three players from the Domincan Republic: pitcher Julio Perez, infielder Yuery Tejada and outfielder Marianio Guzman.

Steelers Pro Bowl wide receiver Antonio Brown restructured his contract with the team, clearning nearly $4 million in salary cap space.

Brown took $5.2 million of his $6 million 2014 salary in the form of a signing bonus, allowing the Steelers to move to $3.5 million under the NFL’s $133 million salary cap.

The $5.2 million will now be spread over the remainder of his deal, which runs through 2017.

All NFL teams must be under the salary cap by 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Coming off of a 7-4 season that ended with a loss in the ECAC North West Bowl, Waynesburg University released its 2014 football schedule Friday.

The Yellow Jackets open at home against Muskingum Sept. 6 before hosting Saint Vincent the following week in another non-conference matchup.

Because of the additions of Case Western Reserve and Carnegie Mellon as football-only schools to the PAC, the result of the game against Saint Vincent will not be counted towards Waynesburg’s conference record, even though the Bearcats are members of the PAC.

Waynesburg will begin its conference schedule at home Sept. 20 against Geneva.

For the third-straight season, the Yellow Jackets will have a week off before facing the defending PAC champion Washington & Jefferson at home on Nov. 15.

Former Tennessee football star and coach Johnny Majors is in stable condition at the University of Tennessee Medical Center after a heart valve procedure.

UT Medical Center spokesman Jim Ragonese sent an email to the Knoxville News-Sentinel on Friday saying the 78-year-old Majors had a heart valve procedure Thursday. A hospital nursing supervisor who didn’t give her name told The Associated Press on Friday night that Majors was in stable condition.

Majors played at Tennessee from 1954-56, finishing second in Heisman Trophy voting as a senior. He went 185-137-10 as a coach at Iowa State (1968-72), Pittsburgh (1973-76, 1993-96) and Tennessee (1977-92), leading Pittsburgh to the 1976 national title. He entered the College Football Hall of Fame in 1987.

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