Colt McCoy, Jordan Shipley semifinalists for Maxwell Award

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Texas quarterback Colt McCoy and receiver Jordan Shipley were selected Wednesday as semifinalists for the 2009 Maxwell Award, honoring college football’s player of the year.

In addition, Maxwell Football Club officials announced that Longhorns coach Mack Brown and TCU coach Gary Patterson are semifinalists for the 2009 George Munger Award, given to the coach of the year.

Among the 16 semifinalists for the Maxwell Award, three players are from colleges in Texas: McCoy, Shipley and Houston quarterback Case Keenum. Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, who has won the past two Maxwell Awards, also is a semifinalist.

— Jimmy Burch

Dallas Bowl rotation

Dallas city leaders said the Dallas Football Classic plans to use teams from the Big Ten to play teams from Conference USA and the Big 12 on a rotating basis.

The first game will pit the seventh-ranked team from the Big 12 against the sixth-ranked team from the Big Ten. Then on New Year’s Day 2012, it will be the Big Ten vs. Conference USA.

Syracuse stunned

Christopher Johnson scored 17 of his 22 points in the second half, including a 3-pointer with 8.3 seconds remaining, and Division II Le Moyne upset Syracuse 82-79 in an exhibition game late Tuesday.

If the shoe fits

A fight over the shoes Michael Jordan’s son will wear at Central Florida has cost the school any future sponsorship with adidas. In an e-mail, adidas spokeswoman Andrea Corso said the school "has chosen not to deliver on their contractual commitment to adidas," prompting the company not to continue its relationship with the school.

Freshman guard Marcus Jordan wore a pair of white Air Jordans during UCF’s exhibition game against Saint Leo on Wednesday night.

Briefly

TCU soccer: The Horned Frogs pulled within one late in Wednesday’s game, but fell to Utah 3-1 in the opening round of the Mountain West Conference Championship in Provo.

UT-Arlington women’s basketball: The Mavs were picked second in the Southland Conference coaches’ and sports information directors’ preseason polls. Tamara Simmons was a preseason first-team selection.

UT-Arlington men’s basketball: Mavericks guard Marquez Haynes was named to the Southland Conference’s preseason first team.

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