Two Penn State football players pleaded guilty Friday to a misdemeanor charge in connection with an on-campus fight last year, resolving the last of the major legal problems for current team members.Linebacker Navorro Bowman and defensive tackle Phil Taylor pleaded guilty Friday to a disorderly conduct charge in exchange for prosecutors? dropping more serious assault charges. If you are looking for Sugar Bowl Tickets or Rose Bowl Tickets you’ll find on gotickets site

?You?re never pleased to have to plead to anything,? said Taylor?s defense attorney Ron McGlaughlin. ?But from the standpoint that the matter is finally over with, I think it worked out appropriately.?

The players were sentenced to one year of probation and 100 hours of community service by Centre County Judge Bradley P. Lunsford, who gave the players a stern lecture about being role models.

Taylor, who will be a junior in the fall, and Bowman, who will be a redshirt sophomore, had been kicked off the team while their cases were pending.

Sports information director Jeff Nelson said he has not received any update that would indicate either players? status with the team had changed.

Bowman and Taylor are among a number of Penn State football players who have been charged over the last year in connection to assaults.

?A lot of kids look up to them,? McGlaughlin said, recounting Lunsford?s talk. ?When they act or engage in problems they obviously cause more problems than they realize.?

Bowman?s attorney, Stacy Parks Miller, said her client is eager to move on.

?My client?s pleased to put this behind him, get on with his life, play football again and get back to school,? Miller said.

Although authorities said more than a dozen players were seen on video surveillance near the altercation, police ultimately charged three players with beating a Philadelphia man who was attending a party at the campus student center Oct. 7.

 Lakers get a break before NBA finals

Kobe Bryant was positively giddy.

The Los Angeles Lakers star and his teammates, resplendent in caps and T-shirts honoring their Western Conference championship, were celebrating on the Staples Center floor as Jerry West spoke to the crowd.

The 70-year-old West, known as Mr. Clutch during a Hall of Fame career with the Lakers, presented his former team with the conference championship trophy following its 100-92 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night.

?I?ve seen a lot of great players in my life, but you people in L.A. are very privileged to see this young man here, Kobe Bryant. He?s something special,? West said.

?A dream come true, the answer to a prayer,? a beaming Bryant would tell the fans a few minutes later.

West was the Lakers? general manager 12 years ago when he pulled off a deal even greater than the Pau Gasol heist, acquiring Bryant from Charlotte for center Vlade Divac a couple of weeks after the NBA draft. Divac was expendable because the Lakers were about to sign free agent Shaquille O?Neal.

Kara Goucher, the world bronze medalist in the 10,000 meters, ran under the Olympic automatic qualifying standard Saturday night.Goucher finished the 10,000-meter race at Lewis and Clark College in 31 minutes, 26.48 seconds, under the ?A? standard of 31:45.

A top-three finish a the U.S. Olympic Trials and the ?A? standard are needed to secure a spot on the Olympic team.

?I think the trials will be fast enough, but I don?t want to worry about a time,? Goucher said. ?I want to go to the trials and just get in the top three and not have to worry, `Am I running fast enough???

The women?s 10,000 meters and a men?s 5,000 meter race were arranged by Goucher?s coach, Alberto Salazar. The races followed an all-star meet for high school athletes from Oregon and Washington.

Goucher?s husband, Adam Goucher, did not run in the 5,000 meters as planned because of a sore back. Galen Rupp, another Olympic hopeful, pulled out of the race with just more than two laps to go because of tenderness in his left calf.

All three athletes are part of Nike?s Oregon Project team.

Goucher plans to run next in the women?s 5,000 meters at the Prefontaine Classic on Sunday in Eugene, Ore.

Jorge Flores and Jesse Marsch scored first-half goals a minute apart, and Chivas USA beat the Columbus Crew 2-0 on Saturday night.

Both Flores and Marsch have scored in three consecutive games, and Chivas has won all three. Chivas (4-4-2) moved into a three-way tie atop the Western Conference standings.

Columbus, meanwhile, lost its second consecutive game after compiling a seven-match unbeaten streak. The Crew (6-3-1) have failed to score in their last three games.

Chivas recorded its second shutout of the season.

Flores scored his third goal of the season in the 20th minute, while Marsch collected his fourth just one minute later. In the 22nd minute, the game changed again in Chivas? favor as Crew defender Danny O?Rourke was ejected.

Chivas again received a boost from the teenage Flores. The winner of the 2007 Sueno MLS competition, an open tryout that drew some 2,000 hopefuls, Flores earned his second consecutive start. The 18-year-old scored his first career goal on May 17 against DC United and also scored at Colorado on May 24

The former Indianapolis Colts and Dallas Cowboys player who was the most accurate in NFL history and was once called an ?idiot kicker? by Peyton Manning for comments he made on Canadian TV took part in the first Toronto Argonauts practice of the season Sunday.

The day before, he signed with the team that helped propel him to stardom in 1996. More than a decade after leaving the Argos for the fame and fortune of the NFL, Vanderjagt was thrilled to be back.

?Toronto was the front-runner, regardless of what NFL team called,? said Vanderjagt, who won back-to-back Grey Cup championships in his only two full CFL seasons. ?I really wanted to come to Toronto, more than anything else.?

Vanderjagt wasn?t ready to leave the sport despite an ignominious departure from the NFL in November 2006. He was cut from the Dallas Cowboys after missing a pair of field goals against the Colts.

?When you fish and golf enough and you?re only 38 years old and you feel you can still do it,? Vanderjagt said. ?I miss the area and I miss my family and friends. It became a good opportunity, assuming Toronto wanted me, to be able to kick for a few more years.?

Vanderjagt led the NFL in scoring in 1999 and kicked 42 consecutive field goals in 2003-04, the longest streak in league history. Vanderjagt made 86.5 per cent of his field goals?tops in the NFL among kickers with at least 100 attempts?and made the Pro Bowl in 2004.

Vanderjagt also lashed out at head coach Tony Dungy and quarterback Peyton Manning following a 41-0 playoff loss to the New York Jets in 2002.