Stanford Hires Pitt's Walt Harris
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Pittsburgh's Walt Harris was hired as Stanford's new football coach Sunday, giving the Cardinal the offensive-minded leader they sought to replace Buddy Teevens.
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Florida linebacker Travis Harris last played in the Georgia Dome as a freshman in 2000, when the Gators beat Alabama in the Southeastern Conference championship game.
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Stanford opened the football season full of optimism based on a renovated stadium, an offense that returned nearly intact and progress that was made in Walt Harris' first year as head coach.
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Kay-Jay Harris still needs to prove to West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez that he deserves to be the Mountaineers&#39; starting running back -- even after a record-setting performance in the season opener.
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Wade Phillips was hired Thursday to coach the Dallas Cowboys, providing the club with an experienced replacement for Bill Parcells and an expert in the 3-4 defense.
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Charlie Weis was hired Sunday night to coach football at Notre Dame, the school the New England Patriots' offensive coordinator graduated from and where this season's 6-5 record led to the firing of Tyrone Willingham.
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Microsoft has tapped a former executive at Walt Disney to fill its CIO position, a move that shows the company continuing to fill top executive positions from outside the company.Tony Scott, who most recently was CIO at Walt Disney, will take over that same role at Microsoft in February, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. Scott, who also will be a corporate vice president at Microsoft, replaces Stuart Scott, who&#160;departed the company in November. The two are not related.Scott will manage Microsoft&#39;s 4,000-person IT organization, which is responsible for all of the technology systems supporting the company&#39;s worldwide sales, marketing, and services operations, as well as the enterprise systems and applications for all corporate processes.At Disney, where he was senior vice president in addition to CIO, Scott was the first CIO to manage the entire company&#39;s IT systems, according to Microsoft. Prior to Disney, Scott was CTO at General Motors and vice president of operations at Bristol-Meyers Squibb.There are a lot of new faces in the ranks of upper management at Microsoft, with a rash of them signing on to the company in the last six months. Just last week Microsoft revealed that company veteran Jeff Raikes, president of its Business Division, will&#160;leave the company in September. The company tapped an outside executive -- former Juniper Networks, Macromedia, and Adobe executive Stephen Elop -- to fill that role.Other new hires to the company since last July include: Dan Reed, Microsoft Research director of scalable and multicore computing in November; Robert Youngjohns, president of North American sales and marketing and corporate vice president in November; Brian McAndrews, senior vice president, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group in August; and Don Mattick, senior vice president, Interactive Entertainment Business in July.There is likely more new blood to come as Microsoft also confirmed last week several other executive departures: Bruce Jaffe, corporate vice president of corporate development; Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft&#39;s general manager of platform strategy; and&#160;Rob Short, corporate vice president of the Windows Core Technology group.Apart from CEO Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft&#39;s entertainment and devices division, many of the company&#39;s other top executives have joined the company in the past three years. They include the man widely seen as Gates&#39; successor, Chief Architect Ray Ozzie, who joined Microsoft in 2005. Kevin Turner, Microsoft&#39;s chief operating officer, and Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Online Services Group, also joined the company that year.
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Red Sox owner John W. Henry has heard the speculation that pitching coach John Farrell will become manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. While appreciating the high regard for Farrell around baseball, Henry hopes he remains here.
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Urban Meyer of Utah and Walt Harris of Pittsburgh will coach the final game at their respective schools in the Fiesta Bowl on Saturday night before moving on to new jobs.
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The Mavericks acquired Harris, the fifth overall pick in the draft, to eventually replace Steve Nash as the leader of their fast-paced offense.
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More than three decades after captaining the Panthersâ 1973 Fiesta Bowl team, Wannstedt was named the new head football coach at the University of Pittsburgh today by Athletic Director Jeff Long.
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Stanford football coach Buddy Teevens was fired after three straight losing seasons, an athletic department source said Monday on condition of anonymity.
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Charlie Weis landed Tyrone Willingham's old job at Notre Dame. Walt Harris was tapped to take over at Stanford, where Willingham led the Cardinal to the 2000 Rose Bowl.
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Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) - Former Miami Dolphins head coach Dave Wannstedt is reportedly heading to Pittsburgh to take the vacancy at his alma mater.
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The former Miami Dolphins coach Dave Wannstedt has accepted the head coaching job at the University of Pittsburgh, as a late change of heart ended up in a whirlwind 24 hours, it was disclosed today.
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Linebacker Napoleon Harris, who went from Oakland to Minnesota in the Randy Moss trade, signed a six-year contract Tuesday with the Kansas City Chiefs.
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By Henry J. Holcomb, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 10--The Philadelphia lawyer who helped Hewlett-Packard Co. navigate its boardroom spying scandal last year is moving to California to become the company's executive vice president and general counsel.   Michael J.