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Marquette’s Crean takes Indiana job

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—Indiana is turning to Tom Crean to bring respectability back to Hoosiers.

A couple dozen wins each year would help, too.

After a tumultuous season and turbulent coaching search, the Hoosiers finally hired Crean on Tuesday as what they hope will be a long-term replacement for Kelvin Sampson. Sampson resigned in February amid a phone-call scandal that included five major allegations from the NCAA.

The Hoosiers’ rabid fans hope that the tinge of NCAA allegations, the craziness that overshadowed basketball for the past six weeks and the disciplinary problems that have continued in the program will all be forgotten now. Crean is expected to be introduced at a news conference Wednesday morning.

For most Indiana fans, the changes can’t come soon enough.

Sampson’s resignation Feb. 22 led to the promotion of interim coach Dan Dakich, a threatened players boycott, and the ultimate indignity of losing four of their last seven games including a first-round NCAA game to Arkansas. The Hoosiers finished the season 25-8.

Belichick insists nothing more to come on Spygate

PALM BEACH, Fla.—Bill Belichick insists there are no new revelations to come about Spygate.

“I think they’ve addressed everything they possibly can address,” the New England Patriots coach said Tuesday.

Belichick, speaking during the AFC coaches breakfast at the NFL meetings, said he was interviewed again after the Super Bowl about allegations that former team employee Matt Walsh had illegal tapes. Those tapes presumably included a walkthrough by the St. Louis Rams on the day before the 2002 Super Bowl, a game the Patriots won.

“I’ve addressed so many questions so many times from so many people I don’t know what else the league could ask,” Belichick said.

Commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed that the NFL spoke again with Belichick and other Patriots employees after the Super Bowl loss to the New York Giants. The league has been negotiating an agreement with Walsh that it hopes will get Walsh, a golf pro in Hawaii, to come forward with what he has.

Broncos’ Cutler calls out Brandon Marshall

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.—Jay Cutler has had it with all the drama and headlines surrounding top target Brandon Marshall.

In his first offseason interview, one sprinkled with unusually blunt criticism, the Denver Broncos quarterback called out his No. 1 receiver and fellow third-year star who suffered a gash on his right forearm while horsing around last month.

“Yeah, he’s not my favorite person right now,” Cutler said. “I mean, I support him, but it’s always something with him right now.”

With Jeremy Bates taking over the Broncos’ passing game, Cutler said Tuesday that it was imperative for Marshall to participate in all the offseason workouts, but he won’t be back in action until training camp.

“We’re going to be fine. I’m not that overly concerned about it, but it just would be nice coming into our third year, coming off a big year he had last year, for him to get more work done and get more time in and just a little more trust out there,” Cutler said. “But it’s going to take some time now, maybe training camp, maybe even longer.”

Marshall, who emerged as Cutler’s primary target during a breakout 2007 season, said he was horsing around with his older brother at a resort in Orlando, Fla., when he fell into a television set, cutting an artery, a vein, a nerve, two tendons and three muscles in his right arm.