Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount, who was suspended for the season after punching a Boise State player in the wake of the season opener, has been allowed to rejoin the Ducks. The university requested Blount’s reinstatement, which was approved by Pacific-10 Conference Commissioner Larry Scott yesterday. Blount will be able to play for the No. 14 Ducks on Saturday night when they host Arizona State. He missed eight games.

RALEIGH, N.C. - Russell Wilson threw three touchdowns and ran for another, and N.C. State snapped a four-game losing streak by holding off Maryland 38-31 yesterday in a matchup of the ACC Atlantic Division’s worst teams. Wilson was 25-for-38 for 343 yards and the Wolfpack (1-4, 4-5) made just enough plays to secure their second win against a Bowl Subdivision opponent. The teams combined for 752 total yards.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—Jacory Harris threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Travis Benjamin with 1:08 left, and No. 18 Miami rallied to beat Wake Forest 28-27 yesterday. Harris threw for 330 yards and three TDs for the Hurricanes (3-2, 6-2), who trailed 27-14 going into the fourth quarter. Miami took advantage of a muffed punt to score a TD, then took its first lead when Harris directed an 82-yard scoring drive in the final minutes.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Bobby Bowden wanted to find out what his Florida State team was made of: men or mice. Trailing North Carolina 17-6 at halftime and playing badly, Bowden and his coaches tore into the Seminole players with a verbal lashing the coach said they deserved. “You are not playing up to your potential,“ Bowden recalled of the scolding. “You’ve got 30 more minutes to go out there and become a man or a mouse.“

Miami linebacker Jordan Futch will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury, a significant blow to the ninth-ranked Hurricanes. Futch was hurt in Saturday night’s win over Florida A&M. The team did not reveal which knee was injured, or the severity of the problem. He had started two games and was a special teams player. Miami also ruled cornerback Ryan Hill (shoulder, undisclosed) and defensive end Dyron Dye (left knee) out for the rest of the season.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—The chairman of the Florida State University trustees wants Bobby Bowden to retire at the end of this season. Jim Smith said yesterday the arrangement with Bowden as head coach and his designated successor, Jimbo Fisher, as offensive coordinator isn’t working. “We’ve got too many bosses out there,“ Smith said.

The season’s first month was a clear success for Miami, with three wins over nationally ranked teams and plenty of reasons to believe the Hurricanes are on the cusp of rejoining the nation’s elite. For that, Randy Shannon may be on the verge of being rewarded handsomely. After No. 11 Miami beat Oklahoma 21-20 for the program’s most significant win in several years Saturday night, Hurricanes Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt reaffirmed that the university has no intentions of letting Shannon slip away. Shannon’s contract expires after the 2010 season, but formal talks about an extension haven’t yet taken place.

Bobby Bowden knows missed tackles, fumbles or superior opponents could send the Florida State Seminoles to defeat. But he never thought a course in music history would cost him so many victories. In the fall of 2006 and spring and summer of 2007, 61 Florida State athletes from 10 sports cheated in their course work. Twenty-five were football players.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida State said it’s unfair to take wins off the individual records of football coach Bobby Bowden and other coaches and athletes who had no role in an academic cheating scandal. In an appeal to the NCAA yesterday, the university argued that a proposal to strip the school, its coaches and athletes of victories in several sports is too harsh and should be reversed.

Duke wins its ninth ACC championship in 12 years.

Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg remained defiant after yesterday’s 63-53 loss at No. 24 Florida State—a result all but assured by the Hokies’ worst shooting performance in 40 games. But even as Greenberg tried to keep his players upbeat in the locker room afteward, he had to know time is running out on their push for an NCAA tournament at-large bid.

BLACKSBURG This was it, the last shot, Hank Thorns’ final fling with basketball, the sport he loved so much. About two weeks had passed since college basketball’s signing day in mid-April 2007, and Thorns, a high school senior, still held just two scholarship offers, from New Hampshire and Old Dominion. He decided to play in a summer-league tournament in his hometown, Las Vegas. Try one more time to impress some people, he figured, and then he’d give up basketball to play football in college. He said he had interest from Oregon State, Nevada-Las Vegas, Utah and Utah State.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida State may have to forfeit some of coach Bobby Bowden’s 382 wins and will be on probation for the next four years as part of its punishment for a widespread academic cheating scandal. The Seminoles will have to give up two scholarships this recruiting season and one the following year. Other sports will lose scholarships and victories - including three NCAA national championships in track and field - are threatened.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Florida State may have to forfeit some of coach Bobby Bowden’s 382 wins and will be on probation for the next four years as part of its punishment for a widespread academic cheating scandal. The Seminoles will have to give up two scholarships this recruiting season and one the following year. Other sports will lose scholarships and have victories—including three NCAA national championships in track and field—threatened.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Florida State has been put on four years’ probation by the NCAA and will lose scholarships in football and forfeit games because of an academic cheating scandal. The NCAA infractions committee says Friday the case was “extremely serious” because of the large number of student-athletes involved in various sports. Academic fraud is considered among the most egregious of NCAA rules violations.