Tout named head coach for McDonald's game

Northern Lehigh head coach Joe Tout has been named head coach of the Lehigh, Carbon, Monroe Counties team for the McDonald's Lehigh Valley All-Star Football Classic to be played on Thursday, June 23.

Former Phillipsburg High head coach Bob Stem will coach the Northampton County, Phillipsburg and Palisades team.

Super Bowl sets new record for TV viewing

For the second year in a row, the Super Bowl has set a new record for American television viewing.

The Nielsen Co. said that an estimated 111 million people watched the Green Bay Packers outlast the Pittsburgh Steelers in professional football's ultimate game. That tops the 106.5 million who watched the 2010 game between New Orleans and Indianapolis.

The series finale of "M-A-S-H" had held the title of the most-watched TV show in the United States for 27 years. It is now No. 3.

Titans hire Munchak as new head coach

The Tennessee Titans have hired Mike Munchak as the franchise's 16th head coach, deciding to promote from within to replace Jeff Fisher.

Munchak was the first man interviewed to replace Jeff Fisher and had been considered the top candidate as a favorite of team owner Bud Adams.

This will be the first head coaching job for Munchak, who turns 51 in March, with the only franchise the offensive line coach and Hall of Fame lineman has ever played or worked for since being selected eighth overall by the then-Houston Oilers in 1982.

Bruins' Savard will miss rest of season

Marc Savard will miss the rest of the season after he was placed on long-term injured reserve with his second concussion in less than a year.

Savard was injured in the Bruins' Jan. 22 game against Colorado, when he was checked into the end boards' glass by former teammate Matt Hunwick. Savard also sustained a concussion against Pittsburgh on March 7, 2010. He did not return until the second round of the playoffs and missed the first 23 games of this season.

Savard has two goals and eight assists in 25 games.