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Baseball

Another Cy for Santana

Johan Santana won the American League Cy Young Award on Thursday for the second time in three years, and the Minnesota Twins ace was a unanimous choice again.

Santana received all 28 first-place votes for a perfect total of 140 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Chien-Ming Wang of the New York Yankees finished a distant second with 15 second-place votes and 51 points.

Santana separated himself from all others during a dominant season, going 19-6 with a 2.77 ERA and 245 strikeouts to lead Minnesota to the A.L. Central title.

Santana also was a unanimous winner in 2004, when he was 20-6 with a 2.61 ERA and 265 strikeouts.

Colleges

GU, UW highlight graduate rates

Gonzaga tops local Division I schools and the University of Washington is best among public D-I West Coast universities for student-athlete graduate rates, according to figures released recently by the federal government and the NCAA.

The Huskies athletic department registered an 82 percent graduation success rate for classes that entered between the years 1996-1999 and graduated within six years. Gonzaga’s rate is 85 percent, fifth among all West Coast Division I schools.

Other rates include Eastern Washington (75 percent), Idaho (73 percent) and Washington State (71 percent).

College football

No more football for Mansfield

Mansfield University, which started playing football in 1891, eliminated its football program.

The university said funds had run out for the program.

Mansfield is recognized by the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind., as having hosted the first outdoor football game played at night. It was a scoreless tie in 1892 between Wyoming (Pa.) Seminary and what was then known as the Mansfield State Normal School.

Mansfield, in north-central Pennsylvania, has played football since 1891, with the exception of three years (1943-45) during World War II. The Division II school was 2-29 over the last three seasons.