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ic Final Tennessee kicks Richardson off team The ex-Pahokee standout faces a felony robbery charge, 4C NHL Panthers finally denied The Kings rally and defeat host Florida 4-3 in a shootout, 3C HIGH SCHOOLS Girls basketball preview Trinity Christian seeks second title in three seasons, 5C The Palm Beach Post TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2009 LATE MONDAY: RAVENS AT BROWNS DOLPHINS AT PANTHERS, 8:20 THURSDAY, NFL NETWORK, WPEC BROWN'S STATUS UNCERTAIN CLUELESS CALL OUT OF CHARACTER MAGENTA BLACK The Dolphins will say today if their leading rusher will play Thursday. Genius Pats coach Bill Belichick proves he is human after all. You were looking, maybe, for a chink in the armor of the AFC East-leading New England Patriots? Bill Belich ick just took an acetylene torch and opened a hole big enough to fully expose the 1 tage over everybody else. fA I'm talking about the head coach brain, which normally runs fast enough to outscheme other NFL Dave George BY CARLOS FRIAS Palm Beach Post Staff Writer DAVIE Dolphins running back Ronnie Brown made a quick move and was gone before anyone could catch him. And that was on crutches.

Brown, who injured his right foot against Tampa Bay on Sunday, made a cameo appearance in the locker room Monday sporting a black Sparano track suit and crutches, but stands behind did not take questions about veteran the severity of his injury. LB Porter, 7C Brown, who did not practice, tossed a pair of Crocs a few feet toward his locker from the doorway of the training room and then ducked back inside. Coach Tony Sparano said the team would not say until today whether Brown would be available for Thursday's game at See DOLPHINS, 7C i teams while simultaneously beating the IBM computer at chess and devising new spying technologies for the CIA. Belichick proved on Sunday night, however, that he can be just as boneheaded as the rest of us. By going for it and failing on fourth-and-2 at the New England 28-yard line, he opened the door for a cakewalk of See GEORGE, 7C NAM Y.

HUHThe Associated Press Bill Belichick walks off the field a loser Sunday night after his Patriots failed to convert a fourth-and-2. ALLEN EYESTONEStaff Photographer Dolphins running back Ronnie Brown, who is now on crutches, checks his injured right foot in Sunday's game. Coghlan voted NL Rookie of the ear Royal re -opening The King' -Arnold Palmer helps christen the redesigned course layout His second-half hitting was some of the best in years. By TOM D'ANGELO Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Chris Coghlan returned to his home in Tarpon Springs Monday empty handed from a two-week hunting trip to Kansas. But the Marlins left fielder then ft? bagged a trophy bigger than any potential deer on Monday when he was named the National League Rookie of the Year.

Coghlan, 24, beat out runner-up J.A. Happ of Philadelphia and third-place finisher Tommy Hanson Coghlan Is the third Marlin to win award of Atlanta, both pitchers, in becoming the third Marlins player to win the award. He joins pitcher Dontrelle Willis in 2003 and shortstop Han-ley Ramirez in 2006. Coghlan received 17 first-place votes, six seconds and two thirds See MARLINS, 4C RICHARD GRAULICHStaff Photographer Arnold Palmer strikes the ceremonial first shot during Monday's re-opening ceremonies. He won a PGA Tour event here 50 years ago.

'Hockey' duo takes control of Panthers WEST PALM BEACH The man couldn't get out of the grill room, which, by the way, now happens to bear his name. It was that kind of morning for Arnold Palmer, who was surrounded by well-wishers and autograph-seekers as the headliner of a Alan Cohen steps aside to let Boca Raton men run the team. celebration to mark the re-opening of refurbished West Palm Beach Municipal Golf Course. That's where Palmer won the West Palm Beach Open on the PGA Tour in 1959. On Monday, he received a key to the city and listened to a proclamation decreeing Arnold Palmer Day.

What's a half-century among Greg Stoda By BRIAN BIGGANE Palm Beach Post Staff Writer SUNRISE No member of the Panthers' ownership group has taken more interest in the on-ice product in recent years than Cliff Viner. No member of that same group has a more impressive hockey background than Stu Siegel. Former managing partner Alan Cohen's desire to decrease his involvement with the franchise created an opportunity that Viner and Siegel grabbed onto Monday when the pair was announced as co-general partners of the 16-year-old NHL franchise. Viner, 61, becomes chairman and alternate governor. Siegel, 43, will be CEONHL Governor.

See PANTHERS, 3C friends? "I remember beating Pete Cooper in a playoff," Palmer said. "He was a great putter on Bermuda greens, and had given me a lesson." At the time, Palmer was only beginning to make his mark on the game. He had won the Masters in 1958, his first of four triumphs at Augusta National and the first of his seven major championships. He was golf's emerging star. "If I've done anything to help make golf what it is, I appreciate it, Palmer said Monday.

He was precisely the kind of athlete and en- RICHARD GRAULICHStaff Photographer Arnold Palmer salutes his Army of ever-loyal fans. He won the West Palm Beach Open on the municipal course in 1959. See STODA, 4C.