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Miami Hurricanes junior safety Anthony Reddick underwent successful surgery Monday to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and will likely miss the entire 2007 season.

The surgery was performed by Dr. John Uribe at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables. Reddick will begin rehabilitation immediately.

Reddick has had a turbulent career in Miami. In 2004, he was named to the All-ACC freshman team. He finished that season with 73 tackles, one sack and one interception.

Reddick then missed nearly the entire 2005 campaign after tearing his right ACL in the second quarter of the Hurricanes’ season opener against Florida State. He registered six tackles before suffering the injury.

In 2006, Reddick was one of several players suspended for a sideline-clearing brawl with Florida International. He missed four games after video showed him swinging his helmet during the melee.

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Three players have been booted from the LSU program this past week.

Freshman defensive back Troy Giddens, freshman offensive lineman Zhamal Thomas and sophomore offensive lineman Kyle Anderson were dismissed for unbecoming conduct, the university said.

“There is a standard that we insist upon with members of our football team when representing this university, our community and the state of Louisiana,” coach Les Miles said in a statement. “When that standard isn’t met some adjustments must be made.”

LSU refused to say what the students had done.

However, both Giddens, 19, and Thomas, 20, were arrested last week, accused of breaking into a campus apartment, stealing a backpack that held money and credit cards and using a stolen credit card to buy more than $200 worth of items online. Each player was booked with simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling and identity theft.

Anderson, 20, meanwhile, was booked early Monday with second-degree battery after getting into a fight at a popular campus hangout.

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The annual football game between the University of Oklahoma and University of Texas will be played at the Cotton Bowl at least through 2015, Dallas city officials announced.

Although a formal contract has not been signed, an agreement is in place between the schools, the city and the State Fair of Texas, said Meranda Cohn, chief of staff for Dallas Mayor Laura Miller. The Dallas City Council must also approve the contract.

Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione said he was pleased all sides agreed to keep the game at the Cotton Bowl.

The teams have played in Dallas every year since 1929, but it was unclear in recent months if the organizers of the annual game would leave for another venue after the current agreement ran out after the 2010 game. In February, Cotton Bowl officials announced that in 2010 they were moving the New Year’s Day bowl game to the Arlington, Texas, site of the Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium, set to open in 2009.

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