Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart of Southern California will be back in New York on Saturday, along with Texas quarterback Vince Young, when the Heisman Trophy is awarded.

The Downtown Athletic Club, which hands out college football's most prestigious individual award, invited Wednesday only those three players to the presentation ceremony.

Last season, five players attended the Heisman ceremony and Leinart won it. Since 1999, either four or five finalists have been invited to New York.

Bush emerged as the favorite in the past three weeks with two enormous games. The 200-pound speedster had 513 all-purpose yards in a 50-42 victory over Fresno State and he rushed for 260 yards and two touchdowns in a 66-19 victory over UCLA, which completed the Trojans' perfect regular season.

Bush, who finished fifth in the Heisman voting last season to earn a trip to Manhattan, has rushed for a career-high 1,658 yards, averaging 8.9 per carry, and scored 18 touchdowns.

Leinart is having an even better season this year than last, when he became the sixth USC player to win the Heisman, and second Trojans quarterback in three years.

Young, the best running quarterback in the country, became an effective passer this season, throwing for 2,769 yards and 26 touchdowns. He's led the Longhorns to a perfect regular season and Big 12 title.

Carson was the Steelers' defensive coordinator from 1972-77, and shaped a defense led by Joe Greene, Jack Ham and Jack Lambert into one of the best in NFL history. During that time, the Steelers won three Super Bowl titles under coach Chuck Noll.

Carson then became defensive coordinator of the Los Angeles Rams, who lost to the Steelers in the Super Bowl after the 1979 season. He coached the Browns in 1989-90, posting a 11-13-1 record in 1½ seasons.

Cleveland won the AFC Central in his first season, beating Buffalo 34-30 in the playoffs before losing to Denver 37-21 in the AFC championship game. He was fired the next year when the team got off to a 2-7 start.

Carson also coached Georgia Tech from 1967-71, posting a 27-27 record, including a win in the 1970 Sun Bowl and was defensive coordinator for the New York Jets from 1985-88.

Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Eric Desjardins is expected to miss eight-to-10 weeks because of a dislocated right shoulder that will require surgery to fix.

Desjardins, 36, was injured Tuesday night in a collision with Calgary's Darren McCarty during the first period of the Flyers' 1-0 win in a shootout. He will be operated on next Tuesday by team orthopedist Peter DeLuca.

Desjardins, chosen seven times as the Flyers' most outstanding defenseman, had surgery on the same shoulder four years ago. He also missed eight games this season due to a concussion.

"I'm excited to remain with D.C. United," Adu said in an interview posted on the team's Web site. "I'm working hard to improve my game this offseason in order to become a bigger part of the team next season."

Adu, his mother and his agent met with United officials recently, and the 16-year-old forward also held separate meetings with coach Peter Nowak in Florida to clear the air over Adu's role on the team.

"I feel that I made substantial improvement from year one to two," Adu said. "I hope that I continue to improve and that I can utilize my ability to better contribute to the success of the team going forward."

McGowen, a 5-foot-10 guard who has signed with Texas A&M, scored 41 points Tuesday night to push her career total to 4,542, according to totals compiled by A&M officials. The record had belonged to Missy Thomas, who scored 4,506 points at Gibsland-Coleman in Louisiana from 1992-95.

Fans filled the gymnasium at tiny Goodrich, which has an enrollment of 70, to watch McGowen break the record in a 55-49 victory over Chireno. Goodrich is about 65 miles northeast of Houston.

This was the second time a Richardson brother was fatally shot. When Quentin Richardson was 12, his 23-year-old brother Bernard was killed on the city's South Side. The case remains unsolved, his family said.

Two rare copies of a sports newspaper, including issues dealing with the 1919 Chicago White Sox gambling scandal, have been returned to the University of Illinois library.

The copies of Collyer's Eye - which was credited with exposing the scandal - were found on a table in the Urbana-Champaign campus' library about 9 p.m. Tuesday, said Karen Schmidt, the associate university librarian for collections.

Librarians discovered the issues were missing earlier this fall, around the time the White Sox won their first World Series in 88 years, but the library did not publicly report the disappearance until this week.

"Getting the news out about the missing volumes was extremely important," Schmidt said in a statement. "We don't know what happened to the books - who had them, were they had been - but we are very, very happy about their return."

The person who placed the books on the table was not found and UI assistant police chief Krystal Fitzpatrick said the books would not be processed for fingerprints because of their delicate condition.

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