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set to go, driver says Deweycheatumnhowe continues to show improvement from a throat and mouth problem that threatened to knock him out of Saturday’s Breeders Crown at the Meadowlands.

“We’re going,” driver and trainer Ray Schnittker said yesterday. “I trained him today and he seemed good.”

“Dewey,” a leading contender for Harness Horse of the Year honors, is the 6-5 favorite in the 3-year-old Colt Trot, one of eight Breeders Crowns worth a combined $4.9 million.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Yale football coach Jack Siedlecki has announced he is retiring after 12 years and two Ivy League championships, but he’ll be staying at the university to become assistant director of athletics.

Siedlecki posted a 70-47 overall record and 47-37 league record during his tenure in New Haven, which included sharing league championships with Brown in 1999 and Princeton in 2006. Yale finished this season 6-4, including 4-3 in the conference.

Florida State freshmen wide receivers Bert Reed and Cameron Wade have been arrested on misdemeanor battery charges stemming from a fight in the student union two weeks ago between football players and fraternity members.

Baseball Paul Kinzer, the agent for free-agent closer Francisco Rodriguez, whom the Mets are interested in, said he won’t start detailed discussions with teams until the winter meetings open in Las Vegas on Dec. 8. “I’ll probably see the Mets at the winter meetings. I don’t have anything else planned,” he said.

Shortstop Rafael Furcal met with the Oakland A’s. The San Francisco Giants are also pursuing Furcal. … The A’s reportedly have begun talks with the Washington Nationals about acquiring first baseman Nick Johnson. … The Seattle Mariners have dismissed coaches Mel Stottlemyre and Lee Elia.

COLLEGE Baseball Allentown standout Ed Ras has signed a national letter of intent to continue his career at Seton Hall University. Ras, a pitcher and outfielder, helped Allentown to a 27-3 record and the school’s first sectional and state titles last spring.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Kristi Toliver scored 16 points and Lynetta Kizer scored 13 of her 15 points during a decisive run to help No. 10 Maryland beat South Dakota State, 68-56, at the Cancun Caribbean Challenge in Cancun, Mexico.In East Lansing, Mich., Lauren Aitch had 14 points and eight rebounds off the bench to help No. 24 Michigan State (6-0) pull away from No. 23 Old Dominion, 74-48.

LAW AND ORDER Thousands of pages of grand jury testimony related to the long-running steroids investigation of Barry Bonds and other athletes were unsealed yesterday by a federal judge in San Francisco.

U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston signed an order that allows prosecutors to share grand jury transcripts, medical lab reports and search warrant affidavits with Bonds’ lawyers. It came in response to a request from the U.S. Attorney’s office last week that the protective order on the documents be lifted to avoid possibly delaying Bonds’ trial, scheduled to begin March 2.

Tennis great Jimmy Connors has been charged with a misdemeanor for an altercation last week before a basketball game between UC Santa Barbara and top-ranked North Carolina in Santa Barbara, Calif. Connors was charged yesterday in Santa Barbara Superior Court with disrupting campus activities and refusing to leave a university facility.

- Staff and wire reports

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