MU baseball game rained out

The Missouri baseball team’s scheduled game Tuesday at Southern Illinois was rained out and will not be re-scheduled. The Tigers will next play at Kansas State on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.

NFL ALLOWS MORE CAMERAS: The National Football League will allow more local television stations to cover games from the sidelines next season under a policy change prompted by complaints from broadcast media.

Lawmakers in Missouri and Arizona had challenged an NFL policy, adopted for last season, that booted most local video cameras from the sidelines.

Instead, TV stations were required to get sideline footage from a pool photographer or use the network television clips.

Broadcast stations complained the policy prohibited them from zooming in on particular players for feature stories that would be of interest to their local audiences.

Under a change in policy, the NFL now plans to allow up to 10 local TV cameras — generally five from each teams’ media market — on the sidelines of games for its 2007-2008 season. The change was approved last week by NFL teams at a conference in Phoenix and announced at a Missouri Senate hearing on legislation targeting the former policy.

GOODELL MEETS WITH JONES: NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and league officials met with Adam “Pacman” Jones Tuesday as the Tennessee Titans’ cornerback attempted to avoid a long suspension following a series of arrests.

Goodell and his staff also met with Cincinnati wide receiver Chris Henry and members of the NFL Players Association executive board as he prepared a tougher policy on NFL players who violate the law.

Goodell has said he will announce his decision on suspensions or other disciplinary action before the draft on April 28 and perhaps in the next 10 days.

BEILEIN TO MICHIGAN: It was planned to be a meeting where John Beilein told his West Virginia players how to prepare for offseason workouts. Instead, he told them goodbye.

Beilein, who took the Mountaineers from mediocrity to two NCAA tournaments and an NIT championship, is moving on to Michigan.

“Sometimes good things come to an end,” Beilein told a news conference in Morgantown, W.Va. “It’s time for me to do new things at a new university.”

Beilein accepted Michigan’s offer earlier in the day, and declined to reveal contract specifics. Michigan planned to introduce Beilein at a news conference on Wednesday in Ann Arbor, Mich.

NASCAR MANDATES CAR CHANGE: NASCAR will mandate a change in the design of the Car of Tomorrow in an attempt to alleviate the heat that caused foam to melt in several cars last weekend at Martinsville.

About 50 Nextel Cup series teams were at Richmond International

Raceway on Tuesday to begin two days of testing the Car of Tomorrow on a larger track.

Nextel Cup director John Darby said in an interview that before the next COT race at Phoenix on April 21, NASCAR will require teams remove a 23 inch by 8 inch block of foam above where the exhaust pipes extend under the right side of the cars, and surround the area with a heat shield.

The idea is to create cooling air flow in the hottest area on the car and cut down on the melting of the foam that gave Matt Kenseth trouble in the COT’s first race at Bristol and helped cut short Kevin Harvick’s race at Martinsville last weekend.

LIGETY WINS TITLE: Ted Ligety couldn’t quite hang on to the slalom national title he held for two years, so he took over the giant slalom instead.

Ligety won the GS Tuesday at the U.S. Alpine Championships, ending the event with the fifth national title of his career.

Ligety won the slalom title in 2004 and last year, but finished second to Jimmy Cochran in that discipline Sunday. On Tuesday, Ligety led after the first GS run and basically just had to finish the second after several skiers who were within range of his time went off course, fell or just didn’t show up.