FOOTBALL

Ducks, Beavs add to strength/conditioning staffs — Oregon and Oregon State on Thursday announced the addition of strength and conditioning personnel to their football coaching staffs. At Oregon, Aaron Feld will be the program’s new strength and conditioning coordinator. Feld spent the past three seasons as assistant director of strength and conditioning at Georgia. Feld has also served as strength coach at North Alabama and as a volunteer strength coach at Alabama, where he worked with new Oregon head coach Mario Cristobal. At Oregon State, Marco Candido will serve as associate head strength and conditioning coach under new head coach Jonathan Smith, who also announced the hiring of Bryan Klobucar as associate strength and conditioning coach. Candido spent the past two seasons at Illinois and before that was at Washington State (2008-16). Klobucar has spent the past three years at Arizona.

NFL to ‘look into’ whether Raiders violated Rooney Rule — The NFL said Thursday it will investigate whether the Oakland Raiders violated the “Rooney Rule” when they hired Jon Gruden as coach. The Fritz Pollard Alliance called for the investigation on Wednesday out of concern that Raiders owner Mark Davis came to an agreement with Gruden before the team interviewed any minority candidates as required by the NFL since 2003. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement that the NFL will “look into this.” The Fritz Pollard Alliance is dedicated to promoting diversity and equality of job opportunity in the coaching, front office and scouting staffs of NFL teams. Davis said Tuesday at the news conference introducing Gruden as the team’s new coach that he had been trying to make the move for six years and finally believed it would happen after a meeting in Philadelphia on Christmas Eve, the day before Gruden worked a game between the Raiders and Eagles on ESPN.

Hockey

U.S. Army challenging nickname of NHL’s Golden Knights — The U.S. Army has filed a challenge opposing the application of the NHL’s newest franchise to register the trademark “Vegas Golden Knights.” In a claim filed Wednesday with the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in suburban Washington, the Army claims it will be damaged by registration of the marque and says it has acquired exclusive rights that predate any rights claimed by the NHL team. The Army says it has used the Golden Knights nickname since the late 1960s for its parachute team, public relations and recruiting, and claims it owns “common law rights” for the color schemes that combine black and gold and yellow and white. The challenge by the U.S. Army was first reported by Sportslogos.net.

Track and field

Cy Young, only American to win gold in javelin, dies — Cy Young, who became the first American to win a gold medal in javelin, accomplishing the feat at the 1952 Summer Games in Helsinki, died Dec. 6 at his home in Modesto, California. Young — a 6-foot-5 farmer unrelated to the Hall of Fame pitcher of the same name — was one of three Americans challenging Finland’s domination of the event. Four of the previous five men’s Olympic champions had been from Finland, and Finns had swept all the javelin medals at the 1932 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

— From wire reports