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CHICAGO – Jerry Wainwright is leaving the Richmond Spiders to take over the DePaul basketball program, the school confirmed Wednesday.

Wainwright, a Berwyn native who was 50-41 record in three seasons at Richmond, replaces Dave Leitao, who left for Virginia earlier this month.

DePaul plans to introduce Wainwright at a news conference Thursday, university spokesman Scott Reed said.

The 58-year-old Wainwright has led teams to the NCAA tournament in three of the last six seasons: Atlantic 10 member Richmond in 2004 and Colonial Athletic Association school UNC-Wilmington in 2000 and 2002.

During eight seasons with the Seahawks, Wainwright was 136-103, including a 23-10 mark in 2002, when the team upset Southern California in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Wainwright was an assistant coach at Wake Forest from 1986 to 1994, serving under head coaches Bob Staak and Dave Odom, before taking his first head coaching job at UNC-Wilmington in 1994.

DePaul finished 20-11 overall and 10-6 in Conference USA last season and made it to the second round of the NIT.

The Blue Demons will join the Big East beginning in the 2005-06 season as part of a 16-team conference that will add Marquette, Cincinnati, Louisville and South Florida.

SAN ANTONIO – The nation's oldest college all-star football game is moving from San Francisco to San Antonio.

The East-West Shrine Game, played since 1923, will be held in the Alamodome beginning next year, game officials said Wednesday. The 2006 game is scheduled for Jan. 21.

Jack Hart, the game's executive director, said the directors and trustees of the Shriners Hospitals approved the move last week. The game raises money for the 22 Shriners medical facilities around the country.

Board chairman Raoul Frevel said the Shriners faced rising costs if they wanted to keep playing in San Francisco, where the game had been played since its inception.

He said attendance had been dropping and the Shriners wanted a more centralized location for the contest, which pits standout players from eastern U.S. colleges against those from the West.

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