An attorney for the 14 Missouri football administrators, coaches and trainers facing a wrongful death lawsuit from the family of linebacker Aaron O'Neal has asked a court to dismiss the case.

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Though it's not a party in the lawsuit, the university has hired attorney Hamp Ford to defend athletic director Mike Alden, coach Gary Pinkel, team medical director Rex Sharp and 11 other trainers and strength coaches.

The motion to dismiss, filed Wednesday in Columbia, Mo., is the first response to the lawsuit in which Lonnie O'Neal, the player's father, said school officials failed to recognize signs of medical distress after his 19-year-old son collapsed in a preseason workout July 12. He died later that afternoon.

The one-page motion asks the court to dismiss the lawsuit because the plaintiff "fails to state a cause of action against these defendants upon which relief can be granted." An accompanying motion asks the court to require Lonnie O'Neal to provide further details about the team leaders' alleged shortcomings.

West Virginia

Upgrading the non-conference portion of their schedule, West Virginia officials announced the addition of three perennial bowl teams to future schedules from 2008-12: Auburn, Michigan State and Florida State. Florida State is scheduled to play a home-and-home series with the Mountaineers in 2012-13. The Seminoles will come to Morgantown Sept. 8 in the first year of that deal, with the Mountaineers going to Tallahassee, Fla., Sept. 14, 2013.

First up among these three teams is Auburn, which will host West Virginia Sept. 6, 2008. The Tigers are to visit Morgantown the following Sept. 5. Next would come still-unspecified dates with Michigan State in 2010 and 2011.

Miami

Florida State and Miami will again open their seasons against each other on Labor Day in 2006, but ESPN will be televising the game in prime time instead of ABC, which has carried the game the past two seasons. A week after the Sept. 4 game between the Seminoles and Hurricanes, ESPN will begin airing NFL Monday Night Football.