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The new Pima College football coach will be the junior college's only full-time coach and earn a salary starting at $40,040, according to a job posting on the school's Web site.

Ex-coach Bill Laslett, who resigned Monday after Pima went 1-30 in his three-year tenure, earned $2,000 per month over 10 months on a part-time basis.

Making the position full-time should help the program be more successful, said Robert Riza, Pima's assistant vice chancellor for student services.

"It's a change we've looked at, and now it's a good time to make it," Riza said.

Applicants are expected to have at least three years of coaching experience at the high school or college level. Pima will begin reviewing applications on Dec. 8.

— Sarah Trotto

ISTANBUL, Turkey — The Olympic movement is on sound financial footing but must hold down the size and cost of the games to cope with the global economic downturn, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said Friday.

"The games are not anymore in a growth mode, they are in a conservation mode," Rogge said in an address to the European Olympic Committees.

Rogge said the IOC must maintain its cap of 28 sports and 10,500 athletes for the Summer Games, and resist an "underground swell" to increase the number to more than 30 sports.

The 2012 London Olympics will feature 26 sports. Seven sports — including golf, softball and baseball — are competing for two available slots on the program for the 2016 games.

Rogge insisted the financial situation for the next three Olympics — 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, London 2012 and 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia — were "secure."

● President-elect Barack Obama made a personal appeal Friday to bring the 2016 Olympics to his home city of Chicago.

Obama appeared in a 90-second taped video message played by Chicago bid leaders to the general assembly of European Olympic Committees in Istanbul.

Chicago is competing against Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro, which also made presentations Friday. The IOC will vote on the host city Oct. 2.

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina — Feliciano Lopez upset Juan Martin del Potro 4-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4), 6-3 Friday, allowing Spain to escape the first day of the Davis Cup final tied 1-1 with Argentina.

David Nalbandian brushed aside David Ferrer 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 in the opening singles.

The heavily favored del Potro injured his right thigh in the sixth game of the fourth set. Doubles play begins today.

Arizona's Ben Grado finished first on Friday in the 1-meter diving competition on the first day of the Arizona Diving Invite at Hillenbrand Aquatic Center.

Ainsley Oliver, a freshman on the UA women's team, placed fourth in the 3-meter event. The 14-school competition concludes today.

The U.S. men's soccer team will open 2009 schedule with an exhibition game against Sweden on Jan. 24 at Carson, Calif.

Most of the schedule for the year will be determined today, when the draw is held in South Africa for both the final round of World Cup qualifying and the Confederations Cup.

● Efrain Flores resigned as Chivas Guadalajara manager on Friday, two days after the team was eliminated in the Copa Sudamericana semifinals.