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Arizona Wildcats wide receiver Mike Thomas has accepted an invitation to play in the East-West Shrine Game, which will be played Jan. 17 in Houston.

Thomas will play for the West team, which will be coached by former Alabama and Arizona Cardinals coach Gene Stallings.

Arizona has sent at least one player to the East-West Shrine Game every year since 1995. Linebacker Spencer Larsen and defensive tackle Lionel Dotson took part in last year's game; Larsen was named the game's defensive most valuable player.

Thomas caught a team-best 74 passes for 825 yards and four touchdowns as a UA senior. He set the Pac-10's career receptions record in last month's Las Vegas Bowl win over BYU.

So far, Thomas is the only Wildcat to accept an invitation to play in a postseason all-star game.

SEATTLE — Washington announced Monday that Nick Holt is leaving USC to become the Huskies' defensive coordinator, plucked away by new UW head coach Steve Sarkisian, another former Trojans' assistant.

Aside from a 5-18 stint as head coach at Idaho in 2004-05, Holt has been on the staff at USC since 2001.

● Former UA guard and assistant coach Charlie Dickey will coach the offensive line at Kansas State, the school announced Monday.

Dickey had been offensive line coach at Utah since 2005 and helped the Utes complete a 13-0 season last week with a victory over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl.

He earned second-team All-Pac-10 honors in 1984 for UA.

● The coaching staffs for the Cincinnati Bengals and Jacksonville Jaguars will lead the two sides of the Jan. 24 Senior Bowl.

Cincinnati's Marvin Lewis will coach the North squad in his second stint on the sidelines for the all-star game for top senior NFL prospects. Jack Del Rio and the Jaguars' staff will lead the South team.