SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP)
-- The San Francisco 49ers acquired a proven backup quarterback for Alex Smith, getting Trent Dilfer from the Cleveland Browns on Thursday in a trade for quarterback Ken Dorsey and an undisclosed 2007 draft pick.
Dilfer, who won a Super Bowl with Baltimore in 2001, will give the 49ers depth behind Smith, who struggled as a rookie last season after being the No. 1 overall pick in the 2005 draft.
"Trent was a player we had interest in last season," 49ers coach Mike Nolan said in a statement. "We were looking for a veteran quarterback with experience that could help mentor Alex Smith. Trent fits the bill on both counts and we are excited to have him with the 49ers."
Dilfer signed a four-year deal with the Browns last year after stints with the Baltimore Ravens and Seattle Seahawks. He went 4-7 as a Browns starter before losing the job to rookie Charlie Frye. Dilfer completed 59.8 percent of his passes last season for 2,321 yards, with 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.
"Trent Dilfer played an important role in the making over of our football team last year," Browns general manager Phil Savage said in a statement. "At this point, to add Ken Dorsey and to give Trent the opportunity to go back home to California is a win-win for all parties."
Dilfer, who played in college at Fresno State, has started 107 career games, throwing for 106 touchdowns and 117 interceptions. He made the Pro Bowl with Tampa Bay in 1997 after passing for 2,555 yards and 21 touchdowns.
Dorsey started 10 games in his three years in San Francisco, including three last season. He completed 48 of 90 passes for 481 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions in 2005.
Cody Pickett is San Francisco's third-string quarterback and the team also drafted Michael Robinson in the fourth round last month. Robinson, a quarterback in college at Penn State, is expected to mostly be used as a running back, receiver or kick returner in San Francisco.

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Mike Metzger broke the world record for longest motorcycle backflip Thursday, flying 125 feet over the fountains at Caesars Palace and becoming only the second person to clear the pool on two wheels. Immediately after a flawless landing over fountains that reached some 30 feet in the air, Metzger jumped off his 220-pound motorcycle and hugged his wife and three-year-old son. "It's something I've wanted to do forever," said Metzger, a 30-year-old freestyle motocross rider. "Everyone pushes the limits in Las Vegas!" he yelled as a crowd cheered and his parents, Ted and a tearful Sharon, looked on. The jump was made famous when motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel crashed on an attempt with no backflip on New Year's Eve 1967. Knievel was in a 29-day coma after the crash. Gary Wells also crashed horrifically trying the jump in 1980 but Knievel's son, Robbie, successfully landed a no-frills leap in 1989. Jeremy "Twitch" Stenberg was the previous record holder for longest motorcycle backflip with a 108-foot jump at the 2005 Summer X Games.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Chris Paul of New Orleans, who led all rookies with 21 double-doubles, was an unanimous selection to the NBA all-rookie team on Thursday.
Paul topped the first team with 58 points, followed by Toronto's Charlie Villanueva (56), Milwaukee's Andrew Bogut (55), Utah's Deron Williams (46) and New York's Channing Frye (45) in balloting by the league's head coaches.
Paul averaged 16.1 points, 7.8 assists and 5.1 rebounds for the Hornets, who took up temporary residence in Oklahoma City after Hurricane Katrina.
Villanueva led the Eastern Conference rookies with 13 points per game. Bogut, the No. 1 pick in the 2005 draft, topped all rookies in rebounding (7.0). Williams averaged 10.8 points and ranked third among rookies with 4.5 assists. Frye led all rookie centers in scoring with 12.3 points.
The all-rookie second team included Indiana's Danny Granger, Charlotte's Raymond Felton, Houston's Luther Head, Atlanta's Marvin Williams and Boston's Ryan Gomes.

DETROIT (AP) -- Detroit Pistons assistant coach Sidney Lowe will return to North Carolina State to coach the school he led to a national championship under Jim Valvano. N.C. State, which has searched for a successor to Herb Sendek for the past month, will introduce Lowe as its new coach over the weekend, a person within the Pistons organization told The Associated Press on Thursday. The source spoke on the condition of anonymity because the school planned to make its announcement during a news conference Saturday. Lowe was the point guard on the Wolfpack's 1983 national championship team under Valvano and ranks second among the school's all-time assist leaders and third in steals. Lowe, 46, declined comment when asked whether he had interviewed for the opening. "Right now, my focus is right here," Lowe said Wednesday night as he walked onto the court while the Pistons were warming up. He said earlier this week he would be interested in the job, but wasn't focusing on it as Detroit chases a second NBA title in three years. The Pistons concluded their first-round series against Milwaukee on Wednesday and will play the winner of the Cleveland-Washington series. The hiring was first reported by The News & Observer of Raleigh and ESPN.com. NC State athletics director Lee Fowler and Pistons coach Flip Saunders did not immediately return phone calls Thursday afternoon. Saunders said most coaches, including Lowe, think about what it would be like to coach where they went to college. "He's always kept in close touch with the program," Saunders said Wednesday. The Wolfpack's top two targets -- Texas' Rick Barnes and Memphis' John Calipari -- reportedly turned down offers of about $2 million a year to replace Sendek, who went 191-132 in 10 seasons before leaving for Arizona State last month. Last week, two more names linked to the job -- former UCLA coach and TV analyst Steve Lavin, and West Virginia coach John Beilein -- issued statements saying they would remain in their current positions. Regina Davis, the mother of incoming recruit Larry Davis, said associate athletics director Jon Fagg had called the family to tell them that the new coach would contact them Thursday or Friday. "We were being patient all along and we just figured we'd rather they take their time and get the right guy instead of making a hasty decision," said Davis, who lives in Deer Park, N.Y. Sendek led NC State to five straight NCAA tournament appearances, tying the late Valvano for the best run in school history. But Sendek was criticized in recent seasons despite that success, often for the program's Princeton-style motion offense and its struggles against Atlantic Coast Conference neighbors Duke and North Carolina. Sendek went 8-38 against those rivals, and went 9-16 against Wake Forest, the state's other ACC school. Lowe, who has never coached in college, played four seasons in the NBA before moving on to coaching, rising to become the head coach at Minnesota and Memphis. He has a career record of 79-228 and resigned at Memphis after the team's 0-8 start in to the 2002-2003 season. Lowe does not hold an undergraduate degree, which NC�State has said it will require of its next coach. He is completing degree work at St. Pauls College in Lawrenceville, Va., the school provost confirmed Wednesday.

INCHEON, South Korea (AP) -- Michelle Wie made her first cut in a professional men's tournament Friday after shooting a 3-under-par 69 in the Asian Tour's SK Telecom Open.
Wie finished at 5-under 139 after two rounds and was tied for 17th at the Sky 72 Golf Club course, six strokes behind co-leaders Iain Steel of Malaysia (66) and Prom Meesawat of Thailand (64). The cut was set at even-par 144.
"It's just wonderful. Great. I feel really, really happy," Wie said. "Now I want to play well tomorrow. It's not over yet."
The Hawiian-born teenager becomes the second woman to make the cut at a men's tournament in South Korea; LPGA star Se Ri Pak finished tied for 10th in the lower-tier KPGA Tour SBS Pro-Golf Championship in 2003.
Wie improved on her opening round of 70 with a near flawless display Friday, dropping just one bogey on the 16th against four birdies.
"My putting was good," she said. "Yesterday was pretty good, but today was better. I was more confident today."
The SK Telecom Open is Wie's eighth start in a men's professional event.
She played in four PGA Tour events and has also competed on the Japan, Nationwide and Canadian tours, missing the 36-hole cut in all seven tournaments.
Since turning professional last year when she turned 16, Wie has missed the cut in the PGA's Casio World Open and Sony Open.
"In the future, I still want to challenge the PGA Tour and make the top-ten," Wie said.
Annika Sorenstam, the top women's player in the world, became the first woman in 58 years to compete on the PGA Tour when she missed the cut at the 2003 Colonial, shooting rounds of 71 and 74. She has played in men's Skins Games the last two years.
No woman has made the cut on the PGA Tour since Babe Zaharias at the 1945 Tucson Open.
Two years ago, Britain's Laura Davies was given a sponsor's exemption to the ANZ Championship, jointly sponsored by the men's European Tour and Australasian PGA, the first woman to get one on either tour. In the modified Stableford system of scoring, Davies missed the cut with a two-day total of minus-13 points -- 40 points behind the second-round leader.
Both of Wie's parents were born in South Korea, and her visit has generated intense media coverage and large galleries following her on the course.
"I'm really happy to make the cut in Korea, and I had such big galleries," she said. "Plus I really love children and there were lots of young fans here today."
Galleries of at least a thousand people gathered around each hole she played and police had to control traffic clogging a nearby expressway that passes the Sky 72 course as onlookers cheered her bunker shot over the bluff on the 16th.
"I really enjoy that kind of thing," Wie said. "Police officers came to the people who stopped their cars and told them to move. The gallery was crowded and they made so much noise. It made me laugh a bit."
When she fired her fairway shot on the 220-yard 3rd, a toddler in a flowery dress shouted "on-ni (big sister) fighting!" as Wie strode by.

ATLANTA (AP) --�Billy Payne, who ran the Atlanta Olympics a decade ago, is replacing Hootie Johnson as chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters.
The 75-year-old Johnson had served in the role since 1998, notably leading the fight against demands that women be allowed to join the club.
Johnson also ordered two major overhauls of the course, adding 460 yards in length -- making it the second-longest test in major championship history at 7,445 yards -- in an era of rapidly improving equipment and longer-hitting players.
A South Carolina native and member of the club since 1968, Johnson moved up to become the club's fifth chairman after Jack Stephens stepped down.
Johnson will relinquish his title on May 21 and move into the role of chairman emeritus.
"I have enjoyed my time serving as chairman," he said in a statement. "Working with club members, staff and volunteers on the Masters has been very rewarding. The tournament is successful by any measure and will continue to grow. I know I leave the championship in very capable hands."
The 58-year-old Payne has headed the Masters media committee since 2000.
"It's an honor to be the new chairman of Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters tournament," he said in the statement. "Our club has outstanding membership, dedicated staff and volunteers committed to the Masters, and loyal and knowledgeable patrons. Hootie did a wonderful job as chairman, and I will endeavor to maintain the customs and traditions of our club as established by Clifford Roberts and Bobby Jones."
Payne was not immediately available for further comment. The club said he would discuss his new position on Monday.
Martha Burk, who led the fight to open the club's all-male membership to women in 2003, ran up against stiff opposition from Johnson and didn't draw nearly as many counter protesters and supporters when she staged a rally near the club during the Masters.
Still, she was hopeful of discussing the issue again with Augusta National's new chairman.
"I hope that Billy Payne will exercise stronger leadership and better judgment than Hootie Johnson has," said Burk, who is chairwoman of the National Council of Women's Organizations. "He has a unique opportunity to show some leadership."
Payne was born in Athens, raised in Atlanta and played football at the University of Georgia, where he earned All-Southeastern Conference honors as a senior in 1968. He came to international prominence when he led Atlanta's long-shot bid to land the 1996 Centennial Olympics.
The privately funded Atlanta Games were plagued by transportation problems and charges of rampant commercialization, though Payne pointed to huge crowds, impressive venues and the post-Olympics impact on development in downtown Atlanta as the more lasting legacies.
Payne is currently a partner in the Atlanta-based Gleacher Partners, an investment banking firm. He also is chairman of Centennial Investment Properties, in which his son is a partner.
Burk said she knew little about Payne, other than his role in the Atlanta Olympics.
"To my knowledge, he never spoke out during the controversy," she said. "But I hope Billy Payne has not had to engage in a prior agreement to continue to bar women in order to ascend to the chairmanship.
"I would welcome a dialogue."