Tailback Asher Clark, Air Force's second-leading all-time rusher, has been kicked out of school less than a week before graduation as a result of an investigation into illegal drug use, The Gazette of Colorado Springs has reported, citing unnamed sources. School spokesman David Cannon confirmed to the newspaper that Clark, a four-year starter for the Falcons, is no longer enrolled but would not... [Read More]
Three Arkansas football players have been arrested for residential burglary this afternoon, according to the Washington County Detention Center website. Wide receivers Marquel Wade and Maudrecus Humphrey and tight end Andrew Peterson have been booked into the Washington County Detention Center after being arrested by the University of Arkansas Police Department. All three players have been... [Read More]
One of the two charges against two Penn State administrators will likely be dismissed now that prosecutors have come forward to change by one year the date they allege former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulted a boy in the team's showers, legal experts said. Five weeks ago, the attorney general's office argued in a court filing concerning the charge of failing to properly... [Read More]
Clemson star receiver Sammy Watkins was one of two Tiger athletes arrested early Friday on drug-related charges.Watkins, 18, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and simple possession of marijuana, both misdemeanors. Men's soccer player Amadou-Tidiane Daniel Dia, 18, was charged with simple possession of marijuana.The two were arrested after police stopped the car Watkins was... [Read More]
Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees has been charged with four misdemeanors after allegedly raising his knee and knocking the wind out of a police officer after an off-campus house party early Thursday. The St. Joseph County Prosecutor's Office says the 19-year-old Rees was charged with one count of battery, two counts of resisting law enforcement and one count of illegal consumption of alcohol by... [Read More]
The NCAA has ruled that South Carolina failed to monitor its athletic program and has accepted the school's proposed sanctions to cut six football scholarships the next three years and slash its official recruiting visits by more than half. There were no forfeiture of games or bowl ban attached the penalties which stemmed from athletes receiving $59,000 in impermissible benefits. The NCAA said... [Read More]
Arkansas linebacker Tyler Gilbert has been arrested on a charge of aggravated burglary and theft of property. According to a report by the Fayetteville Police Department, Gilbert, Jesse Booker and Ryan Graves late last Thursday evening kicked down the apartment door belonging to a fraternity brother of Booker's and proceeded to take items out of the residence. The victim, Mbato Nkwocha, also told... [Read More]
Former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino said Friday that he won't appeal his firing and seek any of the $18 million buyout that was part of his contract while the university put his ex-mistress on paid leave following the revelation of their affair. Petrino's agent, Russ Campbell, sent an email to Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long late Thursday saying Petrino has accepted "responsibility for... [Read More]
A judge on Thursday refused to throw out child sex-abuse charges against Jerry Sandusky but will allow defense lawyers for the retired Penn State assistant football coach to ask again to have the case dismissed as more evidence is turned over by prosecutors. Judge John Cleland ruled on a catch-all pretrial defense motion that also sought to have some of the evidence against Sandusky suppressed,... [Read More]
Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino was hurt in a motorcycle accident on Sunday but did not suffer life-threatening injuries and is expected to recover, sources told ESPN's Joe Schad. Arkansas State Police said Petrino crashed his motorcycle on a highway and was taken to a hospital for treatment. A source close to Petrino told Schad the coach is "pretty banged up" but "will... [Read More]
A Boston College football player has been charged with secretly making an audio recording of two students having sex.Backup defensive lineman Jaryd Rudolph was released on his own recognizance Wednesday after pleading not guilty to violating the state's wiretap statute.Attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who represents a female Boston College graduate student, said neither his client nor her partner --... [Read More]
Oregon has acknowledged in documents that it did not adequately monitor its football program and that it did not follow NCAA regulations relating to recruiting and use of recruiting servicesA statement of "proposed findings of violations" submitted by the NCAA to the Oregon athletic department was obtained Friday in a public records request by several media outlets.The NCAA has been... [Read More]
Authorities say Florida State tailback James Wilder Jr. was arrested after a confrontation with deputies.Florida's Leon County Sheriff's Office reports the 19-year-old was at a Tallahassee apartment Tuesday when deputies went to arrest a 20-year-old woman for missing a court appearance. As a deputy escorted the woman to a patrol car, a sheriff's report says, Wilder stepped between the deputy and... [Read More]
As soon as he walked into the Penn State locker room, Mike McQueary heard running water and rhythmic, slapping sounds of "skin on skin." He looked in a mirror and saw a naked Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant coach, holding a young boy by the waist from behind, up against the wall in the campus shower."I just saw Coach Sandusky in the showers with a boy and what I saw was wrong... [Read More]
Big Ten leaders say they want to conduct their own review into the Penn State sex abuse scandal and that the conference could impose its own sanctions on the school if it doesn't like what it finds. The league's Council of Presidents/Chancellors said Thursday that it wants Big Ten lawyers involved in any investigation into "matters of institutional control, ethical conduct and/or other... [Read More]
West Virginia is seeking to dismiss a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by the Big East after the university sued the conference in a bid to make a quick exit for the Big 12. West Virginia filed a motion Tuesday in Providence County Superior Court in Rhode Island. A clerk said Wednesday a hearing date hasn't been set. The motion says the court lacks jurisdiction over WVU and the university has... [Read More]
