Orlando gets ACC title game
The ACC is moving its 2016 football championship to Florida and Orlando’s Camping World Stadium.
The conference made the announcement yesterday about the Dec. 3 game.
Orlando emerged as a possible location after the ACC joined other sports leagues in pulling out of North Carolina amid backlash over controversial state House Bill 2.
The law requires transgender people to use restrooms at schools and government buildings corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates. It also excludes gender identity and sexual orientation from local and statewide antidiscrimination protections.
The ACC Championship Game had been scheduled for Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium, where it had been held since 2010. The news came 15 days after the conference decided to pull 10 neutralsite championships from North Carolina, days after the NCAA said it would relocate its championship events from the state.
Cougars ride Ward
Greg Ward Jr. threw for a career-high 389 yards and accounted for five touchdowns in just more than three quarters for sixth-ranked Houston (50, 2-0 American) to help the Cougars earn a 42-14 victory over UConn (2-3, 0-2) in Houston.
’Bama LB charged
Alabama linebacker Tim
Williams has been charged in Tuscaloosa, Ala., with carrying a pistol without a permit. Campus police arrested Williams on the misdemeanor charge at about 1 a.m. yesterday in his vehicle in a grocery store parking lot.
In other Alabama news, redshirt freshman quarterback Blake Barnett has left the program and withdrawn from school. . . . Wisconsin kicker Rafael Gaglianone is out for the season after undergoing surgery for a back injury. . . .
A North Carolina football player charged with misdemeanor sexual battery and assault on a fellow student is scheduled for trial in Hillsborough, N.C. During a brief court hearing, attorneys reserved the weeks of Dec. 5 and Dec. 12 for the case against Allen Artis, a junior reserve linebacker suspended indefinitely from the team.