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FOOTBALL Mayfield punished

Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield won’t start Saturday’s regular-season finale against West Virginia, Sooners Coach Lincoln Riley announced Monday. Mayfield won’t be a team captain either, Riley said during an emotional press conference announcement Monday morning. Mayfield was spotted grabbing his crotch and yelling an obscene comment toward Kansas players during the Sooners win on Saturday. “This decision was difficult for a lot of reasons,” Riley said. “They’re not adults yet. They’re still learning, they’re still in that phase where you’re going to make mistakes and the important thing is that you learn from them and grow from them. I think what we’re setting forward here is going to provide Baker an opportunity to do that. I know it’s certainly something that’s going to get his attention.”

Ex-receiver Glenn dies

Former Dallas Cowboys receiver Terry Glenn died Monday following a one-vehicle rollover traffic accident near Dallas that left his fiancée slightly hurt, officials said. He was 43. Glenn died shortly before 1 a.m. Central at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, according to the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office. Irving police are investigating the cause of the wreck at 12:18 a.m. on eastbound Highway 114, said Chelsey Jones, a police department spokeswoman. Glenn, a former star at Ohio State who lived in the Dallas area, was driving when the vehicle left the highway, struck a concrete barrier and rolled, authorities said. Glenn was ejected. Jones said his fiancée was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Her name and further details weren’t released. Jones had no immediate information on whether the couple wore seatbelts. Glenn played 12 seasons in the NFL, from 1996 to 2007, including 6 with the New England Patriots, 5 with the Cowboys and another season with Green Bay. He finished his career with 8,823 yards and 44 touchdowns.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL Hall of Fame class inducted

Tim Duncan and John Stockton, who became stars in college and icons in the NBA, headline the 2017 class inducted into the Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Monday night. Duncan led Wake Forest to four NCAA Tournament appearances before going first overall to the San Antonio Spurs in the 1997 draft. He went on to win five NBA titles and two MVP awards.

Stockton was a four-year star at Gonzaga before spending 19 seasons with the Utah Jazz. The duo was joined by Duke standout Jay Williams, Indiana’s Scott May, Purdue’s Rick Mount, Cleo Hill of Winston-Salem State, Creighton’s Paul Silas and longtime Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan. The induction occurred shortly before the start of a doubleheader at the adjoining Sprint Center, where UCLA faced Creighton and Baylor played Wisconsin in the CBE Classic.

BASEBALL Halladay crash report released

Retired star pitcher Roy Halladay sped his small sports plane low over the Gulf of Mexico minutes before his fatal crash two weeks ago, climbing sharply in the final seconds before diving into the water, federal investigators said in a preliminary report released Monday. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Noreen Price placed no blame for the Nov. 7 accident near Tampa, simply laying out the facts as gleaned from the plane’s data recorder and eyewitnesses. A final report with conclusions could take one to two years. Price said Halladay, 40, had taken off from a lake near his Tampa-area home about 17 minutes before the crash, taking his ICON A5 to 1,900 feet before dropping to 600 feet as he neared the coastline. He then dropped to 36 feet when he reached the water. While flying at about 105 mph, Halladay skimmed the water at 11 feet, flying in a circle before climbing to 100 feet, the plane’s data showed. A witness told investigators the plane climbed to between 300 and 500 feet when it turned and went into a 45-degree dive. It slammed into the water and flipped. Halladay’s body was found with the plane, which was severely damaged. The plane itself was equipped with a parachute, but it was not deployed.

SOCCER NWSL team in KC folds

The National Women’s Soccer League announced Monday it had reacquired the membership interest to two-time champion FC Kansas City, effectively folding one of its inaugural clubs after five seasons. The club had been in financial trouble and its future in limbo for the last several months. The decision came days after the NWSL announced it was beginning a team in Salt Lake City. The corresponding moves are not simply relocating a franchise, though, so the titles won by FCKC in 2014 and 2015 will not transfer to Salt Lake City. But because the league manages the contracts of all the players, the rights of any FCKC players will be assigned to the new team, which will begin playing its games in the 2018 season.