Raiders RB Josh Jacobs facing DUI case after crash in Vegas
LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas Raiders running back Josh Jacobs received minor injuries and was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after a pre-dawn single-vehicle crash Monday near McCarran International Airport, authorities said.
A Las Vegas police report said Jacobs, 22, was taken to a hospital for treatment of a cut on his forehead after an air bag deployed when the 2019 Acura NSX sports car he was driving crashed into a tunnel wall at the Las Vegas airport, prosecutor Eric Bauman said.
Police at the scene determined the 5-foot-10, 220-pound Jacobs was impaired by alcohol, and blood was drawn at the hospital, Bauman said. Laboratory results can take several weeks.
Jacobs was booked at the Clark County jail on a misdemeanor driving under the influence charge and released without bail pending a court appearance March 8, said his attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld.
The attorneys noted that no charge was immediately filed by prosecutors.
“We intend to enter a not guilty plea on behalf of Mr. Jacobs if he is ever charged,” they said.
Jacobs lives in Las Vegas, Chesnoff said. It was not immediately clear if Jacobs had just returned to Las Vegas from Denver, where the Raiders defeated the Broncos, 32-31, in their final NFL regular season game. That was less than 12 hours before the 4:43 a.m. crash.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
While Gonzaga and Baylor remain firmly atop The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll, Shaka Smart and fourth-ranked Texas are making a push into the rankings’ top tier, too.
The top-ranked Zags and second-ranked Bears remained 1-2 in Monday’s latest Top 25 as they have all season. But the Longhorns jumped four spots after a lopsided weekend win at Kansas to earn the program’s highest ranking under their sixth-year coach, as well as its first top-5 ranking since February 2011.
Jay Wright’s plan to resume coaching No. 3 Villanova following a bout with was put on hold
when two players tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing the program to postpone its next three games.
Oregon’s run in the top 10 of The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll is over after 64 consecutive appearances.
The Ducks fell to No. 11 in the AP Top 25 released a day after the team’s 27-game winning streak ended with a two-point loss to then-No. 11 UCLA.
Stanford, which received 27 of 30 first-place votes from a national media panel, has not played a home game since its season opener on Nov. 25, playing — and winning — two games apiece in Las Vegas; Berkeley; Los Angeles and Arizona.
NBA
Brooklyn Nets ruled All-Star forward Kevin Durant will have to complete a seven-day quarantine, which would also rule him out of four games including tonight’s game against Utah, a person with knowledge of the situation said.
Durant, who had coronavirus in May, tested negative in recent days, the person told AP. That would indicate Durant was exposed to someone who has tested positive for coronavirus, based on the protocols the NBA and NBPA are using.