REINSTATEMENT TO TEAM UPHELD BY APPEALS COURT

A federal appeals court is allowing an Ohio man convicted of rape as a teenager to play Saturday.

The court declined to block a judge’s decision to allow 21year-old Steubenville resident Ma’lik Richmond to play for Youngstown State for at least the next 14 days.

Youngstown State appealed the decision Friday morning. The court dismissed the school’s appeal that afternoon.

Richmond sued the university after it allowed him to join the football team, then told him he couldn’t play this season.

He is seeking reinstatement to the team’s active roster along with attorney fees and an unspecified amount in damages.

A preliminary hearing on the injunction is set for Sept. 28.

Richmond served about 10 months in a juvenile prison after he and a Steubenville High School teammate were convicted in 2013 of raping a 16-year-old girl. The case brought international attention and led to allegations of a coverup to protect Steubenville’s storied football team.

Brothers charged in stabbing.

Two brothers who played college football and were featured in the Netflix series “Last Chance U” have been charged in connection with a fatal stabbing in Tennessee.

Camion Patrick and Isaiah Wright are among four men charged in connection with the death of Caleb Radford on July 25. Radford, 18, was found stabbed multiple times on a street in Louisville, Tennessee. On Aug. 3, Alcoa (Tenn.) police announced the arrests of two suspects: Keshawn Hopewell, 21, and Itiq Green, 28.

No. 22 USF routs Illinois.

Quinton Flowers threw for 280 yards and four touchdowns and No. 22 South Florida returned from a Hurricane Irma-imposed layoff to rout Illinois 47-23. Flowers moved ahead of Matt Grothe and B.J. Daniels into second place on USF’s career touchdown pass list with 53.

FIU adds to its schedule.

FIU has a full 12-game football schedule again.

The Panthers struck a deal to play host to UMass on Dec. 2, unless FIU is playing in the Conference USA championship game that day. The game fills the hole on FIU’s schedule created by the cancellation of this weekend’s planned matchup at Indiana.

Spartans help in Houston.

A group of nine Michigan State players are spending their only football-free weekend of the fall in Houston helping some of the city get back on its feet in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

The Spartan traveling party includes two players who grew up in the Houston area.