CLEMSON FLAGGED FOR NCAA VIOLATIONS
» Clemson’s national
C O LUMBIA, S. C . championship football program was flagged for eight NCAA violations during a year-long period from July 2018 through this past June.
The school’s athletic department released a summary of the infractions Wednesday.
None of the violations was considered major, and all issues about the penalties have been resolved, according to the school. In all, Clemson selfreported 14 violations in the year ending on June 30.
Names of athletes, coaches or staffers involved in the infractions were not in the summary provided to The Associated Press by Clemson. The month and day when the violation occurred was blacked out in the report.
The football violations reported by the school included a homeowner paying a player above the going rate for work around the home on three occasions.
Two violations involved players on social media in a promotional capacity.
The other five infractions were committed by football staffers and included reimbursing an athlete for ground transportation expenses above the school’s mileage rate.
Others involved the school publicizing the signing of a football recruit before he had signed with the program. Another was for the football staff impermissibly mailing out a printed questionnaire to 221 prospects about life-skills programming before Sept. 1 of their junior years in high school.
Minnesota fish lived to be 112.
» A fish collected by a MINNEAPOLI S
North Dakota State University graduate student from a Minnesota lake has been verified as the oldest freshwater fish ever taken.
Radiocarbon dating verified that the female bigmouth buffalo fish taken from Crystal Lake near Pelican Rapids in Otter Tail County last summer was 112. It was one of five bigmouth buffalo that Alec Lackmann found in the area that were more than 100 years old.
The Star Tribune reports Lackmann and his team recently published their findings in the journal Communications Biology.
Bigmouth buffalo resemble carp and are often dismissed as “trash fish.”
Agent certification draws attention.
There are concerns about the NCAA’s new requirements allowing men’s basketball players to sign with an agent during the NBA draft process while maintaining college eligibility.
The measures — which notably now include requiring agents to have a bachelor’s degree — have drawn criticism from an attorney who has worked on numerous NCAA eligibility cases, at least one agent and NBA all-star LeBron James via Twitter, among others.
The NCAA rule permitting Division I men’s players to obtain an agent yet still return to school after withdrawing from the draft was part of recommendations from the Commission on College Basketball.
The change took place last August, with the first wave of early draft entrants allowed to sign with an agent certified by the NBA players union in the spring.
Kaepernick “still ready” for NFL.
Colin Kaepernick says he’s “still ready” to return to the NFL, even though he is set to enter his third season out of the league.
In a video posted Wednesday on social media, the 31-year-old Kaepernick is shown working out in a gym. He says in the video: “5 a.m. 5 days a week. For 3 years. Still Ready.”
Nadal advances in straight sets.
Top-seeded Rafael Nadal opened his Rogers Cup title defense by beating England’s Daniel Evans 7-6 (6), 6-4 in a second-round match delayed by rain three times.
Also, Serena Williams won her first match since losing the Wimbledon final, beating Elise Mertens of Belgium 6-3, 6-3 in the second round.