Cal’s Garbers out indefinitely with shoulder injury
Cal will be without starting quarterback Chase Garbers indefinitely because of an apparent shoulder injury he suffered in Friday’s loss to Arizona State.
Garbers was scrambling when he fell on his throwing arm late in the second quarter against the Sun Devils. After being taken to the locker room for examination, Garbers emerged in the second half wearing a splint.
Coach Justin Wilcox declined on Monday to say what the nature or severity of Garbers injury is, saying only that it is an upper body injury.
“I feel awful for Chase,” Wilcox told Sports Illustrated. “I thought he was really coming into his own.”
Devon Modster, who struggled in the second half after replacing Garbers, will start Saturday against at No. 13 Oregon.
The loss to the Sun Devils knocked the Golden Bears out of the Top 25.
UNC’S BROWN HAS NO REGRETS >> North Carolina coach Mack Brown said he doesn’t regret going for a failed 2-point conversion late to upset then-No. 1 Clemson.
The Tigers stopped Sam Howell’s keeper with 1:17 left for a 2120 win. But Brown said Monday he would “absolutely, 100 percent” play for the lead if he had it to do over again instead of kicking the extra point to force overtime with a “depleted” defense against the reigning national champions.
The 68-year-old College Football Hall of Fame member said he wasn’t worried about criticism, saying there was “freedom to be this age and to have won this many games and be able to do what you think is best for your team.”
Clemson dropped to No. 2 after the close call at UNC, which visits Georgia Tech on Saturday. PURDUE TO BE SHORTHANDED VS. PENN STATE >> Coach Jeff Brohm said Purdue (1-3) will face No. 12 Penn State without starting quarterback Elijah Sindelar or AllAmerican receiver Rondale Moore.
Sindelar will have surgery for a broken left collarbone. Brohm did not provide a diagnosis on Moore’s left leg injury, though he hoped to have more information later this week. Purdue’s top two offensive players were hurt on the same play in Saturday’s loss to Minnesota. WILLIAMS’ HEISMAN FOR SALE, AGAIN >> Brian Hobbs remembers getting a call in 2014 to let him know Ricky Williams was interested in selling his Heisman Trophy.
An avid sports memorabilia collector, Hobbs drove from his home in Tallahassee, Florida, to meet Williams in Austin, Texas, where the former Longhorns star was finishing the undergraduate degree he had not completed when he left school for the NFL in 1999.
“He took me on a tour of the Texas football stadium and the different areas around there,” Hobbs told The Associated Press by telephone.
And then he returned home with the Heisman Trophy that Williams won in 1998. Hobbs is now selling the trophy as part of the Heritage Auctions’ Fall Sports Memorabilia Collectibles offerings.
“I’ve had it in my collection a long time and I can’t keep everything, so I thought this was good timing for the trophy,” Hobbs said. “(Texas’) football program is doing well, and it’s a very highly sought-after trophy . ... The timing seemed like the right time for the next collector to have it.”
Hobbs would not disclose how much he paid for the trophy. Heritage has estimated its value could reach $500,000, topping the auction record set last December when Tim Brown’s 1987 version was sold $435,763. Williams’ Heisman is the last one awarded before trophy winners were required to sign an agreement forfeiting the right to sell it.
Two other Heisman trophies were sold at auction last year: Clint Frank’s 1937 trophy went for $312,000; Rashaan Salaam’s 1994 award for $399,000. Heismans sold at auction previoiusly: Larry Kelley (1936), for $328,100 in 1999; O.J. Simpson (1968) for $255,000 in 1999; Bruce Smith (1941) for $394,240 in 2005; and Charlie White (1979) for $293,750.