MISSISSIPPI FOOTBALL IMPOSES REDUCTIONS IN ITS SCHOLARSHIPS
oxford, miss.» Mississippi has self-imposed scholarship reductions in football because of NCAA violations and is still investigating more allegations involving first-round NFL draft pick Laremy Tunsil.
The Southeastern Conference school released its 154-page response Friday to the notice of allegations received in January. The NCAA’s investigation began in 2012 after a university probe discovered academic and recruiting misconduct involving the women’s basketball program. Ole Miss later acknowledged the investigation had spread to its football and track and field programs.
“The University has accepted responsibility for the violations that occurred and self-imposed meaningful penalties,” Ole Miss said in its response. The school said that it “erred toward the upper limits” of the range of each penalty imposed.
The penalties — which the NCAA can accept or add to — didn’t include a postseason ban in football, which faces eight Level I violations qualifying as severe breaches of conduct and 13 altogether.
Ole Miss’ self-imposed penalties to the football program include three years of probation and 11 fewer total scholarships over four years starting with the most recent recruiting class.
Retests reveal Olympic doping
B london» Nearly two dozen athletes tested positive in reanalysis of their doping samples from the 2012 London Olympics, adding to the more than 30 already caught in retesting from the 2008 Beijing Games.
The International Olympic Committee said Friday that 23 athletes from five sports and six countries had positive findings in retests with improved techniques on 265 samples from the London Games.
Prep baseball games postponed.
Friday’s high school baseball games in the championship series at four sites were postponed because of rain.
As for changes, in Class 5A and Class 4A, the games that were to be played at noon and 2:30 p.m. Friday have been switched to 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
For 3A, Butch Butler Field in Greeley was pelted with rain and hail Thursday. Friday’s games there were moved to Saturday, although they will follow the original time frame.
Concerning 2A in Pueblo, the Andenucio and Hobbs fields at the Runyon Complex took a lot of moisture overnight and into Friday, so semifinals games were moved to Sunday.
Blackmon highlights faith event.
Charlie Blackmon and Nick Hundley of the Rockies are taking time out from their busy baseball schedule to speak at Saturday’s Colorado Athletes for Christ Outreach event.
The program, which starts at 9 a.m., will be at the Events Center Arena at the National Western Stock Show Complex.
Blackmon and Hundley will be joined by Britton Colquitt and Shiloh Keo of the Broncos, Matt Duchene and Jack Skille of the Avalanche, Jared Watts of the Rapids and Dan Issel, a former Nuggets player and coach who is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Molder leads by stroke at Colonial
B fort worth, texas» Bryce Molder had a one-stroke lead with three holes to play in the second round at Colonial when play was suspended because of darkness.
At 9-under-par, Molder was a stroke ahead of Webb Simpson and two in front of second-ranked Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed. Simpson and Spieth completed their second rounds at the Dean & Deluca Invitational.
Simpson was 8-under after a 67. Spieth shot a 66 with four birdies in five holes after turning to the front nine. Reed had 10 holes left. He has a PGA Tour-high eight top-10 finishes this season.