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Sports in Brief: BCS leaders veto playoff
Bowl Championship Series officials yesterday rejected a plan to turn the much-criticized system for deciding a national football champion into a four-team playoff.
There was no vote at the meeting in Hollywood, Fla., the commissioners said. But the leaders of the Big East, Big Twelve, Pacific Ten and Big Ten made it clear they did not want to move the BCS toward a playoff in any way.
The BCS format will remain the same until at least the 2014 season.
In related news, the Big East announced a partnership with the new St. Petersburg Bowl to match a Big East team against a team from Conference USA at Tropicana Field beginning this season.
The PapaJohns.com Bowl in Birmingham, Ala., which had matched a Big East team against a Conference USA opponent, now will match the Big East against an opponent from the Southeastern Conference.
A judge in Birmingham, Ala., threw out the $5 million verdict an Alabama football fan won in his lawsuit accusing the NCAA of slander, ruling that jurors were swayed by prejudice.
Circuit Judge William Gordon granted the NCAA's request for a new trial in a lawsuit filed by timber dealer Ray Keller. He claimed the NCAA slandered him when it announced penalties against Alabama in 2002 by referring to him and others as "rogue boosters" and "parasites."
Elsewhere: St. Joseph's Debbie Bateman, a junior from Mainland High in Atlantic County, has been named the Atlantic Ten Conference student-athlete of the year in women's rowing. . . . The NCAA said it would not reconsider its decision to deny Cincinnati quarterback Ben Mauk another year of eligibility. . . . Nebraska offensive lineman Andy Christensen is scheduled for a July trial on charges that he sexually assaulted a woman at a Lincoln bar in March. . . . The College World Series will be played in Omaha at least through 2030 under an agreement reached by the NCAA and the city.
Delaware State honored senior punter Josh Brite and senior softball player Jessica Chrabaszcz for earning the highest GPAs among DSU athletes this academic year. Both posted perfect 4.0s. . . . Chase Robinson, a 6-foot-3 guard who was a finalist for Alabama's Mr. Basketball award at Lee High in Huntsville, signed a letter of intent with Duquesne.
A judge in Birmingham, Ala., threw out the $5 million verdict an Alabama football fan won in his lawsuit accusing the NCAA of slander, ruling that jurors were swayed by prejudice.
Circuit Judge William Gordon granted the NCAA's request for a new trial in a lawsuit filed by timber dealer Ray Keller. He claimed the NCAA slandered him when it announced penalties against Alabama in 2002 by referring to him and others as "rogue boosters" and "parasites."
Elsewhere: St. Joseph's Debbie Bateman, a junior from Mainland High in Atlantic County, has been named the Atlantic Ten Conference student-athlete of the year in women's rowing. . . . The NCAA said it would not reconsider its decision to deny Cincinnati quarterback Ben Mauk another year of eligibility. . . . Nebraska offensive lineman Andy Christensen is scheduled for a July trial on charges that he sexually assaulted a woman at a Lincoln bar in March. . . . The College World Series will be played in Omaha at least through 2030 under an agreement reached by the NCAA and the city.
Delaware State honored senior punter Josh Brite and senior softball player Jessica Chrabaszcz for earning the highest GPAs among DSU athletes this academic year. Both posted perfect 4.0s. . . . Chase Robinson, a 6-foot-3 guard who was a finalist for Alabama's Mr. Basketball award at Lee High in Huntsville, signed a letter of intent with Duquesne.
