RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina released documents showing a group of Tar Heels football players accumulated more than $13,000 in parking citations over a 3 1/2-year period.
The school released the documents Thursday, a day after the state Court of Appeals denied the school’s request to delay the release of those records pending an appeal. A Wake County Superior Court judge ruled in April the school withheld documents it should have provided to requesting media outlets covering the NCAA investigation into the football program.
The documents reveal the players combined for 395 citations between March 2007 and August 2010, though the records don’t specify which players received each violation. The total amount of the citations was $13,185.
The university said the citations include records for 11 players requested by the media as well as an additional player, whom the school said had 68 tickets. Of the 395 citations, the school said 30 remain unpaid.
The NCAA informed the school it plans to complete its investigation this month.
Shaq accused of link to attack
LOS ANGELES — Members of a Los Angeles street gang are facing charges in the 2008 beating of a man who claimed he had a sex tape of Shaquille O’Neal and that the former NBA star was behind the attack.
Sheriff’s department records showed investigators probed allegations that O’Neal was connected to the attack, but O’Neal denied any involvement and has not been charged.
According to a sheriff’s report, Robert Ross told investigators he was kidnapped at gunpoint by Main Street Crips gang members in West Hollywood in February 2008 and taken to the home of the gang’s alleged leader, Ladell Rowles. He said the gang members beat him, stole $15,000 in cash and some jewelry.
Ross said Rowles demanded a purported videotape of O’Neal having sex with a woman other than his wife and $100,000, according to the sheriff’s investigative report.
Take 42 away from Calipari’s 500
LEXINGTON, Ky. — It turns out Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari hasn’t reached 500 career victories after all.
The school said it will change Calipari’s career record because of 42 vacated victories from his time at Memphis and Massachusetts. In a statement, Kentucky said it had consulted with the NCAA and determined it was “in error” to have celebrated Calipari’s 500th career win against Florida on Feb. 26.
• Georgia Tech forward Brian Oliver, the team’s third-leading scorer last season at 10.5 points a game, said he is transferring.
Footnotes.
Colombian cyclist Juan Mauricio Soler was placed in intensive care because of severe brain injuries suffered after a crash during the Tour of Switzerland.
• Venus Williams lost to Daniela Hantuchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 in the quarterfinals of a Wimbledon warm-up tournament in Eastbourne, England.
• Animal Kingdom has a small fracture to the cannon bone in his left hind leg that will keep the Kentucky Derby winner out for several weeks.
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