RALEIGH, N.C. — A former North Carolina football player filed a lawsuit against the ACC school and the NCAA, seeking reinstatement after being declared permanently ineligible for academic misconduct.
Defensive end Michael McAdoo also seeks unspecified damages from North Carolina and the NCAA, which the lawsuit accuses of libel and “gross negligence” in ruling him ineligible based on inaccurate information. McAdoo’s attorneys filed the lawsuit Friday in Durham County Superior Court, claiming he was “improperly and unjustly” declared permanently ineligible last November.
According to the complaint, the NCAA ruled that McAdoo was ineligible for receiving improper assistance from tutor Jennifer Wiley “on multiple assignments across several academic terms.”
But McAdoo’s lawyers argue that North Carolina’s Honor Court found him guilty of only one infraction: representing another’s work as his own after Wiley had formatted in-text citations and the “works cited” page for websites used to prepare his research paper.
The Honor Court decided to suspend him from school for the spring semester but allow him to re- enroll in the summer and then return to the Tar Heels’ football team this fall.
Purdue player found dead
MONTICELLO, Ind. — Authorities found the body of a Purdue football player in a northern Indiana lake two days after he was last seen going swimming during a party with friends.
Officers with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said the body of 22-year-old running back Sean Matti was found Tuesday morning in Lake Freeman, about 20 yards from shore. Autopsy and blood test results were pending.
Illinois player convicted felon
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A suspended Illinois football player arrested in an attack that police say may have been motivated by the victims’ sexual orientation has a previous felony conviction for cocaine possession. Chris Jones, a 20-year- old freshman defensive lineman from Jacksonville, Fla., faces an aggravated battery charge in the attack. He pleaded guilty last summer to cocaine possession.
Footnotes.
Texas’ new Longhorn Network, which launches Aug. 26 with a boost from ESPN, will provide the telecast of the Rice-Texas football game at Darrell Royal-Memorial Stadium in Austin on Sept. 3. The Longhorn Network also will televise a Texas game against a Big 12 Conference opponent.
• Defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, the nation’s top college football recruit this year, officially enrolled at South Carolina. Clowney registered for the second summer school session, allowing him to begin informal workouts with the Gamecocks.
• The 5,680-square-foot, five-bedroom house in York Township, Mich., where Rich Rodriguez lived while he was Michigan’s football coach is for sale. The asking price is $1.895 million.
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