NASCAR crews, not drivers, punished for
fight
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[November 05, 2014]
NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers Jeff
Gordon, Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski avoided fines after a fight on
pit row Sunday at the AAA Texas 500, but crew chiefs and crew members
received penalties on Tuesday resulting from the brawl at Texas Motor
Speedway.
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Gordon's crew chief, Alan Gustafson, and Kasey Kahne's crew
chief, Kenny Francis, were hit with $50,000 fines and put on
probation through the end of the season, which has six races left.
Gustafson and Francis were cited for violating a rule that states
the crew chief assumes responsibility for the actions of his team
members.
Kahne crew member Jeremy Fuller and Gordon crew members Dwayne
Doucette and Jason Ingle were each fined $25,000 and suspended for
the next six Sprint Cup Series championship points races. Dean
Mozingo, who is on Gordon's crew, was fined $10,000 and suspended
for the next three Sprint Cup Series championship points races as a
result of his involvement in the altercation.
WNBA
A man wielding a knife cut WNBA center Brittney Griner's elbow
during an attack in China, but she was not seriously injured,
according to her agent.
Griner did not require hospitalization to treat the injury, which
was considered superficial. She was wearing a winter coat when a man
ran at the players swinging a knife and yelling at them while they
were on the way from a practice arena to the team bus. A teammate
also was stabbed, but she was protected by jackets and not injured.
The man chased the team onto the bus and it reportedly took five
minutes before he left on his own. The motive for the attack was not
immediately known.
Griner, a member of the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, is in her second
season playing in China for Beijing Great Wall.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston faces a university
discipinary hearing to be heard by a former Florida Supreme Court
judge the week of Nov. 17.
The focus of the hearing is whether an alleged sexual assault
involving Winston violated the student conduct code. The legal team
representing the woman who made the allegation in December 2012
shared the date first with USA Today.
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Winston was not charged in the incident because the State's
Attorney's office, which launched a delayed investigation do to
mishandling of the case by the police department, found inconclusive
evidence that a violent crime took place after consulting witnesses
and the victim. The investigators made the final conclusions without
interviewing Winston.
Major Harding, a former Supreme Court judge in Florida, will conduct
the investigative hearing.
---South Carolina lineman Na'Ty Rodgers was reinstated to the
program after coach Steve Spurrier said the redshirt freshman had
left the team and was pursuing a transfer.
Spurrier said Sunday that Rodgers struggled with adhere to team
rules and they came to an agreement that he might be better off
elsewhere. But after Rodgers talked with the coaches on Monday, they
agreed that he would stay.
The 6-foot-5, 280-pound Rodgers has moved from the offensive line to
the defensive line. He did not play against Kentucky in October
after violating team rules and was not in uniform for Saturday's
loss to Tennessee.
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