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07.22.05: Big
Ten stirs the pot of shifting bowl alliances |
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07.21.05: Cal,
AF, road trip to Memphis on Vols' 2006 slate ... Mississippi
Valley State hires former USM coach |
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07.20.05: Revamped
Big East striving to hold on to respect |
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07.19.05: Rocky
Mountain football rivalry up in the air |
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07.18.05: 'One-year
rule' presents quandary for recruiters |
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07.17.05: Williams
unaware 'graduation gifts' prohibited |
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07.16.05: Kansas
acknowledges violations under Williams |
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07.15.05: Big
12, Big East divvy up Gator, Sun Bowl spots |
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07.14.05: South
Carolina fesses up to "major" infractions ...
Player nabbed for trying to pass funny money |
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07.13.05: Football
player dies after conditioning drills |
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07.12.05: BCS
rolls out new 'human poll' to plug AP void |
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07.11.05: Arsonist
sues school for barring him from team |
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News Nuggets, 07.23.05
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ECU alum Mike Sutton taken off respirator
COOKEVILLE, TN — Tennessee Tech
basketball coach Mike Sutton, fighting a rare illness that attacks the
immune system, has been taken off a respirator, his wife said Friday.
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Mike Sutton
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Sutton, a native of Farmville, had been
on a ventilator since early April when he became ill with Guillain-Barre
Syndrome, an inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nerves that causes
paralysis. He stopped using the ventilator Monday.
``It just happened really quickly,''
Sutton's wife Karen told the Cookeville Herald-Citizen. ``The respiratory
people saw a lot of improvement and were prodding him along to get off the
ventilator. Once you're off, it's time to move on.''
Sutton, 49, was moved Thursday from a
hospital in Nashville to a private room at Cookeville Regional Medical
Center.
A 1978 graduate of East Carolina,
Sutton was a longtime assistant to Tubby Smith at Tulsa, Georgia and
Kentucky before taking over the Golden Eagles' program in 2002.
Sutton has a 51-38 record during his
three seasons at Tennessee Tech.
Jury slaps recruiting guru with $30 million verdict
TUSCALOOSA — A jury awarded $30 million
to former Alabama assistant coach Ronnie Cottrell on Friday in his
defamation lawsuit against former recruiting analyst Tom Culpepper.
Jurors awarded Cottrell $6 million in
compensatory damages and $24 million in punitive damages.
Cottrell's suit claimed Culpepper
defamed him by saying he stole money from the Shaun Alexander Foundation,
that he stole videotapes from the University of Alabama after his dismissal,
and that he abandoned his first wife and family in Tallahassee.
Cottrell and another former Tide
assistant, Ivy Williams, filed suit nearly two years ago against Culpepper
and the NCAA, claiming they were unable to find comparable employment
following the NCAA's investigation and sanctions against Alabama.
Cottrell is currently the head coach at
Carroll High School in Ozark.
Earlier this week, Tuscaloosa Circuit
Judge Steven Wilson threw out all claims against the NCAA, leaving only
Cottrell's suit against Culpepper, who was a secret witness against Alabama
in the investigation.
Wilson also reversed a previous ruling
Thursday in a move that made it easier for Cottrell to prove his claims
against Culpepper. Wilson ruled that Cottrell should be considered a private
figure by the jury, rather than a limited-access public figure, as he had
previously ruled.
The defense rested its case Thursday
and both sides presented closing arguments earlier Friday.
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compiled periodically based on material supplied by staff members; data
published by ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools; and reports from Associated Press and
other sources. Copyright 2005
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