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Long
Jumper Dillon named C-USA track athlete of the week
TCU
long jumper Cleavon Dillon was named the Conference USA male track
athlete of the week for the week ending April 6, the conference
office announced Tuesday.
Dillon,
a freshman from St. Clair, Trinidad and Leavenworth, Kan., finished
second in the long jump at the Texas Relays behind LSU standout
and U.S. Olympian Walter Davis. Dillon posted an NCAA provisional
mark of 7.89 meters, or 25 feet, 10 and three-quarters inches, ranking
first in the conference and third in the country this season. Dillon
finished fourth at the NCAA Indoor Championships last month.
Dillon
and the Flyin’ Frogs will be in action again this weekend when
they travel to College Station to compete in the Texas A&M Invitational
on Saturday.
Rush
to enter NBA draft, forego senior season
COLUMBIA,
Mo. (AP) —Kareem Rush, Missouri’s second-leading career
scorer who helped the Tigers reach the NCAA regional finals this
year, will skip his senior season and enter the NBA draft.
“I’m
going to go after this 100 percent,” Rush said at a news conference
Wednesday. “I look forward to giving this my all and playing
in the league next year.”
Rush
hasn’t hired an agent, a move that would prohibit his return
to Missouri under NCAA rules. He has until a week before the June
26 draft to change his mind, and refused to rule out that chance,
but he backed away from earlier statements that he would enter the
draft only if projected as a lottery pick.
“I
plan on being one (a lottery pick),” Rush said. “I’m
going to go out there and prove I should be one.”
The
6-foot-6 Rush is a two-time All-Big 12 pick who averaged 19.8 points
this season. Missouri lost 81-75 to Oklahoma in the West Regional
final.
But Rush struggled at times, often when facing double-team defenses,
and was criticized for sometimes relying too much on 3-point shots.
In
84 games at Missouri, Rush averaged 18.9 points, second only to
Derrick Chievous’ 19.9 average from 1985-1988.
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Notre Dame players accused of raping a 20 year old woman
SOUTH
BEND, Ind. (AP) —Police are investigating accusations that
three Notre Dame football players and a former player raped a female
student who was lured to a house with promises of a party.
The
woman told investigators she was raped March 28 but waited until
last Saturday to report the crime because she knew it would be a
high-profile case and feared her name would be made public.
The
players’ names were not released because investigators have
not decided whether they will be charged, St. Joseph County police
Capt. Harry Seider said Wednesday.
“They
are still doing the investigation and interviewing people,”
he said.
Notre
Dame spokesman Dennis Moore said the university was aware of the
investigation but that the school could not comment because of federal
law protecting student confidentiality. He said the university was
conducting its own investigation.
The
police report said a university hearing was scheduled for April
17. Moore said he could not comment on the hearing.
Notre
Dame coach Tyrone Willingham did not immediately return a telephone
message left at his office. John Heisler, associate athletic director,
said no players were being held out of spring practice for disciplinary
reasons.
The
20-year-old woman said she was at a bar on March 27 and started
talking to the four men. She said one of them told her there was
a party at his house, but when she got there, there was no party.
She
told police the men took turns raping her in a bedroom while the
others held her down.
She
said she was screaming and “attempting to do her best to fight
them off.” After the attack, one of the men drove her back
to campus, she said.
She
went to a hospital on April 2 and called police on Saturday after
seeking counseling, police said.
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