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NFL: RG3 cleared, Geno inked, trade voided VON MILLER: The latest distraction for the Denver Broncos comes from All-Pro linebacker Von Miller, who insisted Monday he did nothing wrong in the face of reports he could miss four games for violating the NFL’s drug policy. “I know I did nothing wrong. I’m sure this’ll be resolved fairly,” Miller tweeted.
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ROBERT GRIFFIN III: He has passed a major test toward his goal of playing in Week 1, getting the go-ahead from the team doctors days before the Washington Redskins open training camp. “Doctors cleared me to practice. Coach is going to ease me in,” Griffin announced Monday on Twitter.
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Legion Continued from B1 The Nampa Chiefs finally came alive in the bottom of the sixth inning while sitting in a 4-0 hole against Treasure Valley when Mike Metzger slugged an RBI double to give Nampa its first run of the game. There looked to be a possible transition in momentum, but Metzger was stranded at second. Leaving runners on base was a challenge all game for Nampa, even though run support is normally easy to come by. “We’re too good of hitters to not hit throughout the game,” Anderson said. “My job was keeping us close enough so we could stay in it.”
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Together, they are expressing their desire for college football’s big boys to find a way to continue to create separation from the rest of the NCAA. As if the SEC’s seven straight national championships weren’t enough. Money matters to these conferences, and they have plenty of it. The Big Ten and Pac-12 networks each garnered around $250 million. The SEC’s new net-
GENO SMITH: The New York Jets signed quarterback Geno Smith, their second-round draft pick, to a four-year contract that is worth about $5 million. Smith, drafted 39th overall after an unexpected slide out of the first round, is competing with incumbent Mark Sanchez for the starting quarterback job. —AP
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Bowlsby says NCAA needs changes now COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Monday there is “unanimity” among leaders from five power conferences that significant changes are needed now in the NCAA. “We all have a sense that transformative change is going to have to happen,” Bowlsby said at the start of the Big 12’s football media days. “This is not a time when trimming around the edges is going to make very much difference.” Bowlsby and the commissioners of the SEC, Big Ten, Pac 12 and ACC met about six weeks ago to discuss issues, including an NCAA legislative system that makes it difficult to enact substantial changes or enforce the rules in place. There are also huge gaps in resources between schools in the same divisions. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive, whose league has won AP the last seven national titles MLB: Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Golden Tate throws out the first in football, delivered a simipitch of a baseball game between the Cleveland Indians and the Seattle lar message last week at his Mariners on Monday in Seattle. league’s media days. “It’s bad grammar but a good concept: If we always part of such a division. There is no regional 11U do what we’ve always done, “If you begin trying to tournament. we’ll always get what we’ve put together homogeneous FERNANDA JOINS VANDALS: always got,” Bowlsby said. groups, somebody gets Idaho women’s basketball “That’s kind of where we are included, and somebody coach Jon Newlee finalized right now.” gets left out. ... Wherever his roster for the 2013-14 ACC Commissioner John you draw those lines, if season with the addition of Swofford also addressed the they’re bright lines, you have Agueda Fernanda, a 6-foot issue Monday, saying signifi- controversy,” he said. “I’m freshman guard who will be cant changes could be put in pretty dyed in the wool of a 3-point shooting threat for place when the NCAA has its the NCAA, and I believe with the Vandals. annual convention in Januall my heart that a solution Fernanda averaged 21 ary. Bowlsby even indicated inside the organization is points and 6.3 rebounds the possibility of a special the right one. Whether Divi- per game in high school, convention. sion IV is the right one, the and was ranked as the No. 2 Before taking over as the devil’s in the details.” player on the Baleric Islands Big 12 commissioner just (Spain). more than a year ago, Bowls- Nampa 11U team wins title IHMELS ADDS TO STAFF: by had been a long-time Boise State head cross counLOCALLY: Evan Harmon athletic director — serving try and track and field coach was hit by a pitch with the at Stanford, Iowa and North- bases loaded in the bottom Corey Ihmels added Travis ern Iowa. Bowlsby said his Hartke and Grant Wall as asof the eighth inning, bringthoughts about the NCAA sistant coaches for 2013-14. ing home the winning run are “driven by frustration and giving the Nampa Valley Babcock to coach Canada more than anything else. 11U Little League team the And that’s been a frustration state championship with a NHL: Mike Babcock will that’s grown over the last 15 9-8 win against Lewiston on return as coach of Canada’s years.” Sunday. Olympic hockey team. A real consideration Nampa Valley took the The Detroit Red Wings could be a separate division best-of-three series after coach will have the St. Louis for the top football-playing dropping the opener 15-8 on Blues’ Ken Hitchcock, Dallas schools, for which Bowlsby Friday. The team responded Stars’ Lindy Ruff and Boston said he is listening and with a 14-9 win on Saturday, Bruins’ Claude Julien as aslearning about many differ- rallying after being down sistants at next year’s Sochi ent models. 8-2. Games. Therein lies what can beWith their win on Sunday, Babcock led Canada to come another difficult issue: Nampa Valley finishes the gold at the world championdetermining who would be season as state champions. ships in 2004.
work next year will likely eclipse that mark. But these conferences want more money and more power to do things, such as give players stipends if are for it and, say, Boise State is not. “With 130 FBS institutions, with budgets from $130 million to $15 million, there’s quite the disparity,” Mountain West Conference commissioner Craig Thompson said. That’s what Slive, Swofford and Bowlsby are stating: their football programs don’t relate with the small-budget programs and shouldn’t have to play by the same rules. Bowlsby went as far as to say it
may be time to consider a federation within the NCAA. Maybe even without it. Slive and Swofford said basically the same. It’s likely that Delany and Scott will deliver similar messages. Right now, the leaders of power conferences are having hypothetical conversations, which Thompson believes is healthy. “This is the right time and place to have these conversations now that apparently memberships have kind of stabilized and we know who’s going to be where, hopefully, for a couple years anyway,” he said.
But the fact that leaders of these heavyweight conferences are wanting even more separation in college football and, possibly, college athletes altogether, than there already is, should raise some eye brows. Constant conversations about more and more growth and bigger and better paychecks and exposure cannot last forever. Somewhere down the line, college football has to plateau, whether in the SEC or the Mountain West. “Just the budgets in the Mountain West have doubled and in some cases almost tripled since we started 14 years ago, and I just don’t know how all sustainable
CARLOS HYDE Ohio State coach Urban Meyer has disciplined four players for legal problems, including suspending leadingscorer Carlos Hyde from all team activities in the wake of an alleged assault against a female over the weekend in Columbus. In addition, star cornerback Bradley Roby, who was arrested in Indiana for an altercation with a security guard at a bar this past weekend, will not represent the Buckeyes at this week’s Big Ten media days. He was one of the players initially selected to speak to reporters at the annual event. Freshmen recruits Marcus Baugh, a tight end, and defensive lineman Tim Gardner were also disciplined on Monday. There were published reports earlier in the day that Hyde had been kicked off the team for being listed as a person of interest in the alleged assault of a woman at a downtown Columbus bar. The Columbus Dispatch cited sources saying Hyde was dismissed from the team over the incident early Saturday. Hyde, a 6-foot, 242-pound senior from Naples, Fla., rushed for 970 yards on 185 carries last season, second best on the team behind quarterback Braxton Miller, and was the unbeaten Buckeyes’ leading scorer with 17 touchdowns and 102 points.
P.J. HAIRSTON Authorities have dismissed charges against North Carolina basketball leading scorer P.J. Hairston from a traffic stop last month. Hairston was arrested June 5 and charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession and driving without a license at a checkpoint in Durham, N.C. But prosecutors dismissed those charges Friday afternoon after Hairston produced proof he had a driver’s license and had completed a drug assessment program, said Elizabeth Tapley with the Durham County clerk of court’s office. The drug assessment determines whether a person has a drug problem, Durham County district attorney Leon Stanback said Monday afternoon. In a phone interview, Stanback said it’s a common way for his office to handle first-time offenders on a misdemeanor marijuana charge. “That’s a standard operation,” Stanback said.
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that is,” Thompson said. “You can only keep generating so much revenue. The TV/media packages are all-time absolute high. We have to worry about attendance, we have to worry about gift giving and sponsorships, we have to worry about contributions from all the various alumni. I don’t know how you can keep giving and giving and giving and growing and growing and growing. “It’s just gotten to the point the argument’s about: ‘we need a bigger and better mouse trap.’ I don’t know where the end game might be.” CC MM YY KK