BRIEFLY SEC DECIDES TO VETO TIEBREAKING VOTE.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services The Southeastern Conference won't be embarrassing itself with a vote. If there's a three-way tie in the East, it will be broken the old-fashioned way - on the field. Well, sort of. The SEC hastily adopted a new tiebreaking formula Friday that would use, if needed, the Bowl Championship Series standings to determine who plays in the league's Dec. 6 title game. During a conference call, SEC athletic directors unanimously adopted the new rule so they wouldn't be put in the position of voting on which SEC East team - Florida, Georgia or Tennessee - goes to Atlanta. In the event of a three-way tie, the highest team in the BCS (1) (The British Computer Society, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, www.bcs.org) The chartered body for information technology professionals in the U.K., founded in 1957. standings would represent the East, with one caveat. If the top two teams are within five places of each other in the BCS, the head-to-head winner would go to the title game. If Georgia, Tennessee and Florida win their remaining conference games, they would wind up in a three-way tie for the East championship. The first six tiebreaker tie·break·er n. An additional contest or period of play designed to establish a winner among tied contestants. Also called tiebreak. tie steps would not break the deadlock. --Mississippi and the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association are investigating how tailback Ronald McClendon paid for a car he bought several weeks ago. Salesman Ralph Pinner, contacted at Prestige Auto where he works, told the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. on Friday he had been interviewed by Ole Miss compliance director David Wells This article is about David Wells, American baseball player. For other uses, see David Wells (disambiguation). David Lee "Boomer" Wells (born May 20, 1963 in Torrance, California) is a Major League Baseball player who is currently a starting pitcher for the Los . ``They just asked me if the sale was in cash,'' Pinner said. ``I said, 'No, it was a check.' '' Pinner said he remembered McClendon saying he would have to borrow the money. Pinner declined to discuss any contact he had with NCAA representatives. --Penn State receiver Tony Johnson
Tony Johnson is a former American football wide receiver. He played collegiately at Penn State football from 2000 to 2003. waived his right to a preliminary hearing on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol. Johnson was arrested Oct. 17 when a university police officer reported seeing Johnson's car cross the middle line. A blood test indicated Johnson had a blood-alcohol level of 0.136 percent. The legal limit in Pennsylvania is 0.08 percent. Paperwork filed in Centre County Court in Bellefonte, Pa., this week indicates Johnson plans to plead not guilty to the DUI charge. His arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted is scheduled for Dec. 1. COLLEGES: University of Washington athletic director Barbara Hedges said she has received a nine-month contract extension. Hedges' $255,000 contract extension, signed Oct. 1, runs through June 30. The contract was first reported by The News Tribune of Tacoma in Thursday's editions. SOCCER: Manchester United will return to the United States for another preseason tour next summer. The English Premier League champion announced it will have a news conference with coach Alex Ferguson in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of on Tuesday with Champions World LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , the promoter of its U.S. tour last summer. That tour included a 3-1 victory over Club America at Home Depot Center in Carson. BASKETBALL: Florida guard Anthony Roberson was suspended for two exhibition games and the season opener for violating university policy. Coach Billy Donovan did not say what Roberson did. RUNNING: British sprinter Dwain Chambers was suspended after it was confirmed he tested positive for the steroid THG THG Tom's Hardware Guide THG Tetrahydrogestrinone THG Third Harmonic Generation (laser physics) THG The Humble Guys (hacker group) THG The Holmes Group . UK Athletics in London said it was notified by the sport's world governing body that analysis of the backup B sample matched the positive A test. Chambers, the European 100-meter champion, was suspended pending a British disciplinary hearing. He faces a minimum suspension of two years and a lifetime Olympic ban. SOFTBALL: Harvard-Westlake High of Studio City softball pitcher Shelly Madick has committed to Harvard. |
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