Nits' Moye hurts foot
PENN STATE senior wide receiver Derek Moye has a foot injury, according to the PSU football website Fightonstate.com. The report said Moye, the team's leading receiver with 28 catches for 485 yards and three touchdowns, did not practice yesterday and he is wearing a protective boot.
PENN STATE senior wide receiver Derek Moye has a foot injury, according to the PSU football website Fightonstate.com.
The report said Moye, the team's leading receiver with 28 catches for 485 yards and three touchdowns, did not practice yesterday and he is wearing a protective boot.
Moye's status for Saturday's home game against Purdue is unknown.
Noteworthy
* The NCAA said it found no major violations committed by Auburn regarding Cam Newton or other pay-for-play allegations and has concluded multiple investigations of the program.
The NCAA released a statement saying it has closed its 13-month investigation into Auburn's recruitment of the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, whose father shopped his services to another school for nearly $200,000. The dark cloud of the investigation hovered over the program during the Tigers' national championship run.
The NCAA also cleared Auburn in allegations by four former players that they received payments during their recruitment or careers.
The NCAA notified Auburn of the decision on Tuesday in a letter from associate director of enforcement Jackie A. Thurnes. Auburn released it yesterday.
Thurnes said NCAA enforcement staff and the university conducted more than 50 interviews into whether Newton was paid to sign with Auburn and examined documents including bank records, tax filings and phone and email records.
The NCAA agreed with Auburn's self-report from Nov. 30, 2010, that Cecil Newton and the owner of a scouting service, Kenny Rogers, shopped Cam Newton's services to Mississippi State out of junior college, but that there was no evidence the player or Auburn knew about it.
* Florida Atlantic's athletic director says his long list of possible candidates to succeed coach Howard Schnellenberger includes former coaches Mike Leach, Randy Shannon and Jim Leavitt. The 77-year-old Schnellenberger, the coach since the program's first season in 2001, plans to retire at the end of this year. The program reaches a milestone Saturday when it christens a $70 million, 30,000-seat on-campus stadium.
Athletic director Craig Angelos said he'll begin a formal search for Schnellenberger's successor soon and hopes to hire someone around the end of the season.
Leach coached at Texas Tech, Shannon at Miami and Leavitt at South Florida. All were fired within the past 2 years.
* No. 14 Nebraska has lost defensive tackle Jared Crick for the season with a torn pectoral muscle. Coach Bo Pelini disclosed the severity of the injury yesterday as the Huskers (5-1, 1-1 Big Ten) head into their bye week. Crick, a 6-6, 285-pound senior, ranks eighth on the Nebraska career sacks list with 20, including 9.5 in both 2009 and 2010.