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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville JaguarsAlabama safety players have been questioned about a shooting outside a Gainesville nightclub following the Gators' los to Auburn, police said Monday.

Nelson's agent, Hadley Engelhard, confirmed that Nelson was at The Venue on Saturday night but said he left three hours before the shooting.

"He wasn't even there," Engelhard said. "He knows nothing. He's not a witness. He wasn't involved in any altercation. It's much ado about nothing."

A number of people who witnessed the shooting told officers Nelson was "around the victims throughout the night," said.

Nelson, an All-American at Florida last season and a first-round draft pick by the Jaguars in April, agreed to meet with police Sunday morning.

said three Florida players also were questioned, but he declined to release their names.

"Their names came up from people in a crowd," said. "We wanted to verify some stories."

According to police, 28-year-old Corey Smit and 19-year-old Justin Glass were driving in traffic around 2:30 a.m. when a man walked up to their car and started shooting.

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Smith was shot in the upper body. Glass was shot in the arm. Their conditions were not immediately available Monday.

Nelson, meanwhile, spoke to the Jaguars about the incident Monday in hopes of setting the record straight. The Jaguars were off Sunday, which allowed Nelson to attend the game in nearby Gainesville.

"Based on the information we have gathered from authorities, Reggie and others, we're confident that Reggie was not involved in the unfortunate incident," Jaguars team spokesman Dan Edwards said.

 

 

 

 

 

 

7/23/08  

 

Alleged victim's mother prompts Iowa to look at response

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Iowa's Board of Regents will meet Tuesday to discuss letters sent by a mother who accused the University of Iowa of mishandling its response to her daughter's allegations of being sexually assaulted by two football players.

In two letters sent to school president Sally Mason, the mother accused officials of encouraging her daughter, an Iowa athlete herself, to pursue resolution "informally" and within the athletic department. She said the family was told that it would be faster than the "arduous" process of involving police. The family eventually went to the police.

A copy of the first letter, sent in November 2007, was recently provided to the Iowa City Press-Citizen by the mother. Officials declined to release a copy of the second letter, which was sent in May.

Abe Satterfield and Cedric Everson, who have left the football team, are accused of sexually assaulting the woman on Oct. 14, 2007, at a campus dorm. Everson has been charged with second-degree sexual assault and Satterfield has been charged with second- and third-degree sexual assault. Both have pleaded not guilty.

Last month, the board said its investigation showed the university appropriately handled the allegations.

Regents president David Miles said he learned of the letters on Friday. He said part of the discussion Tuesday will be about why the regents didn't know about them before.

"I was shocked that we were not told about them sooner," Miles told The Associated Press.

"It means that we don't have the answer yet. It doesn't mean they did not handle it properly ... what it means is a report that we thought took into account all of the information, was based on incomplete information, so we have additional work to do," Miles said.

The mother said her daughter met with athletic department officials including athletic director Gary Barta, associate athletic director Fred Mims, football coach Kirk Ferentz and Betsy Altmaier, a university faculty member who serves as liaison to the Big Ten and NCAA. The athlete also met with her own coach.

"I believe that the university did not handle this situation in a professional way that followed university protocol and compliance to its own rules set out in the code of student conduct," the mother said in the November letter.

In a telephone interview with the Press-Citizen, she said: "We were told the school will take care of it. 'We will keep it in-house. We will be swift. We will be just, and you don't have to worry about it.'"

E-mails and telephone messages left Monday for Barta, Ferentz and Mims were not immediately returned.

The university released a statement saying it had compassion for the alleged victim and her family. But it also said: "At all times, she and her family had the ability to determine whether to pursue this matter within the university or outside of it, and we repeatedly informed them of those options."

The university said it "fully supported" the student's decision to file a criminal report.

 

Ex-Arizona State coach Snyder has cancer   

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Former Arizona State football coach Bruce Snyder says he has cancer.

Snyder issued a statement through the university's sports information office confirming that he has cancer, though he wasn't specific about the kind or severity.

In the statement, the 68-year-old former coach said he appreciates the public support, but he also asked for privacy.

Snyder, the 1996 NCAA coach of the year, went 58-47 in nine seasons for the Sun Devils. He was dismissed after the 2000 season despite getting to the Aloha Bowl.

Snyder previously coached at California and Utah State.

 

Oregon redshirt freshman drowns after jumping from bridge 

EUGENE, Ore. -- A redshirt freshman on the University of Oregon football team has died after trying to swim the McKenzie River during an inner-tube trip down the river.

The university said in a statement that 19-year-old Todd Doxey was with several teammates Sunday afternoon in the Cascade Range stream.

It said that most of the party started down the river, but Doxey decided to jump off a bridge.

He swam across the current toward a boat ramp. But, the Lane County sheriff's office says, he tired and couldn't hold his head above water.

A fisherman in a drift boat retrieved him and began administering CPR.

He was listed initially in critical condition but died about 8 p.m. Sunday at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene.

Doxey was a graduate of Hoover High School in San Diego.

                          

 

 

 

 

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