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Published Sat, Jul 31, 2010 02:23 AM
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NCAA talks to Clemson players

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The Associated Press

Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips said Friday that the NCAA had been on the Tigers' campus this week to talk with two members of the football team.

Phillips issued a statement Friday about the visit, but did not say what the inquiry was about. Phillips also did not identify the athletes but said Clemson is cooperating fully.

"We do not have reason for concern," Phillips said.

The NCAA is investigating Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina in connection with possible rules violations at a party in Miami.

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney did not return messages Friday left by The Associated Press. However, Swinney has said that his players are educated about the rules regarding contact with agents and he won't hesitate disciplining those who break them.

"You can't legislate integrity," he said at the ACC's football gathering in Greensboro last week. "People are still going to do things wrong. It sounds like the NCAA is trying to send a real strong message. I think it's a good thing."

The NCAA's contact with Clemson means both of the state's major football programs have had to respond to inquiries from the governing body. Earlier this month, South Carolina tight end Weslye Saunders spoke with NCAA officials about his possible link to the South Beach gathering.

Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier said Wednesday he had no update on Saunders' status.

Clemson and South Carolina begin summer practice Tuesday night.

More football

FSU, NCAA paying legal fees: Florida State and the NCAA are paying $325,000 in legal fees to compensate the attorneys of news media companies that sued to force the release of documents in the Seminoles' academic cheating scandal.

The records were part of an NCAA investigation that eventually implicated 61 athletes and stripped the school of victories in 10 men's and women's sports.

Florida State and the NCAA tried to block the release in a series of appeals. But the Florida Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision determining the records were public and refused in May to reconsider the case.

Big 12 not in danger of losing BCS bid: Bowl Championship Series executive director Bill Hancock says the defections of Nebraska and Colorado from the Big 12 will not influence the BCS.

Hancock spoke Friday at the Mid-American Conference's media day in Detroit.

Nebraska announced recently that it will leave the conference for the Big Ten, while Colorado plans to join the Pac-10, along with Utah. The two defections leave the Big 12 with only 10 teams.

Hancock says: "As far as the BCS's future and operation, there's no effect."

He also says any potential playoff system would have to include 16 teams, although he wants it known he's not in favor of a playoff system for college football.

Basketball

Huggins' fall due to meds: West Virginia University says basketball coach Bob Huggins' rib-breaking fall occurred because medication taken on an empty stomach left him lightheaded.

President James Clements and athletic director Oliver Luck told the Charleston Daily Mail that Huggins stood too quickly, tripped and fell into a table in his Las Vegas hotel room last week.

WVU spokeswoman Becky Lofstead on Friday confirmed the report. She wouldn't say what the medication was.

Huggins broke seven ribs and was hospitalized for several days.

Last summer, Huggins got two black eyes when he walked into a door in the middle of the night.

In 2008, he was checking phone messages on an airport tarmac when he tripped on a cone, fell and hit his head.

Golf

Sumrall wins tournament: Duke sophomore Adam Sumrall posted a 2 & 1 win over top-seed Eric Steger on Friday to win the Indiana Golf Association Match Play Championship at Prairie View Golf Club in Carmel, Ind.

From Duke news release

Track

St. Aug's Copeland honored: St. Augustine's high jumper Christopher Copeland was named Division II scholar male field athlete of the year for the 2010 indoor track and field season Friday by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

St. Aug's news release

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