Seminoles suspend five wide receivers

Campus brawl leads to punishment

Five Florida State wide receivers will miss tonight's homecoming game against Boston College for their roles in a midweek campus fight, coach Bobby Bowden said Friday.

Taiwan Easterling, Bert Reed, Corey Surrency, Cameron Wade and Richard Goodman will sit out Saturday's crucial ACC contest in Tallahassee, Fla.

"The police report has not been concluded but from the information that I have gathered, I'm suspending five players who were apparently involved," Bowden said.

Maj. James Russell of the Florida State University Police Department said Bowden's decision was based on independent information obtained by the coach and that the department's investigation was going forward.

Russell said no arrests were imminent, but that he expected multiple charges sometime next week based on results from the investigation.

Russell had earlier said the melee apparently stemmed from bad blood between some of the athletes and members of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.

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FIRST PORTION OF SBI REPORT ON ECU INCIDENT DELIVERED: Prosecutors say the State Bureau of Investigation has started to deliver a report on the confrontations between law enforcement officers and some East Carolina football fans earlier this season.

District Attorney Clark Everett told the Greenville Daily Reflector that he received the first portion of the SBI's investigative report Wednesday.

Fans rushed the field Sept. 6 after the Pirates defeated then-No. 8 West Virginia 24-3. Video showed fans being knocked to the ground by some officers and the university received complaints about police brutality on the field.

Everett said it will likely be weeks before he can draw any conclusions from the SBI's work.

BASKETBALL

CAMPBELL OPENS IN NEW ARENA: Campbell will play its first regulation games in its new John W. Pope Jr. Convocation Center/Gilbert Craig Gore Arena when the men's and women's team face nonconference opponents today.

The men's team takes on Chowan at 8:15 p.m. The Camels women will face Coker beginning at 6 p.m.

FALCONS PLAY OPENERS: The St. Augustine's men's and women's basketball teams begin their seasons today.

The men's team meets Mercyhurst (Pa.) College in the Davis & Elkins College Tournament in Elkins, WVa., at 5 p.m.

The women's team faces Nova Southeastern University in the NSU Marriott Tip-Off Classic in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., at 5 p.m.

FRIDAY'S RESULTS

FOOTBALL

NO. 22 CINCINNATI 28, LOUISVILLE 22: Tony Pike threw for 250 yards and two touchdowns and visiting Cincinnati (8-2, 4-1 Big East) remained in the hunt for the conference title with a win over reeling Louisville (5-5, 1-4).

The victory gives the Bearcats a half-game lead over idle West Virginia and No. 21 Pittsburgh in the conference title race.

WOMEN'S SOCCER

DUKE 5, RADFORD 1: Five Blue Devils scored goals as No. 15 Duke defeated visiting Radford in the opening round of the NCAA College Cup. Duke will face William & Mary on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in the second round.

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