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College football around the nation

By Compiled from Times wires

© St. Petersburg Times, published October 6, 2000

Clemson sees no violations

CLEMSON, S.C. -- Clemson has completed an internal investigation into allegations that two recruits received improper benefits from a school booster.

"We have not found any inconsistencies with NCAA policy," Becky Bowman, Clemson's associate athletic director for NCAA compliance, said Thursday.

The review followed allegations that two Gaffney High players got summer jobs and cars from a booster. NCAA investigators were in Gaffney on Tuesday.

Defensive end Jeff Littlejohn and linebacker Roger McIntosh have orally committed to play for Clemson; those commitments are not binding.

Littlejohn said he got paid the same and did the same kind of work as other employees of booster Lamar Greene. Littlejohn's family also produced bank paperwork showing they bought his 1994 Jeep Cherokee.

Bowman said the NCAA is not investigating the school. The governing body of college sports must notify schools when they are under investigation.

MERCER TRIAL: Heather Sue Mercer testified she didn't complain about the Duke coach's suggestion she take up beauty pageants because she hoped to play for him for several years.

"I had three years left, and this was my coach," she said under cross-examination in Greensboro, N.C. "I would not give a thought to going over his head. This is someone I wanted to work with."

A day earlier, Mercer testified that in 1995, then-coach Fred Goldsmith told her she was no longer needed on the team. "Why do you insist on playing football?" she quoted him as saying. "Why not try something like beauty pageants?"

Mercer, a 1998 Duke graduate, is suing the university, claiming her gender was the sole reason she was cut as a placekicker. She is seeking damages for emotional distress, humiliation and depression.

Her attorneys rested their case Thursday; Duke will begin presenting witnesses today.

TENNESSEE: Center Fred Weary had surgery to insert a screw in his injured right ankle and will miss the rest of the season.

Doctors operated after examining Weary and discovering the ankle remained unstable. Weary injured the ankle against Florida on Sept. 16.

PENN STATE: A Hudson County, N.J., grand jury began taking testimony Tuesday in the case of Penn State quarterback Rashard Casey, charged with aggravated assault. Casey and a friend are charged in the May beating of off-duty Hoboken police officer Patrick Fitzsimmons. Casey has pleaded innocent.

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