Wednesday was quite a day for legal- and penalty-type sports action.
A ban between four former players and their university ended ? kind of ? in Michigan.
A pro golfer who never helped his professional image is suing the PGA for doing its job.
NASCAR realized the error of its ways and reduced a driver?s penalty.
If the University of Michigan desires, Chris Webber, Louise Bullock and Maurice Taylor can have a relationship with their former school for the first time in 10 years. The three former basketball Wolverines basketball players and the late Robert Traylor were forced into a decade-long disassociation for their part in a scandal that involved the late Ed Martin.
For 10 years the players couldn?t help in recruiting, participate in fundraising or receive tickets or privileges not awarded to the general public. Their records are gone. The banners celebrating their national championships are in a drawer behind a locked door.
The four were penalized because of ?their involvement in violations of NCAA rules? and for their refusal to cooperate with university and NCAA investigators as they looked into Martin?s habit of providing gifts and money to recruits.
Even though the disassociation has technically ended, the former players remain on the ?do not call? list until the school says it wants to renew the relationship.
Vijay Singh will tee it up with J.J. Henry and Robert Garrigus in the first two rounds of the Players Championship. It should be interesting to see how the world?s No. 111-ranked player fares in the days after suing the PGA Tour for unspecified monetary damages.
He claims the Tour subjected him to ?public humiliation and ridicule for months? by suspending him for using deer antler spray that contained the banned substance IGF-1. Singh admitted using the spray, but appealed the 90-day suspension because he didn?t believe the ingredient in his spray was the same one on the World Anti-Doping Agency?s banned list.
After further testing, the PGA Tour determined the ingredient does not help athletes, dropped it from the banned list and cleared Singh.
Singh issued a statement that read: ?I am proud of my achievements, my work ethic, and the way I live my life. The PGA Tour not only treated me unfairly, but displayed a lack of professionalism that should concern every professional golfer and fan of the game.?
Matt Kenseth, Joe Gibbs and their racing team snared a big off-track win from the NCASCAR Stock Car Racing Commission appeals panel Wednesday afternoon.
The three-man panel restored many of the driver and car owner?s points lost after Kenseth?s car failed inspection after he won the STP 400.
Instead of 50-point penalties, Kenseth and Gibbs were docked 12 points each and all other penalties for the two were rescinded, including the suspension of Gibbs? owner?s license. Crew chief Jason Ratcliff?s fine of $200,000 was not altered, but his suspension was reduced from six events to one and he will be on probation through the completion of the next three points events.
Kenseth?s car failed when inspection revealed one of eight control rods measured approximately two grams below the minimum weight of 525 grams specified by NASCAR.
If you don?t know how little that is, think two cotton balls.
Source: http://www.pennlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/05/university_of_michigan_vijay_s.html
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