College Football
Same 4 teams top the latest playoff rankings
Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State and Notre Dame remained at the top of the College Football Playoff selection committee rankings.
Iowa stayed at No. 5 and Oklahoma State moved up to No. 6, one spot ahead of Big 12 rival Oklahoma.
Woman reports rape at home of Huskers’ QB, WR
LINCOLN, Neb. – Police said Tuesday they were investigating a report of a sexual assault at the residence of Nebraska quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. and standout receiver Jordan Westerkamp.
Officer Katie Flood said a 20-year-old woman went to a Lincoln hospital Sunday and said she had been raped. The woman told police she knows the suspect, and Flood said that person was contacted.
Flood said no arrests had been made.
Armstrong told the Omaha World-Herald that he, Westerkamp and another roommate, tight end Trey Foster, have spoken with police.
“After talking to us, (the police) said you guys should be fine,” he told the newspaper. He also told the World-Herald he didn’t know why the woman went to police, adding, “From what we’re hearing, everything was consensual.”
MLB
Maddon, Banister selected Managers of the Year
NEW YORK – Joe Maddon won his third Manager of the Year award, earning his first in the NL after guiding the Chicago Cubs to their first postseason berth since 2008.
Maddon became the seventh manager to win the award three times and the seventh to earn it in both leagues. He won the AL award with Tampa Bay in 2008 and ’11.
Texas’ Jeff Banister was given the AL honor, the fifth first-year big league manager to win the award.
NFL
Raiders linebacker Smith suspended for a year
ALAMEDA, Calif. – Oakland Raiders linebacker Aldon Smith was suspended Tuesday by the NFL for one calendar year because of violations of the league’s substance-abuse policy.
Smith, 26, was released by the San Francisco 49ers in August after a list of run-ins with the law before landing across the bay with the Raiders.
Smith was in a contract year. He started seven games and played in nine for the Raiders, finishing his second consecutive suspension-shortened season with 28 tackles and 3.5 sacks.
Olympics
Russian track team still can make it to Rio
COLORADO SPRINGS – The author of the report that detailed anti-doping corruption in Russia believes the country that spent $51 billion on hosting the Sochi Olympics should be able to fix its system in time to get the track team to next year’s Summer Games.
Remaking Russia’s attitude toward doping could take longer, but Dick Pound doesn’t think that’s the most urgent matter.
“I don’t think you’ll get the culture fixed in nine months but you can do actions that will come to the same result,” Pound said.
Skiing
3-time Austrian Olympic skier dies in car crash
VIENNA – The Slovenian ski federation said three-time Olympic slalom skier Drago Grubelnik died Tuesday after the car he was driving swerved off a mountain road and rolled down a hill in the Austrian resort of Soelden.
Grubelnik took part in three Olympic slaloms from 1998-2006, with 13th in 2006 his best result. He reached one World Cup podium, in 2000, and retired seven years later. He had been head coach of the Bulgaria ski team since 2013.
Associated Press
