COLLEGE FOOTBALL DAILY REPORT : AROUND THE NATION : Three Investigated for Ties to Agent

The NCAA has obtained documents showing a professional sports agent bought disability insurance for Texas Christian tailback Andre Davis, a former teammate and a Jackson State receiver, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Documents obtained by the NCAA reportedly show Houston lawyer Jeffrey Newport bought disability insurance for the three last December.

A check for $5,940 was drawn Dec. 29, 1994, on Newport’s account and made payable to Pro Financial Services of Schaumburg, Ill., the chief U.S. correspondent for Lloyd’s of London.

A notation on the check indicates the policy was for Davis, Jackson State’s Greg Spann and former Horned Frog receiver Jimmy Oliver.

Under NCAA rules, student-athletes may not receive disability insurance through an agent. An athlete found to have violated the regulations can lose his eligibility and must seek to have it restored by the NCAA.

The Texas Secretary of State’s office is looking into whether Newport, 40, violated any laws in his dealings with the three and said it became interested Saturday when TCU suspended Davis, the school’s third-leading career rusher.

TCU is conducting its own investigation.

Jackson State officials, who suspended Spann from the Tigers’ game with Grambling State last Saturday, are working with the NCAA to determine the nature of Spann’s dealings with Newport.

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Big 12 Conference athletic directors took no action on a proposed championship football game, saying they wanted more information from ABC on how much it was willing to pay to televise the game.

ABC apparently has offered $2.5 million for a championship game between the winners of the new conference’s two divisions. The league--which is being formed by the additions of Texas, Texas A&M;, Texas Tech and Baylor--to the Big Eight, begins play next season.

Presidents of the new Big 12 schools will meet Nov. 30 in Kansas City and would want to make a decision at that time.

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Missouri receiver Rahsetnu Jenkins pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors, and prosecutors dropped a felony rape charge against him. Jenkins, 21, had been accused of raping a female acquaintance in Columbia, Mo.

He pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual misconduct and third-degree assault and was sentenced to a one-year’s suspended sentence and two years’ supervised probation on the sexual misconduct charge, and 60 days in the county jail on the assault charge. The 60 days will be served beginning Dec. 16, the day after the fall semester ends.