Sooner Players Charged in Disturbance
Two Oklahoma football players were charged with malicious injury to property in connection with a disturbance last week that started at a sports bar and spilled over to a university-owned apartment complex.
Assistant District Attorney Irby Taylor said outside linebacker Anthony Davis and starting linebacker Dale Boyd Allen Jr. were charged with misdemeanors for damage at the apartment complex. Allen and Davis have been given until Monday to surrender to authorities.
Taylor said the charges carry a maximum sentence of up to a year in jail and a fine of $1,000.
Oklahoma Coach John Blake suspended Allen from the team. Davis already had been suspended.
Blake also suspended defensive end Shaq Brown and cornerback Pee Wee Woods for the Baylor game today for violating curfew.
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The University of Connecticut Board of Trustees voted to upgrade the football program to Division I-A and build a campus stadium that can seat 35,000 spectators.
The state legislature now must approve the plan to move from Division I-AA and build on a 100-acre site on campus before the university can accept an invitation to the Big East Conference.
The transition to Division I-A will take place over several years. The school is expected to play its first full-conference schedule in 2004.
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