Coroner Says Student Had an Enlarged Heart

A student who collapsed and died while trying out for the Northern Illinois football team had an enlarged heart, the coroner of DeKalb County, Ill., said Saturday.

Results of the autopsy on Jawan Jackson, 19, were inconclusive, but he “had a very enlarged heart for his size” and it appears he died of natural causes, coroner Dennis Miller said.

Miller said microscopic studies of Jackson’s heart muscle will be conducted, and could take up to two weeks.

He said there was no obvious cause of death.

Jackson, of the Chicago suburb of Robbins, died Friday after collapsing during conditioning drills.

Athletic trainers tried to resuscitate him before calling paramedics, the school said.

Northern Illinois officials said Jackson submitted a signed certificate indicating he had undergone a physical exam and was able to participate in tryouts.

Hawaii’s Nick Rolovich threw three touchdown passes in the first half to lead the South over the North, 45-28, in the Hula Bowl at Wailuku, Hawaii.

Nebraska’s Eric Crouch, the Heisman Trophy winner, completed four of 11 for 45 yards and had three passes intercepted.

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Pro Football

Oakland Raider defensive tackle Darrell Russell remained in jail on $1.2-million bail, a day after he was arrested with two men on suspicion of drugging and sexually assaulting a 27-year-old woman.

Russell will face seven counts of rape, Alameda Police Lt. Jim Brock said.

Russell is scheduled to appear in court Monday.

Russell, 25, is serving a one-year NFL suspension after testing positive for the drug Ecstasy, and the suspension’s terms block the Raiders from direct contact with him, said Bruce Allen, Raider senior assistant.

The office of Leigh Steinberg, Russell’s agent, told Associated Press that Steinberg had no comment.

Dozens of NFL players were defrauded of more than $40 million by their financial advisors since 1999, the players’ association estimates.

In a story appearing on newsstands Monday, U.S. News & World Report publishes its investigation of more than 20 investment deals involving current and former NFL players.

Tampa Bay defensive lineman Simeon Rice and Buffalo cornerback Antoine Winfield are among those who told the magazine details of how they were allegedly defrauded.

“Those are only the ones we know about,” union chief Gene Upshaw said Saturday.

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Winter Sports

Austria’s Stephan Eberharter won at St. Moritz, Switzerland, to clinch his first World Cup downhill title with two races remaining.

Renate Goetschl of Austria won at Are, Sweden, the final women’s World Cup downhill before the Salt Lake City Olympics.

Finland’s Veli-Matti Lindstrom set a hill record off the 120-meter jump in winning the K120 Lake Placid (N.Y.) Ski Jump Invitational.

Lindstrom won the open division with jumps of 126 meters and 135.5 meters, breaking the hill record of 133 meters.

American Alan Alborn finished second with jumps of 123.5 meters and 132.5 meters.

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Tennis

Top-seeded Martina Hingis defeated fifth-seeded Silvia Farina Elia, 6-0, 6-4, and third-seeded Monica Seles defeated Anna Kournikova, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, in the semifinals of the Toray Pan Pacific at Tokyo.

Defending champion and second-seeded Roger Federer beat fifth-seeded Greg Rusedski, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (4), and Davide Sanguinetti defeated Nicolas Escude, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, in the semifinals of the Milan Indoors in Italy.

Rick Leach and Ellis Ferreira rallied past Petr Pala and Pavel Vizner, 6-7 (6), 7-6, (2), 6-4, 6-4, to win the World Doubles Challenge Cup at Bangalore, India.

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Miscellany

Pitchers Orlando Hernandez and Ramiro Mendoza agreed to one-year contracts with the New York Yankees, Hernandez for $3.2 million and Mendoza for $2.6 million.... Catcher Pat Borders, 38, agreed to a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers, who invited him to spring training as a nonroster player. Borders spent most of last season at triple-A Durham in the Tampa Bay organization.... Americans John Field, Michael Durand and Duncan Dayton had their Lola prototype in the lead halfway through the Rolex 24 sports car endurance race at Daytona International Speedway. They had a three-lap lead over the Dallara of Belgium’s Didier Theys, Switzerland’s Fredy Lienhard and Italy’s Max Papis and Mauro Baldi.