Ricky Stenhouse Jr. gets fourth Nationwide Series win

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. used a late push from runner-up Brad Keselowski to pass Kevin Harvick and win the Nationwide race at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday night.

After a restart with three laps to go, Harvick lost the lead on the final lap as his car got loose coming out of Turn 2 and, Stenhouse, who was bumped by Keselowski on the front straightaway, went ahead for good in Turn 3.

Stenhouse, the defending series champion, raced to his fourth Nationwide victory of the season, and moved within 12 points of leader Elliott Sadler.

Keselowski got into a heated argument after the race with Harvick, who accused him of throwing a water bottle out of his car to cause an earlier caution flag.

Harvick, who led 157 of the 195 laps, failed to win a Nationwide race for the eighth time when leading the most laps.

ETC.

USC dismisses Maurice Jones

USC men’s basketball starting guard Maurice Jones, the team’s leading returning scorer, has been dismissed from the team for academic reasons, according to two people close to the program who spoke on the condition of anonymity because his dismissal has not yet been made public.

Jones, who was entering his junior season, averaged a team-high 13 points a game last season when the Trojans finished 6-26. The people said the 5-foot-7 guard out of Saginaw, Mich., would be eligible to return to the team after sitting out a season, but it is unclear whether he would do so or whether the team would accept him back.

—Baxter Holmes

A 20-year-old man from Tennessee who plunged about 35 feet from the upper level of the Georgia Dome and struck another fan during the Tennessee-North Carolina State game Friday has died, authorities said.

The man fell on another fan seated in the mezzanine area during the game, the Georgia World Congress Center Authority, which operates the downtown Atlanta football stadium, said in a statement.

The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said that Isaac Grubb of Lenoir City, Tenn., was pronounced dead Friday night, minutes before midnight, at an Atlanta hospital. Grubb had fallen about 35 feet and appeared to have suffered injuries from blunt-force trauma.

“He passed away at the hospital,” investigator Leon Harrison told AP by telephone, adding an autopsy was planned Saturday morning.

The other fan was a man who was subsequently treated at another hospital and released.

The fall occurred a day after a 25-year-old fan tumbled about 60 feet from a fifth-floor escalator at Reliant Stadium in Houston during a preseason Houston Texans game. Jonathon Kelly died from the fall during the Thursday night game against the Minnesota Vikings.

To Honor And Serve edged favored Mucho Macho Man by a neck in a long stretch drive Saturday in the $750,000 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in New York.

Ridden by John Velazquez, the Bill Mott-trained 4-year-old ran 11/8 miles in 1:48.65 and paid $9.30, $3.60 and $2.60 for his second victory in four starts this year.

Executiveprivilege rallied in the stretch to beat pacesetter Beholder in the final stride and win the $300,000 Del Mar Debutante by a nose, giving Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert his 101st career stakes win at Del Mar.

Ridden by Rafael Bejarano, Executiveprivilege ran seven furlongs on the synthetic surface in 1:23.43 and paid $3.60, $2.60 and $2.10 as the 4-5 favorite in the Grade 1 race for 2-year-old fillies.

The New England Patriots acquired receiver Greg Salas from St. Louis, claimed offensive lineman Matt Tennant off waivers from New Orleans, and released linebacker Bobby Carpenter.

The Seattle Seahawks waived tight end Kellen Winslow, keeping true to past form of tinkering with their roster even after final training camp cuts are made.

Winslow didn’t have much impact during preseason games, but was thought to be a key element of Seattle’s offense.