Falcons’ Michael Turner arrested on suspicion of drunk driving

Atlanta Falcons running back Michael Turner was jailed on suspicion of drunk driving and speeding early Tuesday, just hours after he scored a touchdown in the team’s win over the Denver Broncos.

Turner, 30, of Suwanee, Ga., was booked into the Gwinnett County jail in metro Atlanta just after 5 a.m. Turner spent barely two hours behind bars before he was released on $2,179 bond, jail records showed.

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Group will advise how to distribute Penn State penalty money

A 10-member task force has been named to come up with guidelines for how to distribute the record $60-million fine that Penn State will pay in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, the NCAA said Tuesday.

The money will fund programs designed to combat child sexual abuse and help victims around the country. The task force will set policy for the endowment and hire a third-party administrator who will choose which nonprofit groups receive funding each year.

“This fund will exist, presumably, for a long, long time, and putting it together right, putting a good solid foundation under it, a thoughtful philosophy under it, is just going to mean it will be an effective, respected source of funding in this area for a long time,” said task force member Nan Crouter, dean of Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development.

The NCAA imposed tough sanctions on Penn State over its handling of sex-abuse allegations against Sandusky, a retired assistant football coach convicted of abusing 10 boys over 15 years.

Penn State agreed to pay $12 million a year for the next five years into an endowment to fund programs for the detection, prevention and treatment of child abuse.

An NCAA spokeswoman declined comment on a timetable for the first distribution of funds.

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Cristiano Ronaldo scored in the 90th minute Tuesday as Real Madrid came back earn a 3-2 victory against Manchester City in a Champions League opener at Madrid that turned into a wild shootout over the last 25 minutes.

City goalkeeper Joe Hart let Ronaldo’s dipping shot slip past him after Madrid striker Karim Benzema had equalized in the 87th minute at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium.