Bowden suspends five for fighting
Associated Press
Saturday, November 15, 2008

Five Florida State wide receivers will miss tonight's homecoming game against Boston College for their roles in a midweek campus fight, coach Bobby Bowden said Friday.

Taiwan Easterling , Bert Reed , Corey Surrency , Cameron Wade and Richard Goodman will sit out the crucial Atlantic Coast Confer-ence contest.

"The police report has not been concluded but from the information that I have gathered, I'm suspending five players who were apparently involved," Bow-den said.

Maj. James Russell , of the Florida State University Police Department, said Bowden's decision was based on independent information obtained by the coach and that the department's investigation was going forward.

Russell said no arrests were imminent, but that he expected multiple charges sometime next week based on results from the investigation.

Russell had earlier said the melee apparently stemmed from bad blood between some of the athletes and members of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.

PRESBYTERIAN: The Blue Hose will step up in competition to face Clemson in 2010.

Presbyterian is in its second Division I season. It will take on the Tigers on Sept. 11, 2010.

The Blue Hose compete in the Football Championship Subdivision.

WEST VIRGINIA: Two players facing battery charges have been indefinitely suspended from the team.

Coach Bill Stewart announced the suspensions of 21-year-old running back Maxwell Anderson and 21-year-old special teams holder Jeremy Kash .

Stewart said in a news release that he had no further comment.

Morgantown Police Sgt. Harold Sperringer has said both players were charged with misdemeanor battery after an Oct. 25 fight at a Morgantown bar.

ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF: Coach Monte Coleman suspended 10 players, most for breaking curfew, ahead of today's final home game against Mississippi Valley State.

Nine of the players were suspended for breaking a 10 p.m. curfew while the team was in Little Rock last week preparing to face Grambling State. Safety Robert Mingo , was suspended after missing practice last week.

The suspensions include four senior starters: receiver Bruce Peters , defensive end Ladarius Anthony , defensive back Jermaine Clemmons and defensive back Stewart Franks .

From the Saturday, November 15, 2008 edition of the Augusta Chronicle
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