North Carolina, NCAA facing a former Tar Heel's lawsuit

RALEIGH, N.C. A former North Carolina football player filed a lawsuit against a ACC school as well as a NCAA, seeking reinstatement after being declared permanently ineligible for academic misconduct. Defensive end Michael McAdoo also seeks vague damages from North Carolina as well as a NCAA, which a lawsuit accuses of libel as well as "gross negligence" in ruling him ineligible based on inaccurate information. McAdoo's attorneys filed a lawsuit Friday in Durham County Superior Court, claiming he was "improperly as well as unjustly" declared permanently ineligible last November. According to a complaint, a NCAA ruled that McAdoo was ineligible for receiving improper assistance from tutor Jennifer Wiley "on multiple assignments across several academic terms." But McAdoo's lawyers argue that North Carolina's Honor Court found him guilty of only one infraction: representing another's work as his own after Wiley had formatted in-text citations as well as a "works cited" page for websites used to prepare his research paper. The Honor Court decided to suspend him from school for a spring semester though allow him to re- enroll in a summer as well as afterwards return to a Tar Heels' football group this fall. Purdue player found dead MONTICELLO, Ind. Authorities found a body of a Purdue football player in a northern Indiana lake two days after he was last seen going swimming during a party with friends. Officers with a Indiana Department of Natural Resources pronounced a body of 22-year-old running back Sean Matti was found Tuesday morning in Lake Freeman, about 20 yards from shore. Autopsy as well as blood test results were pending. Illinois player convicted felon CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A suspended Illinois football player arrested in an attack that police contend may have been motivated by a victims' sexual orientation has a previous felony conviction for cocaine possession. Chris Jones, a 20-year- old freshman defensive lineman from Jacksonville, Fla., faces an aggravated battery charge in a attack. He pleaded g! uilty la st summer to cocaine possession. Footnotes. Texas' new Longhorn Network, which launches Aug. 26 with a progress from ESPN, will provide a telecast of a Rice-Texas football game at Darrell Royal-Memorial Stadium in Austin on Sept. 3. The Longhorn Network also will televise a Texas game against a Big 12 Conference opponent. Defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, a nation's top college football recruit this year, officially enrolled at South Carolina. Clowney registered for a second summer school session, allowing him to proceed informal workouts with a Gamecocks. The 5,680-square-foot, five-bedroom house in York Township, Mich., where Rich Rodriguez lived while he was Michigan's football coach is for sale. The asking price is $1.895 million. The Associated Press