FOOTBALL
Mayfield punished
Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield won't start Saturday's regular-season finale against West Virginia, Sooners Coach Lincoln Riley announced Monday. Mayfield won't be a team captain either, Riley said during an emotional press conference announcement Monday morning. Mayfield was spotted grabbing his crotch and yelling an obscene comment toward Kansas players during the Sooners win on Saturday. "This decision was difficult for a lot of reasons," Riley said. "They're not adults yet. They're still learning, they're still in that phase where you're going to make mistakes and the important thing is that you learn from them and grow from them. I think what we're setting forward here is going to provide Baker an opportunity to do that. I know it's certainly something that's going to get his attention."
Ex-receiver Glenn dies
Former Dallas Cowboys receiver Terry Glenn died Monday following a one-vehicle rollover traffic accident near Dallas that left his fiancée slightly hurt, officials said. He was 43. Glenn died shortly before 1 a.m. at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, according to the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office. Irving police are investigating the cause of the wreck at 12:18 a.m. on eastbound Highway 114, said Chelsey Jones, a police department spokeswoman. Glenn, a former star at Ohio State who lived in the Dallas area, was driving when the vehicle left the highway, struck a concrete barrier and rolled, authorities said. Glenn was ejected. Jones said his fiancée was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Her name and further details weren't released. Jones had no immediate information on whether the couple wore seatbelts. Glenn played 12 seasons in the NFL, from 1996 to 2007, including 6 with the New England Patriots, 5 with the Cowboys and another season with Green Bay. He finished his career with 8,823 yards and 44 touchdowns.
Award finalists named
Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield, Penn State running back Saquon Barkley and Stanford running back Bryce Love are the finalists for the Maxwell Award given to college football's top player. The finalists for several college football awards were announced Monday, including the Chuck Bednarik defensive player of the year. The finalists for that award were Alabama defensive back Minkah Fitzpatrick, Georgia linebacker Roquan Smith and North Carolina State defensive end Bradley Chubb. Winners will be announced Dec. 7. Mayfield was also a finalist for the Davey O'Brien award that goes to the top quarterback, along with Mason Rudolph of Oklahoma State and J.T. Barrett of Ohio State. Barkley and Love, along with Wisconsin freshman Jonathan Taylor, were finalists for the Doak Walker Award that goes to the nation's top running back.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Hall of Fame class inducted
Tim Duncan and John Stockton, who became stars in college and icons in the NBA, headline the 2017 class inducted into the Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Monday night. Duncan led Wake Forest to four NCAA Tournament appearances before going first overall to the San Antonio Spurs in the 1997 draft. He went on to win five NBA titles and two MVP awards. Stockton was a four-year star at Gonzaga before spending 19 seasons with the Utah Jazz. The duo was joined by Duke standout Jay Williams, Indiana's Scott May, Purdue's Rick Mount, Cleo Hill of Winston-Salem State, Creighton's Paul Silas and longtime Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan. The induction occurred shortly before the start of a doubleheader at the adjoining Sprint Center, where UCLA faced Creighton and Baylor played Wisconsin in the CBE Classic.
BASEBALL
Halladay crash report released
Retired star pitcher Roy Halladay sped his small sports plane low over the Gulf of Mexico minutes before his fatal crash two weeks ago, climbing sharply in the final seconds before diving into the water, federal investigators said in a preliminary report released Monday. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Noreen Price placed no blame for the Nov. 7 accident near Tampa, simply laying out the facts as gleaned from the plane's data recorder and eyewitnesses. A final report with conclusions could take one to two years. Price says Halladay, 40, had taken off from a lake near his Tampa-area home about 17 minutes before the crash, taking his ICON A5 to 1,900 feet (580 meters) before dropping to 600 feet (180 meters) as he neared the coastline. He then dropped to 36 feet (11 meters) when he reached the water. While flying at about 105 mph (170 kph), Halladay skimmed the water at 11 feet (3.3 meters), flying in a circle before climbing to 100 feet (30 meters), the plane's data showed. A witness told investigators the plane climbed to between 300 and 500 feet (95 to 150 meters) when it turned and went into a 45-degree dive. It slammed into the water and flipped. Halladay's body was found with the plane, which was severely damaged. The plane itself was equipped with a parachute, but it was not deployed. Halladay, an eight-time All-Star, pitched a perfect game and a playoff no-hitter in 2010. He played for the Blue Jays from 1998 to 2009 and for the Phillies from 2009-13, going 203-105 with a 3.38 ERA.
SOCCER
NWSL team in KC folds
One of the most successful teams in the National Women's Soccer League no longer exists. The league announced Monday it had reacquired the membership interest to two-time champion FC Kansas City, effectively folding one of its inaugural clubs after five seasons. The club had been in financial trouble and its future in limbo for the last several months. The decision came days after the NWSL announced it was beginning a team in Salt Lake City. The corresponding moves are not simply relocating a franchise, though, so the titles won by FCKC in 2014 and 2015 will not transfer to Salt Lake City. But because the league manages the contracts of all the players, the rights of any FCKC players will be assigned to the new team. That club is owned by Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer, and it will begin playing its games at Rio Tinto Stadium beginning with the 2018 season.
Wimbledon champion Novotna dies from cancer
Jana Novotna, the Czech tennis star who famously cried on the Duchess of Kent's shoulder after losing a Wimbledon singles final in 1993 and then triumphed at the same tournament five years later, died Sunday in the Czech Republic. She was 49.
The Women's Tennis Association confirmed her death in a statement, which did not specify where in her native country she died. She had cancer.
Novotna won 17 Grand Slam titles, 16 of them in doubles and mixed doubles, as well as three Olympic medals. But it was her singles career that came to define her.
She had sought for years to dominate the lawn at Wimbledon. In 1993, she appeared to be on the verge of just such a victory. Up by 4-1 in the final set against Steffi Graf, Novotna lost the match, 7-6 (8-6), 1-6, 6-4.
As the trophies were being presented, the Czech tennis player cried on the Duchess of Kent's shoulder.
"Jana, I believe that you will do it, don't worry," the duchess told her, by Novotna's account.
Five years later, she did.
Novotna, then 29, defeated Nathalie Tauziat of France, 6-4, 7-6 (7-2), to lift the Wimbledon singles trophy for the first and only time.
"Jana was an inspiration both on and off the court to anyone who had the opportunity to know her," said Steve Simon, the Women's Tennis Association's chief executive. "Her star will always shine brightly in the history of the WTA."
Novotna turned professional in 1987 and initially drew attention as a doubles player. She began to make a name for herself as a singles player in 1990 -- eight years before she won the women's singles title at Wimbledon.
Known for her serve-and-volley game, she was ranked 13th among women by 1990. By 1993, she was facing off with Graf in the Wimbledon finals. She returned to the tournament finale in 1997 but lost to Martina Hingis of Switzerland.
The following year, Novotna beat Venus Williams in the quarterfinal and exacted some measure of revenge by defeating Hingis in the semifinals. By beating Tauziat, she became the oldest first-time female Grand Slam champion in the Open era. That record stood until 2010, when Francesca Schiavone of Italy won the French Open less than three weeks before her 30th birthday.
Novotna reached the final of the Australian Open once and appeared in the semifinals of the French Open and the U.S. Open, but Wimbledon was her only Grand Slam singles victory. She retired with 100 tournament titles -- 76 in doubles and 24 in singles.
She retired from professional tennis in 1999 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2005.
Sports on 11/21/2017