Sooners didn’t monitor some employed athletes
The NCAA alleges Oklahoma failed to adequately monitor the employment of several athletes, including some football players who worked during the academic year.
The NCAA’s findings came in an investigation after Oklahoma self-reported violations and dismissed starting quarterback Rhett Bomar and offensive lineman J.D. Quinn in August for taking excess pay from a Norman car dealership where they worked.
Oklahoma disclosed Monday it had received its notice of allegations from the NCAA and is scheduled to appear before the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions on April 14 in Indianapolis.
Women’s basketball
Gators fire Peck
Florida coach Carolyn Peck was fired one day after the Gators lost their 13th straight game.
Athletic director Jeremy Foley said Peck will finish the rest of the season, then step aside as he begins searching for a replacement. Peck led Purdue to the 1999 national title.
The Gators went 69-74 in Peck’s five seasons, including a 22-45 mark in conference play.
Soccer
England will bid
The British government agreed to back an England bid to stage the 2018 World Cup even though the Football Association hasn’t announced it will be a candidate.
FIFA is expected to rule that the 2018 World Cup will be staged in Europe. England would be a leading candidate to stage soccer’s biggest event for the first time since 1966.
•Georg Buschner, who coached East Germany to a victory over eventual champion West Germany at the 1974 World Cup, died in Jena, Germany. He was 81.
•New England Revolution forward Taylor Twellman, a two-time Major League Soccer scoring champion and former league MVP, has signed a four-year deal with the team.
Miscellany
Kayaker still missing
A search of seas off New Zealand was called off as hope faded of rescuing Australian solo kayaker Andrew McAuley, who went missing during an attempt to paddle between the two South Pacific nations.
•Second-ranked Rafael Nadal withdrew from the Open 13 tennis tournament in Marseille, France, because of a thigh injury that prevented him from playing in the Davis Cup last weekend.
•Buddy McAtee, president and chief operating officer of Indianapolis Motor Speedway Productions, died in Indianapolis after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 53.
•Police dragged a protester off the stage and officers tackled a woman with a bandanna over her face during a ceremony marking the three-year countdown to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.