North Alabama, which just won its third straight Division II championship, will lose the equivalent of 23 football scholarships over four years as part of a self-imposed penalty for NCAA rules violations, the school announced.

An in-house investigation found that North Alabama awarded financial aid to a disproportionate number of athletes from 1989-92 without counting the grants toward scholarship limits.

Afternoon Deelites, one of the nation’s top 3-year-olds before being injured in the past Kentucky Derby, returned with an impressive victory in the $160,000 Malibu Stakes on opening day of Santa Anita’s 87-day meeting.