Question Irks Osborne

Nebraska coach Tom Osborne cut short a news conference because he resented a question about star running back Lawrence Phillips.

Phillips was suspended seven weeks ago for attacking his former girlfriend and has since been reinstated.

The question put to Osborne came from a CBS television reporter: “If one of your players had roughed up a member of your family and had dragged her down a flight of steps, would you have reinstated that player on the team?”

Osborne declined to answer on camera. He later told the reporter in the hall the answer would have been yes.