Doctors Reportedly Checking Frazier’s Leg For Clots

Former Nebraska quarterback Tommie Frazier, who led the Cornhuskers to a national championship, is in the hospital. A spokesperson at Bryan Memorial Hospital in Lincoln, Neb., confirmed Wednesday Frazier had been admitted but would not disclose details. Officials at Bryan on Monday had denied that Frazier was hospitalized there.

The Omaha World-Herald quoted Frazier’s mother, Priscilla Frazier, as saying her son was undergoing tests to determine if another blood clot had formed in his right leg.

Frazier was admitted to the hospital on Monday for a sinus infection that worsened during a weekend autograph session.

Frazier, the runner-up to Ohio State’s Eddie George in last year’s Heisman Trophy voting, had blood-clot problems during his junior season. Anticoagulant medication dissolved a clot behind his right knee, but the clot later reformed.

Dorsey High (Los Angeles) defensive end/outside linebacker Na’il Diggs, one of 18 players on the West Coast to be selected to the Long Beach Press-Telegram’s Best in the West team of top prep prospects this year, said he would sign with Ohio State instead of USC.

Diggs, 6-foot-4-1/2 and 225 pounds, who would have been arguably USC’s top recruit on the defensive line, had originally signed a national letter of intent with the Trojans until the firing of his brother-in-law, men’s basketball coach Charlie Parker on Feb. 7.

Diggs’ sister, Roslyn Simpson, had dropped off the binding letter of intent to the USC football offices but retrieved it angrily minutes later when she learned that her husband, Parker, had been fired.