Lsu Suspends Player

Tue., March 17, 1998

Compiled From Wire Services

Clarence LeBlanc, a starting defensive back in eight games for LSU last season, has been suspended indefinitely by head football coach Gerry DiNardo.

Oklahoma State football coach Bob Simmons has undergone a kidney transplant with his wife donating the kidney.

“The surgery went very smoothly and there have been no complications,” Simmons said in a statement released through the school.

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