Rivers Confirms West-Wafer Fight

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Before the Knicks-Celtics game Friday, Celtics guard Von Wafer denied knowledge of any fight with him and Delonte West at the morning shoot-around.

Doc Rivers, when asked, said something different...

“There was a fight. That's all you need to know,” he said. “I'm not thrilled with it, but it happened. We'll handle it."

HOOPSWORLD.com initially reported West punched Wafer back in the Celts locker room following another over-the-top two-on-two game after practice.

Apparently, it's not the first time... and with both of them having non-guaranteed contracts, they could both get blown out very quickly...

Here's Rivers addressing what Wafer denied...

Roethlisberger Returns To Practice

Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger returned to "team activities" ((aka "practice")) this morning after being cleared by the NFL last Thursday.

Roethlisberger participated in the first of three Steelers workouts scheduled for this week this morning.

Roethlisberger, Charlie Batch and Dennis Dixon were active today. Byron Leftwich is not present because he was excused due to a prior commitment.

Paul Martino was on the South Side to see him throw said football...
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BREAKING NEWS: Michigan Football Out Of Compliance

The NCAA says Tuesday afternoon that University of Michigan head coach Rich Rodriguez's program was out of compliance with practice time rules.

Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman was accompanied by incoming athletic director David Brandon and head football coach Rich Rodriguez, at a 1PM press conference.
Brandon said there were no surprises in the NCAA findings. He also says Rodriguez remains the coach.

((Rich Rodriguez today//Courtesy: Andre J. Jackson/Detroit Free-Press))

Michigan has 90 days to respond and will appear at an NCAA hearing on infractions in August. The school is also checking in to how its investigation matches up with the NCAA findings and will consider self-imposed sanctions.

The NCAA began investigating the program following a Detroit Free Press report back in August where current and former players said they were forced to exceed NCAA limits on training and practice hours.

Read the Freep report here...

The report, now released, wasn't pretty. The outlined 5 different major violations in the football program. In fact they correlated the Free Press report from August.

Today's story from the Freep is RIGHT HERE

The laundry list includes:

(1) Exceeding the allowed number of coaches by 5.

(2) Permitting staff to monitor and conduct voluntary summer

workouts outside the season and requiring players to participate in summer conditioning for disciplinary purposes etc.

(3) Graduate Assistant Coach Alex Herron provided "False and

misleading information to the school and enforcement staff: he

lied to them.

(4) Coach Rich Rodriguez didn't monitor any of this.

(5) The Athletic Department also didn't monitor any of this

The school has 90 days to respond to the NCAA and will appear in front of the committee in August to find out their punishment. The scary part of all this is the emphasis by Brandon that Rodriguez will still be the coach at Michigan next year. His regime to this point has been somewhat of a failure with barely a winning record.

Here's RichRod from the presser, thanks to our friends at WXYZ-TV in Detroit