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Connecticut police have charged a man with the murder of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard. John William Lomax, 21, has been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit assault.

His attorney insists Lomax was attempting to break up the fight. His bond was set at $2 million.

Police charged Hakim Muhammad, 20, with conspiracy to commit assault, and 21-year-old Jamal Todd with pulling the fire alarm, which reportedly began the fight.

None of the three men are listed as students or employees at the university, according to the school's Web site.

Howard, 20, was stabbed just after 12:30AM, Oct. 18, following a school-sanctioned dance on the Connecticut campus. He was airlifted to a Hartford hospital where he died later that morning.

A University of Iowa student was arrested during last Saturday's Iowa-Arkansas State game for repeatedly harassing a Hawkeye football player from her seat in the first row behind the Iowa bench.

Brittney Mears, 22, was charged with third degree harassment for repeatedly yelling a player's name. The player was not identified in the criminal complaint, but a court order issued on Wednesday forbids Mears to have any contact with starting defensive end Adrian Clayborn.

Players get things yelled at them all the time during games. Virtually all of it gets ignored, and the ones who do the yelling rarely if ever get arrested. So what happened here?

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- In a game of inches, none may mean more to Mike Locksley than the ones he didn't take Sept. 20. The first-year New Mexico coach was all but out the door following a heated altercation with wide receivers coach J.B. Gerald, when, he said, he "sort of lost it."

Those inches may wind up costing him everything.

"If I had that moment back ... ," Locksley said to FanHouse in his office Tuesday night. "I was literally walking out the door because I knew I was getting heated and it kept going back and forth. I'm walking out the door and I look over and another word was said and it was set off."

In that moment, he grabbed Gerald, an assistant who had followed him halfway across the country from Illinois. An altercation ensued. When the dust cleared all that was certain was that Gerald had a split lip. And two coaching careers were beginning to unravel, the coda to an argument from earlier in the day, an argument with a decade of history.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The University of New Mexico athletic department has turned the incident involving head coach Mike Locksley and his assistant coach J.B. Gerald over to the university's human resources department, athletic director Paul Krebs said Tuesday.

Gerald filed a police report Sept. 20, claiming that Locksley punched him in the face and split his lip following an argument during a staff meeting. News of the altercation began seeping out slowly the following day, but it became an avalanche this week as the school opened up about the incident.

Locksley has not shied away and he has admitted his mistake to his team, Gerald, Krebs and the media. Locksley and Krebs dispute the fact Gerald was punched in the face, citing no witness accounts. Still, they realize it all looks bad on the first-time head coach, his program and the university.

College football's opening week should be about celebration but its taken a rough turn after an Alabama football player was shot Monday night. Senior defensive end Brandon Deaderick was shot in the arm in an apparent robbery outside a Tuscaloosa apartment complex.

The Tuscaloosa News says his injuries aren't life-threatening which is great news but authorities are actively searching for his attacker and appear to have made an arrest. It was anticipated Deaderick would be a starter this season on a loaded Alabama defense but obviously, his physical recovery could take him away from Saturdays for a while.

Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops was mentioned as one of the Sooners coaches guilty of committing several minor NCAA violations in connection with apparent inadvertent phone calls and text messages, according to a report obtained by the Associated Press on Friday.

Documents from Oklahoma's self-report show that Stoops and assistant football coach Jackie Shipp, along with assistant women's basketball coach Stacy Hansmeyer, made impermissible phone calls to a recruit. Head women's basketball coach Sherri Coale also mistakenly sent a text message to a perspective student-athlete.

There was a ton of promise surrounding him, but former Michigan quarterback Justin Feagin never realized any of it. Brought in to compete for the starting quarterback job in the spread offense run by head coach Rich Rodriguez, Feagin never really got close.

In July, he was kicked off the football team, with Rodriguez citing the ever-popular "violation of team rules." Reports he was going to transfer to Appalachian State have been rebuffed. As it turns out, the Detroit Free Press says it was more than just team rules Feagin violated. He also broke the basic laws of society.

James McDonald, a backup wide receiver on the Penn State football team, has been kicked off the team for reasons which are technically undisclosed, at least by the PSU athletic department.

However, McDonald was cited for DUI on July 9th after being pulled over for an expired registration. Couple that with a suspension for "undisclosed violations" back in 2007, and it isn't hard to see why McDonald is now an ex-Lion.

Mississippi State senior running back Anthony Dixon was arrested on suspicion of DUI Saturday night. Reports indicate he drove off the side of the road, and was found lacking in insurance but countered with twin champagne bottles in his backseat.

Now I'm all for traveling companions but usually more of the human variety. Its unclear if he was aiming for the Maurice Clarett special, perhaps trading out one of his champagne bottles for an open Grey Goose vodka while adding several firearms and a katana. Fortunately he didn't make that choice, giving him some hope of returning to the team.

Arron Agler, a former quarterback at Michigan State and Kent State, was shot and killed last Friday. His body was dumped in the parking lot of an Akron, Ohio hospital.

Police believe Agler, 29, was shot during a robbery of a drive through beverage store in Barberton, Ohio. Agler is believed to be one of the robbers. His alleged accomplice, 54-year-old Dennis Williams, who was not injured, was arrested Sunday morning near an Akron homeless shelter.

Agler appeared in two games for Michigan State during the 1999 season. He later transferred to Kent State but never played there.