Some PGA pros unhappy with Uresti's win

Omar Uresti won the PGA Professional Championship Wednesday to earn a spot in the PGA Championship and six PGA Tour events. But, according to Golf Digest, Uresti's victory hasn't sat well with some PGA teaching professionals, who believe former tour players like Uresti shouldn't be allowed to play in their national championship. Since Uresti was a PGA Tour player for more than 20 years, he has an A-3 life member status in the Southern Texas Section of the PGA of America. Darrell Fuston, who sits on the board of directors for the Southern Texas section and is the director of golf at The Woodlands (Texas) Country Club, told Digest that the problem is not Uresti, but the rule. “To me, Omar hasn’t

Ex-Vanderbilt Football Player Found Guilty In Gang Rape Of Unconscious Student

A former football player for Vanderbilt University was found guilty on Friday of the 2013 rape of an unconscious woman on the floor of a dorm room. Brandon Banks, now 23, is the third ex-football player from the Nashville university to be charged in the assault. After 15 hours of deliberation, a jury found Banks guilty on two charges of aggravated rape and aggravated sexual battery and not guilty on five other charges, The Associated Press reported.

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  Vanderbilt rape trial: Jury adjourns without verdict Thursday

  The Tennessean
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  Jury begins deliberating in ex-football player’s rape trial

  The Seattle Times