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Briefs for print
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At The Meadows
Medusa zipped right to the lead from post 6 and never had an anxious moment as she cruised to victory in Monday’s $17,000 Filly & Mare Not Listed Preferred Handicap Pace at The Meadows.
Medusa easily thwarted the first-over challenge of Fox Valley Charm and scored for Tony Hall in 1:52.2 over a “good” surface, 1-1/4 lengths better than the pocket-sitting Miss Mady. Fox Valley Charm raced well for show.
Randy Bendis trains Medusa, a 6-year-old daughter of Bettor’s Delight-Mythical who now boasts $629,657 in career earnings, and owns with Tom Pollack.
Dave Palone, Bendis and Hall each enjoyed a three-bagger on the 13-race card.
Wild Things sign catcher
The Washington Wild Things have signed catcher Chase Simmons.
Simmons, 23, played in the Frontier League last season with Gateway. He played two seasons at Jefferson College in Hillsboro, Mo., before transferring to Lubbock Christian University for his final two years of eligibility.
Simmons batted .234 with 11 RBI in the 46 games he played for the Grizzlies last season.
Burfict avoids suspension
Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict won’t be suspended for the contact with an official that got him ejected from a 24-20 loss at Tennessee.
A league spokesman said Monday that Burfict faces a fine only. He pushed an official’s arm out of the way on the sideline in the second quarter after quarterback Marcus Mariota ran out of bounds. Two plays earlier, Burfict drew an unnecessary roughness penalty for hitting Mariota out of bounds.
It was the second game in a row that the Bengals (3-6) had a star player ejected before halftime. Receiver A.J. Green was kicked out of a loss at Jacksonville after grabbing cornerback Jalen Ramsey around the neck, tackling him and punching him.
The outburst by Green was out of character. He apologized after the game. Green was fined $42,541 by the NFL but wasn’t suspended. Ramsey also was ejected from the game but wasn’t suspended or fined.
Coach Marvin Lewis has warned Burfict about exchanging words with opponents after a play.
An ESPN report quoted an unidentified Bengals player saying officials have provoked Burfict. Lewis said “it would shock me” if that were true.
Duke tops opening AP poll
Duke is No. 1 in The Associated Press’ first regular-season poll of 2017-18.
The Blue Devils were No. 1 in the preseason poll and received 34 of 65 first-place votes from a national media panel in the AP Top 25 released Monday after winning their first two games.
No. 2 Michigan State received 13 first-place votes, No. 3 Arizona got 16 and No. 4 Kansas had 2. Duke had 33 first-place votes in the preseason poll.
Villanova moved up one spot to No. 5, with Wichita State, Kentucky, Florida, North Carolina and Southern California rounding out the top 10.
Duke was the preseason No. 1 for the second straight season and ninth time overall, matching North Carolina for the most of all time. The Blue Devils opened the season with convincing wins over Elon and Utah Valley, giving coach Mike Krzyzewski 1,000 victories with the program. He became the first Division I coach to reach 1,000 wins overall in 2015.