Jul 9, 2018 4 min read

PT’s Bruce wins championship

Peters Township’s Hunter Bruce won the 98th West Penn Junior Golf Championship with a two-day score of 1-over 143 at Fox Chapel Golf Club.

Bruce, a soon-to-be freshman at Penn State, was named the 2018 Observer-Reporter boys golf MVP after finishing second in PIAA Class AAA Championships at the Heritage Hills Golf Resort and Conference Center in York.

The championship marked back-to-back titles for Bruce at the event.

Former Lions player arrested in Pittsburgh

Police say a former Detroit Lions player has been arrested in Pittsburgh for punching an officer after refusing to pay a limo driver.

NFL free agent Brandon Pettigrew is charged with two counts of aggravated assault, theft of services and public drunkenness.

Police say the 33-year-old tight end refused to pay $97 for a limo ride to a downtown hotel early Monday.

According to a complaint, when officers arrived Pettigrew became aggressive and punched one officer in the chest three times. Police allege he was visibly intoxicated.

The complaint says officers drew their stun guns but Pettigrew, who lives in Flint, Texas, complied and was handcuffed.

A message seeking comment from Pettigrew wasn’t immediately returned Monday.

Sean Howard, who has represented Pettigrew, says he has no comment.

Cowboys

player indicted

Dallas Cowboys cornerback Marquez White has been indicted on one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in what he described as a road-rage incident in suburban Dallas.

The 23-year-old White said in a statement to his hometown newspaper, the Dothan Eagle in Alabama, that a motorist became angry with White as he drove home in October. White says he pulled a handgun when the motorist appeared to be reaching for his own. He says the other driver followed him home and yelled racial slurs at him.

White, who is black, was indicted by a Collin County grand jury in early June and arrested June 15. He later posted bond and was released.

White played at Florida State before being drafted by the Cowboys. He spent his rookie season on the practice squad.

Basketball players, referees in fight

A video shows players and referees trading punches at an Amateur Athletic Union basketball game in an Atlanta suburb.

News outlets report the video has been shared on social media thousands of times. It shows the Sunday morning brawl in the AAU game between Chicago-based R.A.W. Athletics and the Houston Raptors at the LakePoint sports facility in Emerson, Ga.

R.A.W. Athletics coach Howard Martin tells WSB-TV he thinks one of his players had complained to a referee about a call before he was ejected from the game. Martin says the player was walking toward the bench when the referee pushed him.

Raptors coach Bobby Benjamin says he saw a player bump into the referee, but he’s not exactly sure what started the fight.

The referee management didn’t return calls and emails from WSB-TV.

Alabama player dismissed from team

University of Alabama has dismissed linebacker VanDarius Cowan from the football team for violating unspecified team rules.

Head coach Nick Saban announced the decision Monday in a statement. saying “each of us has a responsibility to represent the University of Alabama in a first-class way, and failure to meet those standards can’t be tolerated.”

Saban says Cowan violated team rules, but did not specify what rules.

Cowan played in seven games last season for the Crimson Tide as a freshman. He made two tackles, both coming against Mercer.

Cowan was a highly regarded and heavily recruited prospect, rated a five-star out of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, by Scout.com.