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Baylor offensive coordinator Kendal Briles met with NCAA officials in Indianapolis on Wednesday regarding potential recruiting violations, sources said.The NCAA says Briles had improper contact with a recruit. Baylor officials are attempting to get the level of infractions reduced, a source said. Specific details about the alleged violations werent immediately known.Briles meeting with NCAA officials came the day before his 34th birthday. A source said the NCAA investigation is not related to the schools ongoing sexual assault scandal.In 2015, Baylor officials suspended Briles one game for a violation related to evaluations of prospective recruits in the spring of 2015. Briles, the son of former Baylor coach Art Briles,?and receiver coach Tate Wallis were suspended and not allowed to coach in the 2015 season opener against Lamar.In January 2015, Sports Illustrated reported that the NCAA was looking into whether Briles committed a violation by visiting 2015 recruit J.W. Ketchum during a noncontact period in the fall of 2014.SI reported that NCAA investigators had contacted officials at Ketchums Marshall High School in Missouri City, Texas, about the alleged visit.Since being notified more than a year ago by the NCAA about potential violations involving two assistant football coaches, we have worked cooperatively with the NCAA and Thursdays hearing was just the next step in the process to bring it to closure, Baylor said in a statement to ESPN. We take all NCAA inquiries seriously and look forward to putting this behind us in the near future.Briles has been at Baylor since 2008 and is in his second season as Bears offensive coordinator. He is regarded as the Bears top recruiter and was named Big 12 recruiter of the year in 2014 by the websites Rivals, Scout and 247Sports.Baylor athletics director Mack Rhoades didnt respond to text messages seeking comment on Thursday night, and a university spokesman also declined to comment. NCAA rules prevent universities from commenting on ongoing investigations.Last week, Briles and other Baylor assistant coaches released a statement via Twitter, in which they disputed claims by a board of regents member that Art Briles was aware of an alleged gang rape involving former Bears players and didnt report it to proper authorities.Art Briles, who guided the Bears to a 65-37 record and at least a share of two Big 12 titles from 2008 to 15, was fired May 26 after an investigation by Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton found widespread problems with the way Baylor responded to allegations of sexual assault by students, including several football players. University president Kenneth Starr was demoted and then fired, and McCaw was suspended and then resigned.On Monday, acting head coach Jim Grobe announced that running back Shock Linwood was suspended for Saturdays game with Oklahoma because of attitude issues. A source told ESPN that Linwood had a dustup during last weeks TCU game and shoved a graduate assistant coach on the sideline. . 9. Price, heading to the 2014 Olympics for Canada, was named the First Star after posting wins in three starts with a 1.00 goals-against average and a .971 save percentage. . The phone hearing is scheduled for 4:30pm et/1:30pm pt. Winchester, who was not penalized for the hit, appeared to make contact with Kellys head early in the first period of Thursdays game in Boston. . Sgt. Eric ONeal says most of the arrests at Monday nights game were for public drunkenness, though one person was taken into custody on suspicion of trying to steal a seat from the stadium. . -- Jacksonville wide receiver Cecil Shorts will likely be a game-time decision whether hell play Sunday in the Jaguars home game against the San Diego Chargers. . -- The Bishops Gaiters are showing they belong among the countrys top varsity football teams. NEW YORK -- Freddie Freeman took his newborn son and wife home from a hospital, stayed up through most of the night and headed from Atlanta to New York.This is what adrenaline can do: He had four hits, including a home run, and three RBIs to help the last-place Braves to a 7-3 win against the contending Mets on Monday night.My flight was at 11:30, but that doesnt mean I got any sleep last night because my son was screaming his head off, Freeman said. He found out what his lungs can do last night.Freeman was seen on television rushing from the dugout to the clubhouse during the seventh inning of Wednesdays game against Miami at Turner Field when he received a message that his wife had gone into labor.Frederick Charles Freeman II was born Thursday.Freemans wife, the model known as Chelsea Goff before their wedding, posted a photo of herself with her newborn son and husband on Instagram, saying the baby is healthy and perfect.Freeman was given Friday off by the Braves to spend time with his wife and son, called Charlie by his parents. He played Saturday and Sunday, waiting through two rain delays as the Braves beat Washington 6-2 in the series finale. Freeman stayed behind rather than travel with the team to New York and brought his family hoome from the hospital.dddddddddddd He got at most two hours sleep and took over baby duty when the nurse left at 8 a.m.I wanted to do that because Im not going to be able to see him for six days, he said. I got some quality time in before I left.Freeman arrived in time for Monday nights game at Citi Field.Youre going to love baseball so much more now with another distraction, a boy and a family, Braves manager Brian Snitker recalled telling him. Maybe come on the road and get some rest.Freeman hit an opposite-field home run to left off Noah Syndergaard in the third inning for a 3-0 lead, added a two-run, opposite-field double in the fourth, then singled in the seventh and eighth.Chelsea tweeted a picture of Charlie being held in front of a television screen showing the game.Freeman has a 23-game hitting streak and has reached base in 39 consecutive games. With nearly two weeks left in the season, the two-time All-Star has hit a career-high 31 home runs and is batting .302 with 83 RBIs.Hopefully, I have some other cool games I can tell him about, too, Freeman said.The Associated Press contributed to this report. ' ' '
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