Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Two Penn State university officials who are accused of misleading a grand jury in its investigation into child sexual abuse allegations against a former assistant coach have stepped down, the university said early Monday morning.

Penn State Athletic Director Timothy Curley, 57, and Gary Schultz, 62, the university’s senior vice president for finance and business, face charges of one count of perjury each.

They stepped down late Sunday after an emergency meeting of the university’s board of trustees.

The man at the center of the case is former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, 67, who served 23 years as defensive coordinator for the Nittany Lions football team.

Penn State students are in ‘disbelief’ that Sandusky allegedly engaged in fondling, oral sex and anal sex with young boys over a period of more than 10 years, according to an investigative grand jury’s summary of testimony.

SHANGHAI — Tiger Woods’ former caddie caused another sensation, this time by using a racial slur to disparage his old boss during a caddies award roast in Shanghai.

Steve Williams received a mock award Friday night for “Celebration of the Year” for his TV interview after Adam Scott won the Bridgestone Invitational.

That was the day Williams said it was “the best win of his life,” despite being on the bag with Woods for 13 majors.

At an awards party filled with banter, Williams said of his interview, “It was my aim to shove it right up that black a——.”

That line drew the biggest reaction at a party attended by several players, caddies, officials and some media. There was a mixture of laughter and shock, with some players turning to each other with eyes widened and jaws agape.

The provision of the party is that all comments are off the record, yet several caddies couldn’t stop talking about it long after it was over.

Approached early the next morning at breakfast, Williams was stunned to learn that British tabloids had gone with the story.

“Why would they do that?” he said. “The whole thing was meant to be fun.” Hours later, Williams posted a comment on his website. “I apologize for comments I made last night at the Annual Caddy Awards dinner in Shanghai,” it said. “Players and caddies look forward to this evening all year, and the spirit is always joking and fun. I now realize how my comments could be construed as racist.

However, I assure you that was not my intent. I sincerely apologize to Tiger and anyone else I’ve offended.”

Woods was in Australia, though it didn’t take long for the comments to get back to him.

PHILADELPHIA — Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier has liver cancer and is under hospice care.

The 67-year-old boxer was diagnosed four or five weeks ago, Frazier’s personal and business manager said Saturday. Frazier had been in out and out of the hospital since early October and receiving hospice treatment the last week.

NEW YORK — NBA players have until Wednesday to accept Commissioner David Stern’s latest offer, though the response already seems obvious. “Right now, we’ve been given the ultimatum, and our answer is that’s not acceptable to us,” union president Derek Fisher said. But the next proposal promises to be worse, surely moving players and owners even further apart and threatening to destroy the season.

Early Sunday morning, the league said it offered players up to 51 percent of basketball-related income – a figure the union insists is fiction. Regardless, it will drop to 47 percent Wednesday if players don’t accept the current offer by the league-imposed deadline. No agreement by the deadline likely will trigger more calls to disband the union and take on the league in court, a battle that would take months.

SAN FRANCISCO – Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for former NFL star Terrell Owens after he failed to show up last month for a court date regarding child support payments.

Owens’ spokeswoman said Saturday the free-agent wide receiver tried to reschedule his Oct. 24 hearing in Contra Costa County Court because he had set up a televised workout in the hopes of securing a new contract. No teams attended the workout.

Owens said he was looking for a new attorney and was representing himself while trying to change the court date. She said his new attorneys will deal with the warrant issued this week.

Bianchini said Owens is seeking to modify his child support payments because they were based on the approximately $12 million a year he was making in 2007 when he played for the Dallas Cowboys.

NEW YORK — At Sunday’s New York City Marathon, Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai detonated the men’s course record by over two-and-a-half minutes in 2 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds — with the second and third place finishers also under the course record — and Ethiopian Firehiwot Dado won the women’s race in a swift 2:23:15, the sixth-fastest time ever in the five boroughs.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be hitting the road and will be facing the New Orleans Saints in the Super Dome this Sunday.

The Bucs are coming off of a bye week, and will enter Sunday’s contest healthier than they’ve been in weeks. Returning to the lineup will be LeGarrett Blount, Mason Foster, Tanard Jackson and Gerald McCoy.

The Bucs will have their hands full with the Saints who are coming off an unexpected loss last week at the hands of the St. Louis Rams. Speculation is Buccaneer quarterback, Josh Freeman, will have a more complete game with the return of Blount to the lineup, and the defense is also expected to step up from past performances.

The Bucs (4-3) still hold a special place in the NFC South since the Saints and Carolina Panthers both lost Sunday, and the Atlanta Falcons took a week off.

The Bucs rank 15th in the NFL in total offense and in their last game against the Saints, Josh Freeman went 23 of 41 for 303 yards and 2 touchdowns.

Buccaneers Sign Safety David Sims

DAVID SIMS

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed safety David Sims, bolstering the team’s depth in the secondary.

Sims was in training camp with the New York Giants, but was released during the final cuts. He entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent out of Iowa State.

The Bucs announced the move before practice Tuesday.

The reports of any truce between Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal has been greatly exaggerated.

Now that he is out of the game, Shaq has a new tell all book coming out: Shaq Uncut: My Story.

Some excerpts, including the parts where Shaq says Kobe’s Colorado sexual assault charges blew up the three-peat Lakers. And where Shaq threatened to kill Kobe.

Los Angeles County Coroner’s officials announced Wednesday that former all-pro football player turned actor and commercial pitchman Bubba Smith died of acute drug intoxication and other conditions.

The autopsy found that Smith, 66, whose body was discovered Aug. 3 by a caretaker at his Baldwin Hills home, was found to have phentermine, a weight-loss drug, in his system. Coroner’s officials said he also had heart disease and high-blood pressure.

The 66-year-old actor’s heart was abnormally large -nearly twice the weight of a normal heart – and some vessels were blocked as much as 75%, according to the report.

Charles Aaron Smith was born Feb. 28, 1945, in Orange, Texas, and grew up in Beaumont, where his mother was a teacher and his father his high school football coach.