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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The video coordinator for Georgia’s football team has been released from the hospital after becoming critically ill from the coronavirus. Head coach Kirby Smart was among hundreds on hand at Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center to cheer the dismissal of 32-year-old Jeremy Klawsky. He was hospitalized for nearly six weeks after falling ill from the virus that has claimed more than 140,000 victims around the world. Hospital employees applauded Klawsky as he exited the facility in a wheelchair. Smart was among the school officials who stayed outside, joined by athletic director Greg McGarity and sports medicine director Ron Courson.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia men's basketball coach Tony Bennett says Trey Murphy III has joined the Cavaliers as a transfer from Rice. The Durham, North Carolina native will be eligible to practice next season, but will have to wait a year before he can play. He will have two years of eligibility remaining. At Rice, the 6-foot-8 Murphy averaged 13.7 points as a sophomore and made 75 3-pointers.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Wake Forest men's basketball is adding transfer help. The Demon Deacons announced Thursday that Ian DuBose would play next year as a graduate transfer from Houston Baptist. DuBose averaged 19 points to lead the Southland Conference last season. In addition, Virginia Tech sophomore Isaiah Wilkins announced in a social-media post that he would transfer to play for the Demon Deacons in his hometown of Winston-Salem. It’s unclear if he must sit a year due to NCAA rules or could receive a waiver to play immediately.
UNDATED (AP) — Stanford football coach David Shaw, the head of the NCAA's rules committee, says having defensive players fake injuries to slow down offenses is cheating, plain and simple. On the latest AP Top 25 College Football Podcast, Shaw joins the AP's Ralph Russo to discuss myriad topics, from preparing a team during a pandemic to transfer rules. Shaw explains the rules committee's push to clean up what he views as an integrity issue in college football. Some coaches are teaching players to feign injuries as a way to allow a defense to regroup. Shaw says in-game penalties would be difficult to implement, but maybe conference-level discipline could be used if the practice doesn't stop.
UNDATED (AP) — Top recruit Jalen Green says he is skipping college and has signed with the G League for next season, becoming the first player to take advantage of that route as a potential path to the NBA. Green, a guard from Napa, California who was considered by some as the No. 1 recruit in this year’s high school class, will be eligible for the 2021 NBA draft. Green’s signing is different from the program that was expected to allow top players the chance to use the G League as a bridge between high school and the NBA. No player ever signed under that initiative.
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