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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2005
Zack Oakes rides "Wild One" at the Pendleton Round-Up, in Pendleton Ore., Sept 17. Oakes, started chewing when he was 9. Health officials have singled out chew as one of the top health threats in rural counties. Nine percent of men in Oregon's rural counties reported chewing tobacco in a recent survey conducted by the Oregon Department of Human Services, more than double the number in urban centers such as Portland.
BIG I2 FOOTBALL Charges may be filed against K-State player
MANHATTAN — Kansas State University police yesterday turned the report of running back Thomas Clayton's arrest over to prosecutors, who will decide what — if any charges to file.
Riley County Attorney Barry Wilkerson said he received the
report shortly after noon but would not be able to review it until last night because of a heavy caseload. Clayton's first appearance in District Court was set for 1 p.m. Oct. 3.
The junior, whose 164.5- yard rushing average leads the nation, was arrested Friday on a complaint of aggravated battery against a university parking employee. A parking official said Clayton was driving away to avoid having a wheel boot placed on his car
to immobilize it because of a violation.
A charge of aggravated battery would require physical contact, Wilkerson said — but it was still unclear yesterday whether Clayton's car hit employee James A. Seymour. Police would not release witness statements, and Seymour, 44, of Manhattan, declined comment.
Jeff Barnes, the university's assistant director of parking services, told The Topeka Capital-Journal that Clayton's vehicle had hit Seymour. Barnes told The Associated Press yesterday that he stood by those comments, but refused to repeat them.
The public portion of the police report indicated that Sevmour was not injured.
Clayton had been expected to attend the Wildcats' weekly news conference yesterday, but coach Bill Snyder made a late decision to hold him out.
BY ROXANA HEGEMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
— The Associated Press
In his guilty plea, Skillman admitted that on numerous occasions he completed academic work on behalf of student athletes so that they could obtain associate degrees they were not entitled to receive, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
Coach pleads guilty to fraud
The fraud charge stemmed from the mailing of a falsified academic transcript for basketball player Randy Pulley from the western Kansas junior college to the University of Missouri in Columbia
WICHITA — A former assistant basketball coach at Barton County Community College has pleaded guilty to fraud and embezzlement charges, the latest development in an investigation that has snarled three coaches in federal indictments and led to the firing of the school's president.
Matt Skillman pleaded guilty Monday to one count of embezzlement for falsifying timecards so players could receive money from the federal work-study program without doing any work. Skillman also pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud.
Sentencing was set for Dec. 5 before Judge Wesley E. Brown.
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"Most of the time people plead guilty because they have done something wrong and they are ready to accept responsibility for what they have done wrong. That is the situation with Matt," defense attorney Steve Gradert said yesterday.
Through a spokeswoman, U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren declined to comment on the guilty plea.
Skillman, 30, worked for eight months at Barton Community College during 2002 and 2003 as an assistant coach under former basketball coaches Ryan Wolf and David "Soupy" Campbell.
Wolf has pleaded not guilty to 37 counts of fraud, theft and embezzlement, and one forfeiture count.
His trial is set for Oct. 25 in U.S. District Court in Wichita.
Campbell has pleaded not guilty to one count each of embezzlement and theft. A trial date is not set.
Former Barton County Community College President Veldon Law was fired in July because of the controversy.
Gradert said Skillman was not so much motivated by pressure to win as by a "desire to produce players to the Division I schools and please coaches at higher levels, in hopes that someday you can advance to that level yourself through those contacts."
"This is a sad case, particularly for Matt, because he was a young assistant coach who basically was doing what he was told," Gradert said.
Skillman, who is no longer coaching, faces a maximum of five years in federal prison, without parole, for the embezlement charge and a maximum of 20 years for the mail fraud, according to the U.S. attorney's office. His attorney hopes Skillman will be sentenced to probation.
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"What I believe is that this stuff goes on throughout college sports _ particularly at the junior college level _ and may have been going on for years and years, long before Ryan Wolf or Matt Skillman or any of these guys came along," Gradert said.
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