North Carolina State football coach Chuck Amato said his staff didn’t cheat in last weekend’s loss to Clemson by having a television monitor in the coaching box.
“We’re not going to break the rules,” Amato said Monday when asked about the charge brought by Clemson coach Tommy Bowden.
Bowden, once an assistant with Amato at Florida State, said Wolfpack coaches may have been charting the plays of Clemson quarterback Woodrow Danzler via the monitor in the coaches’ booth.
NCAA rules prohibit coaches from watching replays during a game.
Amato said monitors were placed in each box at Carter-Finley Stadium before the season. Indiana, N.C. State’s first opponent, asked that theirs be removed and it wasn’t replaced.
Unsafe driver
Paul Tracy was fined $50,000 and stripped of three championship points for unsafe driving and other violations during Sunday’s Honda Grand Prix, CART chief steward Chris Kneifel said.
Tracy was knocked out of the race after a pit-road collision with the car of Helio Castroneves. Castroneves wasn’t penalized and Tracy criticized Kneifel, saying “we would be better off with a circus clown running the series.”
Say what?
`He’s just trying to be (Dale) Earnhardt. Earnhardt knows how to do it. He don’t.’
– Bobby Hamilton on Kevin Harvick, who spun him out in Monday’s Old Dominion 500.
