Calgary Flames head coach Darryl Sutter denied allegations made by former NHL winger Daniel Carcillo that he saw Sutter kick a player on the bench and mentally abuse another player who was suffering from a concussion during his time coaching the Los Angeles Kings.

Sutter was hired as the new head coach of the Flames on Thursday.

Carcillo played 26 games with the Kings in 2013-14 when Sutter was the head coach in Los Angeles. In Nov. 2019, Carcillo claimed to have seen Sutter kick a player in the lower back on the bench and that the coach berated Kings defenseman Matt Greene out of the dressing room before a team meeting, specifically because Greene had a concussion.

"Sutter said, I quote, 'what the f--- are you doing here? I don't want your negative energy in here. You're injured. Get out,'" Carcillo told the Global News back in 2019.

His accusations were not corroborated at the time and Sutter did not comment on them.

Sutter was asked about the incidents during his introductory news conference as the new head coach of the Flames on Friday. When asked if he had done either of them, Sutter answered, "No. I think honesty and truth always prevails. We'll just leave [it at] that."

Carcillo's accusations came during a year of reckoning for hockey coaches, as players shared allegations of abuse in all levels of the game. That including accusations against then-Flames coach Bill Peters.

Akim Aliu, who is Black, accused Peters of using a racial slur against him when the two were in the American Hockey League. Peters was also accused of physically assaulting players on the bench while coaching the Carolina Hurricanes. Those accusations were confirmed by current Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour.

Peters resigned from the Flames in Nov. 2019. After the resignation, Calgary general manager Brad Treliving faced questions about the team's vetting process. He said that the Flames "do a full scrub" on every hire and that the abuse allegations never came up in the conversations he had with Peters' previous employers.

"I don't know if you're going to find out all the information, or everything in everybody's past. You have to do the best job you possibly can. Are there things we can change and add? Sure, you look at your policies, you look at your procedures, you always have to get better. We will attempt to do that," he said at the time.

Sutter was first contacted about the Calgary job roughly three days before coach Geoff Ward was fired on Thursday. Sutter was immediately announced as Treliving's fifth head coach in seven years that night.

Carcillo told ESPN on Friday that the Flames hiring another coach who had been accused of kicking a player is indicative of hockey's systemic problems.

"The truth of the matter is that hockey is its own worst enemy. I've continued to say it. This hiring shows that. There's been numerous accusations against the Sutter family -- not just Darryl -- about the way they treat people and the abuse that's prevailed in organizations that they've been head coaches of and general managers of. I wasn't saying anything new," he said.

Carcillo had previously implicated Brent Sutter, owner of the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League, in 2019 for an incident involving the junior team's rookie party. Publishing a photo from that party on Twitter with the players' identities obscured, he claimed there was "underage drinking, and physical, verbal and sexual abuse took place at the event and were reported to the Western Hockey League and to Hockey Canada," but that the incidents were ignored "because it involved the Sutter name."

Brent Sutter responded to those accusations at the time, saying they were "disturbing" and "we don't take them lightly." He listed the mental health options available for players through the team, adding, "I am not perfect, and have worked tirelessly to surround our organization with people who want to grow, change, and provide an even better experience for our players."

"Darryl is a bad human being," Carcillo continued. "I believe that from all of my interactions with him and from what I saw him do to teammates. He didn't get rehabilitated. I definitely know that Darryl didn't step away and get rehabilitated in any way, shape or form. And now he's stepping back. And that's predictive of how hockey culture works. They stand by these guys that they hold in high regard despite their behavior. That's the epitome of the problem."

When asked if he had changed the way he coaches players over time, Sutter said he has always related well to players on a human level.

"I have children that are the same age as most of our players. A have a lot of respect for them and what they're going through in their lives, not so much on the ice as off the ice. I've always had a great relationship with what's going on with players off the ice. It's something I've felt really good about: Being able to help young players get through situations," he said.

ORLANDO, Fla. – For a moment on Friday at Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Jason Day appeared to be birdwatching. With binoculars pressed to his eyes, Day was closely studying a nest in one of the trees right of the 16^th fairway.

Only on this particular occasion, Day wasn’t staring down a birdie or eagle – of any variety.

He was trying to identify his golf ball.

“I could see the [Bridgestone] Tour B XS logo on the side and I'm like, ‘That's it, that's perfect,’” Day said afterward, adding that he had never had a ball get stuck in a tree before. “A little unfortunate that it got stuck up there. It was literally in a nest, so I think the mama birdie's going to come back and find another egg there.”

Day was forced to take an unplayable and then lay up out of the rough. From there, he missed the green with a wedge and ended up making double-bogey 7 on what is traditionally the most accommodating hole at Arnie’s Place. A gut punch? Not as much as the par-4 18^th hole, where Day carded his second double in three holes after finding the back bunker from the middle of the fairway, blasting through the green with his third shot and missing an 8-footer for bogey.

“You just got to kind of go, ‘OK, new nine, like just relax, don't do anything silly,’” Day said. “You just got to keep pushing along.”

Day birdied three holes on his final nine Friday, and despite capping his round with bogey at the par-4 ninth, he is 2 under in the contention at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, a tournament he won in 2016 yet withdrew before completing 36 holes because of a back injury in each of the past two years.

“I know the last few years haven't panned out the right way,” Day said, “but my body's feeling tremendous and I feel good about where I'm at.”

ORLANDO, Fla. – Rickie Fowler might still be grinding on his swing, but he’s at least got a chance of sticking around for the weekend thanks to a late rally Friday at Bay Hill.

After yanking a drive well into the lake on the third hole and making double to drop to 5 over, Fowler responded with three straight birdies, at Nos. 4-6, and parred his final three holes of the day to shoot 2-under 70. In the clubhouse at 2 over, Fowler was right on the projected cut line when he finished, meaning he’ll have to wait and see if he can finish among the top 65 and ties.

“I'm happy with it,” said Fowler, who has missed just one cut in nine previous starts at the Arnold Palmer Invitational but also has gone more than a year without a top-10 finish. He’s changed coaches, dropping Butch Harmon and linking up with John Tillery last November. He played five straight weeks on the West Coast, the first time he’s done that since his rookie year, with two missed cuts and a best finish of T-20 two weeks ago at Riviera.

Fowler said Friday that he's starting to "see the light at the end of the tunnel," but the journey to this point has been a fight.

“If we look back on this in a couple years and I've gone on to win a handful of tournaments and I'm in a good spot to be like, you know, 'Was it worth it?' Yeah,” Fowler said. “We all go through changes to ultimately come out in a better spot than we were before, so that's why we're going through this and battling through it. … I think more so it's just a mental challenge because playing and competing against the best players in the world for a decent amount of time now and being up there is at one point in the top 10 for quite some time and being one of the top guys in the world, it's just hard because you know what you're capable of and where you should be or what you expect out of yourself.

“So, that's been more of the struggle is not beating myself up too much and kind of taking a step back, let everything happen, be patient, but, yeah, it's been frustrating at times.”

Fowler said last year’s coronavirus stoppage ended any momentum he had. When he returned, he missed three of his next five cuts beginning at Colonial. The rest of the year wasn’t great, either, as Fowler ended 2020 outside of the top 50 in the world for the first time since 2010.

However, a closing 67 at the Genesis gave Fowler his first real positive affirmation in a while, and though Thursday’s opening 76 was another step back during this swing re-tooling (Fowler missed nine greens in Round 1), he bounced back by hitting 15 greens on a day where he found only six fairways.

“It's getting closer and closer,” Fowler said, “so see if we get a tee time tomorrow. If we do, we'll go play like hell this weekend. If not, we'll go get ready for our tee time next Thursday.”

ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. – A man found Tiger Woods unconscious in a mangled SUV after the Woods crashed the vehicle in Southern California, authorities said in court documents obtained Friday.

The man, who lives near the site in Rolling Hills Estates, heard the crash and walked to the SUV, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Johann Schloegl wrote in an affidavit.

The man told deputies that Woods would not respond to his questions. The first deputy on the scene, Carlos Gonzalez, has said Woods was able to talk to him and answer basic questions. Woods later told deputies that he did not know how the collision occurred and didn’t remember driving.

Law enforcement has not previously disclosed that Woods had been unconscious following the crash.

The information came in a statement of probable cause requesting that a search warrant be approved for the Genesis SUV’s data recorder, known as a black box. Schloegl requested data from Feb. 22 and Feb. 23. The crash occurred around 7 a.m. on Feb. 23.

“I believe the data will explain how/why the collision occurred,” Schloegl wrote.

Sheriff’s representatives have declined to say what was discovered in the recorder.

Woods was driving a 2021 GV80, made by the Hyundai luxury brand, as the tournament host of the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club. The SUV went off a Los Angeles County road and crashed on a downhill stretch known for wrecks. The crash injured Woods’ right leg, requiring surgery.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva has said Woods was driving alone in good weather, there was no evidence of impairment, and the crash was “purely an accident.”

Schloegl previously told USA Today that he did not seek a search warrant for Woods’ blood samples, which could be screened for drugs and alcohol. In 2017, Woods checked himself into a clinic for help dealing with prescription drug medication after a DUI charge in Florida.

The lengthy surgery following the crash was to stabilize shattered tibia and fibula bones in his right leg. A combination of screws and pins were used for injuries in the ankle and foot.

It was the 10th surgery of his career, and came two months after a fifth back surgery. Through it all, Woods has never gone an entire year without playing, dating back to his first PGA Tour event as a 16-year-old in high school.

Very soon -- most likely in late April -- UEFA will confirm changes to the Champions League, both in terms of format and access. Those reforms -- which will kick in from 2024 -- will be heavily tilted in favour of already wealthy teams in already wealthy leagues, much like most of the changes we've seen since the creation of the competition in 1992.

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It will be presented as UEFA having no choice but picking the lesser of two evils. It'll be making concessions to big clubs, but that's a better alternative than watching them break away and form their own Super League, ignoring the Champions League altogether. We've had these threats before, but this time they felt credible, as I wrote in October. With interest rates close to zero, private equity firms flush with money and top clubs short on cash due to the pandemic, it was the perfect storm for the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Manchester United to either form their own breakaway competition and divvy up the revenue among themselves -- or, as appears to have happened, pretend they would do just that and use the leverage to carve out a better deal for themselves.

The effects of the pandemic, the need for -- to use a buzzword among football execs -- innovative formats and the reminder that club football is a business will be used to justify loading the dice even further in favour of the rich and powerful. But that argument doesn't hold water, and Bundesliga CEO Christian Seifert put it best recently, speaking at the Financial Times' Business of Football Summit.

"The brutal truth is that a few of these so-called super clubs are in fact poorly managed cash-burning machines that were not able, in a decade of incredible growth, to come close to a somehow sustainable business model," he said.

Somehow, despite a decade of continuous growth that has seen European club revenue double (with most of the increase flowing to the top) and despite Financial Fair Play keeping costs down (and ensuring that the system as a whole was profitable in the last three seasons pre-pandemic), some of the game's biggest clubs realize they are overextended and short on cash.

And their solution is to make pretty much permanent changes that will serve only to increase the gap between the haves and the have-nots. Details are still sketchy and subject to last-minute horse-trading, but after consultations with clubs and leagues, it looks like the Champions League will be adding four teams, introducing something called the "Swiss Model" that will increase the number of group games from six to 10, giving the French league another automatic spot and having a safety net allowing up to two clubs with a good European pedigree (read: UEFA coefficient ranking) to automatically qualify.

There'll be time to analyse the new format -- especially the "Swiss Model," which, I guarantee, few will understand -- when it's confirmed. But, broadly speaking, the idea is to have more European games and generate more money to help off-set the damage done by the pandemic. For what it's worth, I'm not averse to clubs playing more European games, and that includes the Europa Conference League, which kicks off next season.

There are hundreds and hundreds of European top-flight clubs that never get to play international football and, even among those who do, for all but 80 of them, the season is over by September. Why shouldn't they get to play? Nor do I necessarily have a problem with trying to squeeze more money out of the Champions League and Europa League. These are professional clubs; they're running a business. What's more, of the €3.25 billion ($4 billion) these competitions generate, some €400m ($485m) goes back to support grassroots, national associations and other development initiatives.

There is no question either that these are tough times for clubs, particularly as COVID-19 measures mean stadiums have to stay closed longer than expected and broadcasters demand rebates. Back in September, the European Club Association estimated that clubs would take a hit of around €4 billion ($4.85 billion) over two seasons. In January, ECA president Andrea Agnelli revised that estimate upwards talking of losses of between €6.5 billion ($8 billion) and €8.5 billion ($10.3 billion).

And, obviously, in absolute terms, bigger clubs with bigger stadiums (and therefore more matchday income) and bigger TV deals bear the brunt of these losses. What grates though is the de facto land grab by big clubs that not only want more for themselves, they also want added insurance against -- gasp! -- failing to qualify for the Champions League in the form of the extra places. (And, let's face it, if you're one of the half dozen super clubs outside the Premier League, you really have to screw up something fierce to fail to qualify as it stands.)

It's wrong on two levels. First and foremost, it's simply unethical. Folks from big clubs always justify the fact that they have gotten a bigger share of revenues with the fact that they take on more "entrepreneurial risk" -- i.e., spending more to get the biggest stars and sponsors, with fans paying to see those players. It's their presence that generates the money, not Skenderbeu vs. Midtjylland. That's why 15% of Champions League revenue is distributed based on the "market pool" -- the size of the TV market in a club's domestic league. If you're in the Premier League or Serie A or the Bundesliga you get a lot, because these are big TV markets in big economies. If you're from Albania or Denmark ... not so much.

It's also why another 20% of revenue gets handed out based on "coefficient ranking." Basically, if you performed well in Europe over the past decade, you get more than if you didn't. The argument here is that teams that have done well in the past have helped to build the Champions League brand and deserve to reap more of the rewards. (It's also, in practice, a way of funnelling more money to the established elite. )

Fine. But "entrepreneurial risk" is just that: risk. You have more skin in the game, so you get more of the upside when things go well. But, equally, it means you lose more when things go badly. It's free-market economics 101. The other aspect is that we're talking about making de facto permanent changes that only make it even more difficult for others to compete. In theory, of course, they're not permanent -- UEFA operates in three-year cycles -- but, in the real world, every format change that has been introduced since the creation of the competition back in 1992 has benefited bigger clubs from bigger nations.

That means that once the toothpaste is out, it's not going back into the tube. Nobody wants to see a club go bust. But -- guess what? -- at the highest level it's virtually impossible. Wage bills can be cut. Debts can be renegotiated. Players can be transferred. Regulations can be loosened to help meet obligations. Does it mean you can do all this and still remain competitive? No, odds are, if you do that you'll be worse on the pitch. It might take you some time to get back to where you were. But that's life. That's business. You overspend, you pay the price.

In the 10 years before the pandemic, club revenues around Europe nearly doubled, from €11.7b ($14.2b) to €21.1b ($25.6b). Not quite Bitcoin, but not too shabby either. And, thanks to Financial Fair Play, the system as a whole was profitable in the past three years.

So yeah, Seifert kinda has a point. If you cry poverty now -- and if you try to change the whole system to help bail you out and further create a permanent ruling class of clubs -- you should expect the world's smallest violin. UEFA would probably say it had no choice but to cave. The alternative -- clubs making good on their threat, withdrawing from the Champions League and doing their own thing -- would have gutted its competitions and its ability to redistribute money through the system.

But the fact is that it's been caving for the past two decades. It's getting old. And it's not good for the game.

The Denver Broncos are placing the franchise tag on safety Justin Simmons for the second consecutive season, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Friday.

Simmons, who was poised to become an unrestricted free agent, becomes the first player to be tagged this offseason. The Broncos now have until July 15 to work out a long-term deal.

"Justin is one of our core guys, and our goal since I got here was to sign him to a long-term deal," Broncos general manager George Paton said Thursday. "We've had good discussions with his agent. I don't know if we'll get a deal done or not, but that's our goal. He's the type of guy we'd want to extend."

NFL teams have until March 9 at 4 p.m. ET to place the franchise tag on their most valuable player.

Simmons, the Broncos' third-round pick in the 2016 draft, played on the franchise player tag in 2020, worth $11.4 million. He finished with 96 tackles and five interceptions. It was his third consecutive 90-tackle season. He has consistently been an active player in run defense along the line of scrimmage with the versatility to match up on a variety of players in coverage.

The 27-year-old Simmons has the combination of on-field performance and off-field community engagement, given he has played every defensive snap for each of the last three seasons and was named the Broncos' nominee this past season for the Walter Payton Man of the Year award.

When Paton was hired in January, Broncos president of football operations John Elway said trying to re-sign Simmons was "one of the biggest things'' Paton had on his to-do list.

Simmons has consistently been one of the most active players in the community and one of the team's leading voices in social justice initiatives.

He has won the Darrent Williams Good Guy award, given out by the Denver chapter of the Pro Football Writers of America each season to the Broncos player to recognize professionalism and depth in interactions with the media. Simmons is the only three-time winner of the award since it began in 2006.

ESPN's Jeff Legwold contributed to this report.

Former LSU athletic director Joe Alleva recommended in 2013 that Les Miles be fired as head coach of the football program after accusations of inappropriate behavior with female student workers, according to a scathing investigative report released Friday that detailed systemic failures by LSU to appropriately report incidents of athletic-related sexual misconduct and abuse.

According to the investigation by Husch Blackwell, Alleva sent an email on June 21, 2013, to LSU's legal counsel and incoming LSU president F. King Alexander. Alleva wrote, "one more time I want us to think about which scenario is worse for LSU. Explaining why we let him go or explaining why we let him stay."

"I believe he is guilty of insubordination, inappropriate behavior, putting the university, athletic dept and football program at great risk," Alleva wrote in the email, which was included in the report. "I think we have cause. I specifically told him not to text, call or be alone with any student workers and he obviously didn't listen. I know there are many possible outcomes and much risk either way, but I believe it is in the best interest in the long run to make a break."

Husch Blackwell, which LSU hired in November, interviewed nearly 50 current and former university employees, students, witnesses and other university community stakeholders for its report, which was released one day after a 2013 internal investigation made public by LSU accused Miles of inappropriate behavior toward female students.

Miles' attorney, Peter Ginsberg, declined additional comment on Friday. On Thursday, he said the release of the Taylor Porter Report "should put an end to the baseless, inaccurate media reports that Coach Les Miles engaged in an inappropriate touching of an Athletic Department student volunteer eight years ago.

"As the Report concludes, the allegation that Coach Miles attempted to kiss the woman was supported by no evidence and warranted no discipline: 'We do not believe under existing law and the terms of the contract there is cause to discipline and/or terminate' Coach Miles. Coach Miles denied then, as he denies now, that any such conduct occurred."

The authors of the Husch Blackwell report wrote that "we are not in a position to offer an opinion on whether the allegations against him are true or not. Instead, the issue is whether the University responded to this report against a powerful member of the University and Athletics Department in a manner consistent with then-existing legal guidance, well-recognized best practices, and institutional policy. The answer is 'no.'"

The lengthy Husch Blackwell investigation, which was prompted by a November story in USA Today, found that LSU's Title IX office has never been appropriately staffed or provided with the independence and resources to carry out the federal law's mandates. It also revealed that the university's process for reporting allegations was enormously complicated.

LSU interim president Tom Galligan Jr. said on Friday his intention is to accept and act on "every one of those 18 recommendations" that Husch Blackwell included in its report.

"We as an institution failed to live up to our commitments," he said. "We let some of those who were depending on us down. It is clear our institution as a whole deserves blame. This is an example of serious institutional failure, but people also made mistakes we cannot ignore. That cannot and must not go unaddressed."

Galligan said LSU will impose a 30-day suspension without pay for executive deputy athletic director Verge Ausberry, who is required to undergo domestic and sexual violence training. The university also imposed a 21-day suspension without pay for Miriam Segar, a former LSU basketball player who has been a part of the staff since 2005. She will also undergo the same training.

Those were the only two individuals held publicly accountable at Friday's board of supervisors meeting, as many of those involved -- including Miles, who is now the head coach at Kansas -- have since left the university. Galligan said he will consider the entire report and make further personnel decisions accordingly.

"I don't think it's going to take very long," he said.

"The issue is whether the University responded to this report against [Les Miles] in a manner consistent with then-existing legal guidance, well-recognized best practices, and institutional policy. The answer is 'no.'" Husch Blackwell report

According to the report, athletic department employee Sharon Lewis, a longtime football operations employee who lodged several reports of sexual harassment throughout her own tenure, recounted an incident in 2013 she called her "worst nightmare."

A student came to Lewis, according to the report, "very upset about something that happened when she was alone with Coach Miles." According to Lewis, the student requested her assistance in confronting Miles regarding the allegations. Another longtime football operations employee was present for the meeting and said the student was "completely traumatized" by the alleged incident, saying, "This child had a dead stare ... she just kept saying, over and over, 'You know what you did to me.'"

The investigation determined there wasn't any record of the student's concern being investigated "in a manner consistent with then-university policy." There also weren't any other records or evidence of that student being provided with any notice of her rights, options or support resources.

At the time, Miles was the highest-paid public employee in Louisiana and scheduled to make $4.3 million per year. He had just completed his eighth season as head football coach and was awarded a significant increase in his salary.

Following the incident, Alleva, then the LSU athletic director, told Miles he wasn't allowed to have any contact with student workers and hired the law firm of Taylor Porter to provide training to all athletic employees on a variety of compliance topics, including sexual harassment.

In spite of the training, in February 2013 a second student employee reported "inappropriate contact and text messages with Miles" to Lewis. The investigation concluded the second student's report of sex discrimination "was clearly not handled in a manner consistent with then university policy."

Then-interim LSU chancellor William Jenkins asked Taylor Porter to investigate the allegations with Segar's assistance. During the course of their investigation, Taylor Porter learned that numerous athletic department employees indicated that Miles became more involved with many things in the athletic department, including the selection of student employees, following his team's loss in the 2012 national championship game.

According to witnesses interviewed by Husch Blackwell, Miles allegedly participated in recruiting and interviewing female student employees and "wanted them to have a certain look." According to Husch Blackwell, at least three witnesses recalled Miles labeling the student workers as "a.m. and p.m. girls" -- a designation which Miles also openly gave to female full-time football operations staff members.

The investigative report said "several other employees recalled Miles referring to the student workers as looking like a 'bad bowling team.'"

Employees interviewed as part of Husch Blackwell's review said "only certain ones were allowed to be in the head coach's office, not everyone. And most of them were either blonde, they were all attractive, but most of them that came through here were blonde."

According to the report, another individual recalled Miles saying "many times" that "I want the blondes not the brunettes working in this office." One witness was quoted in the report saying, "It makes me want to vomit, because it was kind of that every year it got a little worse and a little worse and for a while, after a while it almost became normal that we can't hire anybody that's fat and ugly."

According to the Husch Blackwell review, there is no record of these reports of sex discrimination in the university's files and there is no record of these reports ever being investigated. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX") prohibits sex discrimination in an institution's education programs and activities.

Husch Blackwell's report disagreed with LSU's outside counsel's determination that the second student's allegations, even if true, would not constitute prohibited sexual harassment under applicable law. Husch Blackwell said that Miles "had acted inappropriately and was required to attend training."

"It is our understanding that Miles also entered into a release agreement with Student 2," the Husch Blackwell report stated, "the terms of which we are not privy."

"We as an institution failed to live up to our commitments. We let some of those who were depending on us down. It is clear our institution as a whole deserves blame. This is an example of serious institutional failure, but people also made mistakes we cannot ignore. That cannot and must not go unaddressed." Tom Galligan Jr., LSU interim president

The Nov. 16, 2020, story in USA Today reported three student LSU cases that were allegedly mishandled by the university, and two included star players Drake Davis and Derrius Guice. According to USA Today, "Guice and Davis included, at least nine LSU football players have been reported to police for sexual misconduct and dating violence since coach Ed Orgeron took over the team four years ago, records show. But the details of how LSU handled complaints against the other seven, including two who played key roles on its 2020 national championship team, remain largely secret."

The Husch Blackwell report stated that a woman said she started dating Davis during the summer of 2016 when he first arrived on campus. They met through a mutual friend and she thought Davis "seemed like a really nice guy, very charismatic, very goofy." The report stated that she said "pretty soon into [their] relationship" Davis started abusing her "verbally and emotionally ... but it was very subtle."

The Husch Blackwell report concluded that despite "all of the murkiness surrounding the [Jade] Lewis investigation, there is no question that the incident was not timely reported to the Title IX Office. There is also no question that Jade Lewis was abused by Drake Davis in May 2017 and from April 2018 until at least August 2018."

Lewis was a highly recruited tennis player who enrolled at the university in January 2017. Husch Blackwell's investigation revealed that Davis admitted to punching Lewis, and her injuries were so severe that she had "very swollen" ribs weeks after being punched.

"While we recognize the complexity of the situation -- namely, Lewis was a reluctant participant in the process and continued to initiate contact with Davis -- at the risk of being repetitive, we believe it was clear error to not interimly suspend Davis from the University at this point and move forward with disciplinary proceedings against him," the report stated.

"While we knew there were serious issues with LSU's Title IX compliance, we are shocked and appalled at the scope of the problems identified in this report," said Karen Truszkowski, an attorney for Lewis and several other victims. "Our clients are devastated to learn that the school they loved so much has not only broken their trust but hurt so many others. They are still processing this information and have nothing further to share at this time."

The Husch Blackwell investigation also focused on Guice, who was a highly recruited running back from Baton Rouge who committed to attend LSU in 2015 and became a household name in 2016. While at LSU, Guice was accused of misconduct that implicated the university's Title IX policies at least three times. According to the investigation, none of those accusations of misconduct were investigated by the university, and Guice was never disciplined for any of them. Guice's attorney has adamantly denied that Guice engaged in sexual misconduct while at LSU.

Scott Schneider, a partner at Husch Blackwell, said he promised LSU an "honest account" of what happened, and also said he has a daughter who attends LSU. He said the report "doesn't pull any punches" and is a "candid assessment" of the problems at LSU.

Of the 18 recommendations made, Schneider said the most important is appropriate staffing of the Title IX office.

"You're going to have to commit resources to bringing in talented, skilled people to help do this work," he said. "No. 2, for me, is the reporting line to the general counsel needs to change. It needs to change immediately. ... If this report is given to you, and we don't implement these recommendations, the same ills we discuss throughout the report will continue to repeat themselves."

ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. -- A man found Tiger Woods unconscious in a mangled SUV after the golf star crashed the vehicle in Southern California, authorities said in court documents obtained Friday.

The man, who lives near the site in Rolling Hills Estates, heard the crash and walked to the SUV, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Johann Schloegl wrote in an affidavit.

The man told deputies that Woods would not respond to his questions.

The first deputy on the scene, Carlos Gonzalez, has said Woods was able to talk to him and answer basic questions. Woods later told deputies that he did not know how the collision occurred and didn't remember driving.

Law enforcement has not previously disclosed that Woods had been unconscious after the crash.

The information came in a statement of probable cause requesting that a search warrant be approved for the Genesis SUV's data recorder, known as a black box. Schloegl requested data from Feb. 22 and Feb. 23. The crash occurred around 7 a.m. on Feb. 23.

"I believe the data will explain how/why the collision occurred," Schloegl wrote.

Sheriff's representatives have declined to say what was discovered in the recorder.

The 2021 GV80 driven by Woods went off a Los Angeles County road and crashed on a downhill stretch known for wrecks. The crash injured Woods' right leg, requiring surgery.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva has said Woods was driving alone in good weather, there was no evidence of impairment and the crash was "purely an accident."

Schloegl previously told USA Today that he did not seek a search warrant for Woods' blood samples, which could be screened for drugs and alcohol. In 2017, Woods checked himself into a clinic for help dealing with prescription drug medication after a DUI charge in Florida.

The lengthy surgery following the crash was to stabilize shattered tibia and fibula bones in his right leg. A combination of screws and pins were used for injuries in the ankle and foot.

It was the 10th surgery of his career, and it came two months after a fifth back surgery. Through it all, Woods has never gone an entire year without playing, dating back to his first PGA Tour event as a 16-year-old in high school.

Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell and center Rudy Gobert on Friday were both fined by the NBA for being critical of the officiating in Wednesday's loss to the Philadelphia 76ers.

Mitchell, who was also reprimanded for his conduct while exiting the court, was docked $25,000 in the statement by NBA executive vice president Kiki VanDeWeghe. Gobert was fined $20,000.

After Wednesday's game, Michell, who was hit with technical fouls on two separate plays in the final minute of overtime and was ejected with 30.5 seconds to go, said he was tired of the Jazz being "screwed" by the referees, calling the way his team's games are officiated "f---ing ridiculous."

As he left the court, Mitchell smashed a water cooler to the floor -- described by VanDeWeghe on Friday as "reckless" -- then appeared to apologize to a security guard sitting near it as he went to the visitors locker room inside the Wells Fargo Center.

Gobert also joined in with the complaints after Wednesday's game, leading to his fine.

"Our guys are not able to get calls everybody else in the f---ing league gets," Gobert said Wednesday. "We know we are the Utah Jazz, and maybe some people don't want to see us go as far as we can go, but it's disappointing.

"Three times in a row, Mike Conley is going to the rim, and they're grabbing him right in front of the officials, and there's no calls. And on the other end, there are calls that are invisible that are being made."

Free agent pitcher Sam Dyson has accepted a suspension for the entire 2021 season for violating MLB's Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy, the league announced Friday.

"Having reviewed all of the available evidence, I have concluded that Mr. Dyson violated our policy and that discipline is appropriate," commissioner Rob Manfred said in the release.

Dyson, 32, last pitched in the majors for the Minnesota Twins in 2019. The allegations were brought to light by his ex-girlfriend, Alexis Blackburn, in an Instagram post posing as her cat late that year. "I don't have to worry about getting hurt because of anger or control," the post read. "I don't have to be scared of yelling and things being hurled at mom and me."

MLB opened an investigation after the post, and Dyson hasn't pitched since the allegations came to light. As part of the policy, he will participate in a confidential and comprehensive evaluation and treatment program supervised by the Joint Policy Board.

Dyson is an eight-year veteran with a career 3.40 ERA. He's the 13th player to be suspended under the current MLB domestic abuse policy which took effect in 2015.