SportsNovember 2, 2015
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri suspended junior quarterback Maty Mauk for the rest of the season for disciplinary reasons, just six days after reinstating him. The Tigers (4-4) play 24th-ranked Mississippi State (6-2) on Thursday night at home. Freshman Drew Lock has made four starts since Mauk was first suspended...
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COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri suspended junior quarterback Maty Mauk for the rest of the season for disciplinary reasons, just six days after reinstating him.

The Tigers (4-4) play 24th-ranked Mississippi State (6-2) on Thursday night at home.

Freshman Drew Lock has made four starts since Mauk was first suspended.

The school said in a news release Sunday that it will not discuss further details of Mauk's suspension. The first suspension was for a violation of program policies.

Officiating crew suspended 2 games

CORAL GABLES, Fla.-- The Atlantic Coast Conference threw some penalty flags of its own Sunday, suspending the officiating crew that worked the Miami-Duke game for two league contests after finding they committed "a series of errors" that allowed the Hurricanes to score a wild last-play touchdown and pull out a win.

The ACC said the crew committed four errors on that play, the most grievous being not seeing Miami running back Mark Walton's knee was down as he threw one of the eight laterals the Hurricanes used on their desperate kickoff return. If that was noticed, Duke would have prevailed since no time was left on the clock.

Per league rule, the outcome -- Miami 30, Duke 27 -- cannot be overturned.

"At the end of the day, we got the win," Miami's Corn Elder, who took the final lateral 91 yards for the winning score, said Sunday after the Hurricanes returned from Duke. "So no matter what they say, we won. That's all that matters."

That surely wasn't Duke's opinion, nor was it that of the ACC.

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"Unfortunately, there is no mechanism that I know of in place to reverse an outcome of a game," Duke coach David Cutcliffe said. "I do believe that there should be. ... What instant replay is in place for is to get it right. And we did not get it right."

The on-field crew members -- referee Jerry Magallanes, umpire Terrence Ramsay, linesman Mike Owens, line judge Jim Slayton, back judge Robert Luklan, field judge Bill Dolbow, side judge Michael McCarthy and center judge Tracy Lynch -- got two-game bans, as did the game's replay official and communicator.

In addition to not seeing that Walton was down, the ACC said the crew also missed a block in the back, erred in how they waved off an erroneous penalty call and should have penalized Miami's Rashawn Scott for running from the sideline onto the field in celebration before the play was over. None of those three events would have ended the game, but had Walton been ruled down correctly, all that would have been moot.

Hawaii fires Chow after loss to Air Force

HONOLULU -- Norm Chow was fired as Hawaii's football coach Sunday, a day after the Rainbow Warriors dropped to 2-7 with a 58-7 home loss to Air Force.

Athletic director David Matlin said Chris Naeole will finish the season as interim head coach.

The 69-year-old Chow was 10-36 overall and 4-25 in the Mountain West Conference in four seasons at Hawaii. The Rainbow Warriors are 0-5 this season in the Mountain West.

From Honolulu, Chow took over the Hawaii program after a long run as an assistant coach with BYU, North Carolina State, Southern California, the NFL's Tennessee Titans, UCLA and alma mater Utah. He was the offensive coordinator on national championship staffs at BYU in 1984 and Southern California in 2003 and '04, and coached Heisman Trophy winners Ty Detmer, Carson Palmer and Matt Leinert.

Hawaii went 3-9 overall and 1-7 in the Mountain West in 2012, dipped to 1-11 and 0-8 in 2013, and was 4-9 and 3-5 last season.

-- From wire reports

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