{"id":239,"date":"2010-09-15T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=239"},"modified":"2010-09-15T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T20:36:00","slug":"south-carolina-kicks-saunders-off-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina kicks Saunders off the team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grfx.cstv.com\/photos\/schools\/scar\/sports\/m-footbl\/auto_headshot\/4917829.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 105px; height: 145px;\" src=\"http:\/\/grfx.cstv.com\/photos\/schools\/scar\/sports\/m-footbl\/auto_headshot\/4917829.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">South Carolina has kicked tight end Weslye Saunders off its football team, athletics director Eric Hyman announced Wednesday, which is a pretty interesting development in light of the fact that North Carolina&#8217;s issues with the NCAA and academic irregularities continue.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201cWeslye Saunders is no longer part of our football program,\u201d Hyman said in a statement, according to The Columbia State newspaper. \u201cBeyond that, I will have no further comment.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">UNC&#8217;s Marvin Austin is not practicing with the team but there is no resolution to his issue. Meanwhile, 12 players could miss Saturday&#8217;s game with Georgia Tech and there is no definitive end in sight.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Saunders, of course, is the son of News &amp; Observer columnist Barry Saunders, who has said little on this issue to the public. But South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier is a stickler for NCAA rules. And whether you like his swaggering style or not, you have to admit he runs a clean program.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina has kicked tight end Weslye Saunders off its football team, athletics director Eric Hyman announced Wednesday, which is a pretty interesting development in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}