AL-SEN: Tommy Tuberville handed a one-game suspension to player charged with rape of 15-year-old

[RandySF]

When Clifton Robinson, the short but quick receiver from Naples, Florida, returned to the Auburn University football team in August 1999 after pleading guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor to avoid going to trial after being charged with the second-degree rape of a 15-year-old girl, first-year head coach Tommy Tuberville pledged to figure out the right punishment for him.

"Clifton is back on the team," Tuberville said. "He and I will sit down today, and I'll tell him that we do things right around here, so he can expect there will be some punishment. What it is, I don't know yet."

That punishment ended up being a mere one-game suspension from the team's Sept. 4 season opener against Appalachian State. Auburn won 22-15.

Tuberville, now running for the Republican Senate nomination in Alabama with the endorsement of President Trump, is locked in a competitive primary against former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The winner will face Democratic incumbent Doug Jones. The Tuberville campaign has not yet responded to a Washington Examiner request for comment.



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[JT45242]

1. One double a...or it would have only been a half

If app state had been 1A at the time, now called FBS, it would have been a half.

If it had been an SEC school it would have been one drive.

Let's hope that Tommy is the same lazy golf player he was while he was stealing money from the University of Cincinnati pretending to be a head coach. If he puts as much energy into getting elected as he did his last job, we might hold that seat.

[mnmoderatedem]

2. wow, what is it with Alabama Senate republicans?

first Judge Roy Moore and now this. Plus Sessions, who trump will trash on.

Maybe Jones can hang on to that seat after all. I had pretty much written it off. I know his win was sweet, but it was against the freakishly bad candidate Moore, and it's ruby red Alabama.

Maybe Moore will run again.

[House of Roberts]

3. Moore did run, but Tuberville and Sessions are in the runoff July 14th.

Rabid Roy, that Jesus boy, didn't even get close this time.