In Brief
PGA event moving to Mexico CityDUBLIN, Ohio — Donald Trump is losing business to Mexico — a prestigious golf tournament at his resort at Doral.The PGA Tour announced that a World Golf Championship, which attracts the best players in the world and has been at Trump-owned Doral in South Florida since 2007, is relocating to Mexico City next year.The decision incensed Trump, who suggested in a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity, “I hope they have kidnapping insurance.”
Concussion ruling won’t be reconsideredPHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court in Philadelphia says it won’t reconsider a ruling that upholds the potential $1 billion settlement of NFL concussion claims.Critics of the plan for retired players had hoped the full court would reconsider the approval granted by a three-judge panel in April. They say the lead players’ lawyers traded away compensation for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, to boost awards for less common problems.The settlement plan could pay several million dollars to young players with severe neurological diseases, but most ex-players would get far less.The settlement also offers medical monitoring to more than 20,000 retirees for the next 65 years.The challengers still could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Baylor chancellor Starr resigns postWACO, Texas — Ken Starr resigned as Baylor University’s chancellor a week after the former prosecutor who led the investigation of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal was removed as the school’s president over its handling of sexual assault complaints against football players.Starr, who will continue to teach at the law school, told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” in an interview that he didn’t know about the allegations of sexual assault involving members of Baylor’s vaunted football program until media reports first surfaced in 2015 during a player’s trial.The school hired Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton to investigate allegations surrounding the football team last year.
