College notes: Two Texas players won't face sexual assault charges

No charges will be brought against two Texas football players investigated after a reported sexual assault at a San Antonio hotel.

Bexar County First Assistant District Attorney Cliff Herberg said charges will not be filed against quarterback Case McCoy and linebacker Jordan Hicks.

The San Antonio Express-News reports police said the investigation is closed.

Coach Mack Brown suspended McCoy and Hicks the day before the Dec. 29 Alamo Bowl. A 21-year-old woman told police she was drinking alcohol and assaulted after inviting two men to her room.

A lawyer for Hicks said the incident was consensual.

Teo voicemails played

The person Manti Te'o says was pretending to be his online girlfriend told the Notre Dame linebacker "I love you" in voicemails that were played during his interview with Katie Couric.

Taped earlier this week and broadcast Thursday, the hour-long talk show featured three voicemails that Te'o claims were left for him last year. Te'o said they were from the person he believed to be Lennay Kekua, a woman he had fallen for online but never met face-to-face.

After the first message was played, Te'o said: "It sounds like a girl, doesn't it?"

"It does," Couric responded.

Couric suggested the person who left those messages might have been Ronaiah Tuisasosopo, a 22-year-old man who Te'o said has apologized to him for pulling the hoax.

"Well, it didn't sound like a man," Te'o said. "It sounded like a woman. If he somehow made that voice, that's incredible."

A&M makes hires

Texas A&M football coach Kevin Sumlin added assistant coaches Jake Spavital and Jeff Banks to his staff.

Spavital, who spent the past two seasons as the quarterbacks coach at West Virginia, will be the Aggies' quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator.

Banks, a former UTEP assistant, will be A&M's special teams coordinator and tight ends coach.

Briefly

Butler basketball: Shooting guard Rotnei Clarke, the Bulldogs' leading scorer out since Jan. 12 with a severely sprained neck, returned to practice and could play Saturday against Temple.

Florida State football: Offensive coordinator James Coley is leaving his alma mater for the same job at archrival Miami. Coley, 39, is the sixth Seminole assistant leaving Jimbo Fisher's staff since the end of the season.

New Mexico State football: Coach DeWayne Walker stepped down after going 10-40 in four seasons to take a job as an assistant with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Offensive coordinator Doug Martin is interim coach.

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