Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino placed on administrative leave

Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino was placed on paid administrative leave Thursday night, less than a week after he and a 25-year-old female athletic department employee were involved in a motorcycle crash, athletic director Jeff Long announced. 

Shortly before Long spoke at a press conference, Petrino apologized for the events surrounding his wreck while also admitting to a “previous inappropriate relationship” in a released statement. 

Petrino at first did not tell the school that Jessica Dorrell, a former Arkansas volleyball player and current Razorback Foundation fundraiser, was his passenger in a wreck that sent the coach to the hospital. That information was only revealed earlier Thursday when the official police report was released.        Full Read