Tennessee dismisses LB Kivon Bennett hours after arrest

[ASFN Admin]

Tennessee dismissed outside linebacker Kivon Bennett from the football team on Tuesday, hours after he was arrested during a traffic stop. ''There is a standard our student-athletes are expected to uphold at Tennessee, and today's incident fell well short of that standard,'' coach Jeremy Pruitt said in a statement. Bennett was stopped Tuesday around 11:21 a.m. by campus police, who clocked him driving 59 mph in a 45-mph zone.

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