Freshman Ahmad Bradshaw won't play with Virginia

Freshman Ahmad Bradshaw of Bluefield will not be with the Virginia football team this year, Cavaliers head coach Al Groh announced Friday.The announcement, made in a one-sentence press release, did not offer any additional information, and school officials said they had no further explanation in the matter. The announcement comes less than a week after Bradshaw, a two-sport star at Graham High School who is taking classes at Virginia this summer, was arrested and charged with underage possession of alcohol and obstruction of justice, both misdemeanors.The Daily Progress of Charlottesville reported that Bradshaw was asked by a police officer at 1:50 a.m. on Saturday, July 17 what was in the plastic cup in his hand. He replied that it was an alcoholic beverage and gave the name and date of birth of a deceased person when the officer asked for identification, the newspaper reported.Bradshaw then ran away, but officers chased him down and he resisted their attempts to take him into custody and was taken to the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.Bradshaw was The Associated Press Group AA player of the year in football in 2002 and was selected to the AP's first team in football and basketball last season. He ran for 2,557 yards and 34 touchdowns as a senior and averaged 29 points in basketball.He was expected to compete for time at cornerback with the Cavaliers.The loss of Bradshaw comes less than two weeks after Groh said that wide receiver Ottowa Anderson would not return this season. Anderson, the leading returning wideout with 33 catches last season, had already been ruled academically ineligible when he was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery in an incident with his girlfriend.

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