RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina is challenging the NCAAs jurisdiction to pursue charges in the schools long-running academic fraud scandal and is holding off on self-imposed penalties.The school on Tuesday publicly released its response to five potentially top-level NCAA charges, which include lack of institutional control. UNC acknowledged problems tied to irregular courses in a department popular with athletes but also available to non-athletes on the Chapel Hill campus, though it argued that its accreditation agency -- not the NCAA -- was the proper authority to handle such a matter.That agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, sanctioned the school with a year of probation that expired in June.UNC made several procedural arguments before responding to each charge outlined in a Notice of Allegations (NOA) sent in April. Its response is a procedural step that will eventually lead to a hearing followed by a ruling in a case likely to push into 2017.The NCAA enforcement staff now has 60 days to respond.We had classes that didnt meet our rigor, UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham said in a teleconference with reporters, but whether or not thats a violation of a bylaw is what were asking the Committee on Infractions to determine.None of the charges was tied solely to the existence of the problematic classes in the formerly named African and Afro-American Studies (AFAM) department. UNCs response cites an internal NCAA report from March 2013 that stated as much, but adds that the document wasnt provided to school officials.Rather, the response states, UNC representatives discovered it by happenstance after traveling to NCAA headquarters to review case files in person in July 2015.The multiyear case grew as an offshoot of a 2010 probe into the football program. UNCs response referenced that earlier case, noting the NCAA investigated whether academic counselors had provided improper assistance to athletes before issuing sanctions in March 2012.UNC argued that a ruling is final, binding and conclusive according to NCAA bylaws, so the March 2012 sanctions should have precluded later charges that could have been resolved previously. That points to a current charge against former faculty chairwoman and womens basketball academic adviser Jan Boxill for providing improper assistance and suggesting a grade in a course on at least one occasion between February 2003 and July 2010.The school also cited an expired four-year statute of limitations.UNC raises these jurisdictional and procedural issues not to excuse the underlying conduct or to escape accountability for those events before its accreditor or elsewhere, the response states, but rather to ensure mutual adherence to the rules that govern NCAA enforcement actions, including this one.As a result, the jurisdictional and procedural issues make it difficult ... to assign appropriate penalties for the alleged violations, the response states.Individually, UNC disputed the institutional-control charge. It accepted that Boxill provided improper assistance in 15 of 18 cited instances, though it disagreed that she engaged in unethical conduct and suggested the charge be treated as a less-severe Level III case instead of a Level I.It also accepted that it failed to properly monitor Boxill as part of a broader oversight charge that spanned from fall 2005 to summer 2011, but suggested it be a Level II violation.Randall Roden, a Raleigh-based attorney representing Boxill, provided The Associated Press with a copy of Boxills separate response. It denies wrongdoing in the opening sentence.It did not happen, it states. Not one of the allegations against Jan Boxill is true.The case centers on independent study-style AFAM courses requiring a research paper or two while offering GPA-boosting grades. Many were misidentified as lecture courses that didnt meet.A 2014 review by former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein estimated more than 3,100 students were affected between 1993 and 2011, with athletes across numerous sports making up roughly half the enrollments.The NCAA reopened its case in 2014 and first filed charges in May 2015. UNC was near its response deadline when it reported additional information for review, pausing the process for eight months until the arrival of a new NOA.---Follow Aaron Beard on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/aaronbeardapWholesale Yeezy .ca NFL Power Rankings, overtaking the Denver Broncos and remaining ahead of NFC competition San Francisco, Carolina and New Orleans. Replica Yeezy . PAUL, Minn. https://www.wholesaleyeezyauthentic.com/ . Cote was eligible to become a free agent Feb. 15. Cote helped running back Jon Cornish run for a league-high 1,813 rushing yards en route to being named the leagues most outstanding player. 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Weve got to come back and win another one tomorrow.Michael Saunders drilled a two-run shot off Orioles starter Ubaldo Jimenez that tied the game 3-3 in the seventh.In the eighth, Jonathan Schoop walked and Wieters homered off Grilli (4-2), his 12th of the season.Matt took a ball right in the kisser tonight and Ive seen a lot of people come out of the game, Showalter said. We would have taken him out of the game, mostly because he took one in the same place last night.Brad Brach (8-2) picked up the win with 1 1/3 scoreless innings. Zach Britton got his league-leading 39th save.Blue Jays left-hander J.A. Happ fell short of tying Bostons Rick Porcello for the major league lead with 18 wins. Happ allowed three runs and six hits with three strikeouts over 6 1/3 innings.I wasnt at my best tonight but this is an elite team, especially at home, Happ said. Theyre tough. I think I made a couple mistakes; they made me pay. But we battled them all night. I gave us what I had tonight, which wasnt a ton but it was enough to keep us in the ballgame.Manny Machado hit his 34th homer of the season and 100th of his career for Baltimore. Steve Pearce went deep for the 13th time this season.Baltimores Pedro Alvarez, who got a rare start against a leftt-hander, managed two hits against Happ and is 6 for 12 in his career against him.ddddddddddddJimenez started in place of the injured Chris Tillman and allowed three runs and nine hits with three strikeouts over 6 2/3 innings.After first couple of innings, Jimenez said, I was able to use my sinker a lot. It was really good, everything was down, and we got a lot of guys hitting ground balls.The Blue Jays took a 1-0 lead in the second on a two-out, RBI single by Kevin Pillar. Jimenez then retired the next eight batters before allowing another single to Pillar in the fifth.Pearce tied the game 1-1 with a homer in the bottom half of that inning. Two batters later, Machado drove Happs 0-1 pitch over the wall in center field for a two-run homer that gave Baltimore the lead.THE BIG TENThe Orioles have three players -- Chris Davis, Machado and Mark Trumbo -- with at least 10 home runs in August. Its the first time in club history they accomplished that feat.MOVESOrioles: RHP Logan Ondrusek and OF Julio Borbon were outrighted to Double-A Bowie. Both players were designated for assignment over the weekend and cleared waivers.TRAINERS ROOMOrioles: CF Adam Jones performed drills but was held out of the lineup for the fourth consecutive game with a left hamstring strain. ... Tillman (right shoulder bursitis) could potentially throw off a mound this weekend. However, the original target dates of Sept. 9 or 10 for his next start appear unlikely, Showalter said.UP NEXTBlue Jays: Aaron Sanchez (12-2, 2.99 ERA) will be recalled from Class-A Dunedin to make the start. He spent the past 10 days in the minors to limit his innings. 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