Manning Mooning Costs $300,000

A female athletic trainer who was mooned last year by Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning has reached a $300,000 settlement with the university.

The incident happened during spring practice last year when Jamie Whited witnessed Manning flash his bare backside in a training room. Manning said he was joking around with a male track athlete and didn’t intend for her to see.

Manning, the preseason favorite for the Heisman Trophy and the son of former NFL quarterback Archie Manning, repeatedly left messages on her home answering machine to apologize, and finally sent a registered letter.

The settlement is almost 10 times Whited’s $35,020 annual salary as an associate trainer. Whited, 28, was unavailable for comment.

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Brian Maye, the most severely penalized of five Boston College football players still with the team after a betting scandal, says he was treated unfairly.

“The punishment should fit the crime, and I think we got overly punished severely,” the senior linebacker said in his first extended interview since the NCAA suspended him July 24 for the first four games of the season.

Last Nov. 6, Boston College suspended 13 players for the last three games of last season for allegedly gambling, including two who bet against the school in one game.

The school asked the NCAA to reinstate six of them this season. One of them, linebacker Jermaine Monk, suffered a career-ending head injury in spring practice. Two players won immediate reinstatement, and two others will be eligible for the third game.

Maye, the emotional leader of the defense, can practice immediately but can’t play until the Oct. 4 game--the fifth of the season--against Georgia Tech.