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RALEIGH, N.C. -- The NCAAs academic case against North Carolina now has an added step likely to delay resolution a little longer: a procedural hearing.The school is scheduled to appear before an NCAA infractions committee panel Oct. 28 in the case tied to its long-running academic fraud scandal. But the hearing will focus on UNCs procedural arguments in its response to five serious charges instead of whether violations occurred on the Chapel Hill campus.The school released a letter Friday from the NCAA setting the date for Indianapolis. UNC faces five potentially top-level charges, including lack of institutional control, in a case that grew as an offshoot of a 2010 inquiry into the football program.The panel will not discuss the underlying facts or allegations for the purpose of finding facts, concluding whether violations occurred or prescribing penalties, the letter states, noting the NCAA used a similar step in a 2006 case involving Ohio State.The NCAAs letter, dated Monday, also names the seven members of the infractions committee panel tabbed to handle the UNC case. It includes Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey as the chief hearing officer and former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales from President George W. Bushs cabinet.Stu Brown, an Atlanta-based attorney who has worked with schools on compliance issues, said he expected the procedural hearing and ruling might add another 4-6 weeks to the process. The case would likely resume a typical course with another hearing on the merits of the charges, with the panel issuing a ruling weeks to months afterward.Brown said UNC could potentially pare down the record of the case against it if successful in some of its claims.Its almost a no-lose opportunity for Carolina, Brown said. If Carolina wins on this procedural stuff and gets some of those allegations or evidence excluded, thats a win for Carolina. If nothing gets excluded ... theyre no worse off in terms of what they face in the Notice of Allegations.Still, the timeline was already likely to carry this case into 2017, approaching seven years since NCAA investigators first arrived on campus in the original football case focused on improper benefits and academic misconduct.The Oct. 28 hearing will come exactly five years after UNCs hearing in that case.In its August response, UNC challenged the NCAAs jurisdiction to pursue charges in a case centered on problems in the formerly named African and Afro-American Studies (AFAM) department. It argued that its accreditation agency -- which sanctioned the school with a year of probation that expired in June -- was the proper authority to handle the matter.The schools procedural arguments cited an expired four-year statute of limitations. It stated a March 2012 ruling that included sanctions against the football program should have precluded later charges since some of the academic issues were examined during that first probe starting in fall 2011.Then theres the issue of an independent 2014 probe into the AFAM problems by former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein, most notably lecture classes that didnt meet and operated as independent study. Wainstein interviewed the two people most directly linked to the irregularities -- former department chairman Julius Nyangoro and retired office administrator Deborah Crowder -- and estimated that about 3,100 students were affected between 1993 and 2011 with athletes across several sports representing about half the enrollments in the problem courses.The NCAA enforcement staff cited Wainsteins report in its Notice of Allegations outlining charges in April. 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YAS MARINA, Abu Dhabi -- Nico Rosberg has praised the skill Lewis Hamilton displayed when he tried to back him into the chasing pack at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and force one last twist in the 2016 championship tale.In his last throw of the dice, Hamilton lapped over a second off the pace in an attempt to back Rosberg into Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen behind. If both drivers found a way past Rosberg, Hamilton would have been back on track for the title, but ultimately it did not pay off.When it was put to Rosberg that he could have attempted to pass Hamilton, the newly-crowned world champion praised the way in which Hamilton executed his tactics.Lewis was using all of his skill to do it perfectly so there was absolutely no way for me to be able to get by, of course I thought about it but it was just pointless, he said. There was no way [for me to get past Hamilton]. He did it in a good way. In a perfect way.When he was asked whether he thought Hamiltons tactics were correct, Rosberg added: Thats a pretty simple discussion. You can understand the teams perspective and you can understand Lewis perspective so thats it.Hamiltons slow pace earlier in the race meant Rosberg briefly fell behind Verstappen and was forced to make a decisive overtaking manoeuvre to keep his championship challenge on track.dddddddddddd Rosberg said it was one of the best passes of his career as he went wheel-to-wheel with the teenager through both apexes of the chicane.Oh for sure it was great. Definitely a great one, fair play to him also. He went full on aggressive, he didnt give an inch, as usual but fair play. We didnt collide and I got by. It felt amazingly good. It was an awesome feeling at the time. So intense, unbelievably intense, never felt anything like that in the car before.Rosberg said the combination of the overtake, Hamiltons tactics and what was at stake made the race one of the most stressful of his career.The feelings out there in that battle with Max, unreal. Really unreal. I hope I dont experience that again anytime soon. The same again at the end, pressure on from behind, Lewis driving slow in front and really, it was a tough one. It was so Intense, the race. It was really intense out there and so tough. In the end those last couple of laps with those two guys behind me, if I dropped behind them its over so not enjoyable. ' ' '