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Panthers interim general manager Marty Hurney will meet with an NFL investigator Friday to answer his ex-wife’s claims of harassment.

Hurney’s attorney Kathleen Lucchesi said Hurney will meet with Lisa Friel Sam Martin Jersey , the NFL’s special counsel for investigations, in Charlotte. Hurney was placed on a paid administrative leave Wednesday by Carolina while the NFL investigates the matter, even though his ex-wife Jeannie Hurney has withdrawn her complaint.

Hurney is one of four men who have interviewed for the team’s full-time general manager position.

His current contract expires June 30.

Lucchesi told The Associated Press in an email that Hurney is ”very upset” by the allegations ”first, because they are not true, and second, because she made them at a time she and the rest of Charlotte knew Marty was interviewing for the GM job with the Panthers.”

Houston’s Jimmy Raye III, Buffalo’s Lake Dawson and San Francisco’s Martin Mayhew have also interviewed for the full-time GM position.

”He is hopeful that it won’t affect his consideration for the Panthers GM position,” Lucchesi said of Hurney.

Marty and Jeannie Hurney divorced in 2013.

Hurney remarried in 2016 and has a 14-month old child at home.

”Ms. Hurney has a history of making fictitious claims against Marty since they divorced,” Lucchesi said. ”Even though Marty has remarried, Ms. Hurney has continued her baseless and malicious assault on Marty’s character. It’s unfortunate that Marty now has to deal with the fallout of Ms. Hurney’s vindictive conduct.”

Hurney remains in limbo while awaiting the outcome of the NFL investigation while the Panthers approach a busy offseason with free agency and the NFL draft looming.

The Panthers brought back Hurney to be their interim general manager in July after owner Jerry Richardson fired Dave Gettleman days before the start of training camp. Hurney was the Panthers GM from 1998 through 2012.

Hurney is credited for building the core of a team that reached the Super Bowl two years ago.

Even though the complaint has been withdrawn Darius Slay Jersey , NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the league would continue to review the case under the league’s personal conduct policy.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — Trevor Bauer will pursue a piece of Cleveland Indians history Friday night when he opens a three-game series against the Oakland Athletics.

Having recorded at least eight strikeouts in all five of his starts this month, Bauer needs 16 to match Hall of Famer Bob Feller’s franchise record of 70 for the month of June, set in 1946.

Bauer’s career high for strikeouts in a game is 14, set last May against the A’s in just seven innings.

More realistically, the California native needs 10 strikeouts to equal the second-best June total in Indians history, set by Sam McDowell in 1965.

Bauer (7-5, 2.44), who ranks third in the American League in strikeouts, has recorded 10 or more six times in his last eight starts Tavon Wilson Jersey , going 5-2 in the process.

The 27-year-old right-hander has never won in Oakland, going 0-2 with a 5.14 ERA in three starts. He’s 1-2 with a 4.44 ERA in five career starts against the A’s overall.

One A’s hitter Bauer has dominated in the past is hot-hitting Jed Lowrie, who has gone 1-for-9 in his career against him with five strikeouts in their all-time head-to-heads.

Lowrie had 15 hits in nine starts on Oakland’s just-completed road trip, raising his average to .294.

Bauer will be facing an A’s team that’s playing its best ball of the season. Oakland is coming off a four-game sweep at Detroit that capped a 7-2 trip.

The A’s have won nine of 11 overall.

The A’s have been even better against the Indians in recent years, winning seven of the last eight meetings in Oakland, including all three on Cleveland’s visit last July.

Right-hander Paul Blackburn (1-2, 8.83) will oppose Bauer.

The 24-year-old has alternated good and bad outings in his four appearances since returning from a strained right forearm that delayed the start of his season almost two full months.

He’s coming off one of the ugly ones, having allowed six runs and eight hits in five innings in a 10-3 loss to the Chicago White Sox on Sunday, but A’s pitching coach Scott Emerson noted he was impressed with the first four innings, during Blackburn pitched scoreless Matt Prater Jersey , one-hit ball.

“It was tough for him, one rehab stint and then thrown into the fire,” Emerson said of the abrupt start to Blackburn’s season. “We’re past that now, and I told him now is when we start putting our stuff together and getting the outs we’re supposed to get. We can’t use (the injury) as a crutch anymore. It’s go time; he understands that.”

Blackburn has made one career start against the Indians, compiling a 0-0 record and 4.50 ERA.

The Indians head west after having lost two of three in St. Louis. They had won their previous seven games.

The Indians actually beat the A’s into Oakland, having had Thursday off while the A’s were finishing up their trip in Detroit.

They are coming off a 5-1 win over the Cardinals in which rookie Shane Bieber not only recorded his third straight win but also his first major league hit, a double off fellow rookie Jack Flaherty.

The A’s won’t see Bieber in the series … except as a possible pinch hitter.