EAST LANSING, Mich. � Michigan State hockey player A.J. Sturges released a statement Thursday to media members criticizing the football program�s decision to reinstate Glenn Winston, the sophomore running back who injured him during an off-campus altercation in October.

�In my opinion, the immediate reinstatement of Glenn Winston to the football team reflects very poorly on Michigan State athletics,� Sturges wrote. �This decision has established weak precedent for future athletes involved in violent crimes.�
Sturges said he suffered a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain and had to have five stitches inside his mouth after taking a punch to the side of the head from Winston. Sturges missed the 2008-09 season and said he was forced to drop academic courses because of memory issues and headaches resulting from the injuries.
�This was not a fight, or a disagreement,� Sturges said. �I was in bed in my room and came downstairs after hearing the commotion caused by three cars pulling up filled with screaming and violent people. I was standing in my front yard trying to figure out what was going on when Glenn Winston punched me in the head from the side. I never saw him. I did not have any chance to protect myself at all. Neither did his other victims.
�As a hockey player, I know what a fight is. What happened that night was not a fight. What happened was a violent crime. Pure and simple.�
Associate athletics director John Lewandowski said the school had no comment beyond the statements football coach Mark Dantonio and athletics director Mark Hollis made this week.