The black man who fatally stabbed University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard during an on-campus fight in 2009 has been sentenced to 18 years in prison

John Lomax III, 22, had been charged with murder, but pleaded no contest to first-degree manslaughter in January 2011. He had faced up to 20 years in prison. Investigators believe the fight started over a comment a player made about a woman. Howard died of a single stab wound.