Month: November 2020

8:26 PM ET Associated Press UTEP suspended football activities Sunday and called off another game after “multiple members” of the football team tested positive for COVID-19. The Miners won’t play host to Southern Miss as scheduled Friday after scrapping this weekend’s game at Rice because of the positive tests. It’s the third straight UTEP game
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6:57 PM ET DENVER — Just over 24 hours after the Denver Broncos pulled all three of their quarterbacks off the practice field because of COVID-19 contact tracing protocols, they opened a game with running back Phillip Lindsay taking a direct snap and spent most of the day with a practice squad wide receiver as
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5:49 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars have fired general manager Dave Caldwell after a third consecutive season of double-digit losses. Caldwell has been the Jaguars’ GM since January 2013 and has presided over only one winning season. The Jaguars are 39-86 in his tenure and have lost 10 or more games in
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6:07 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Maryland basketball star Len Bias, who was chosen No. 2 by the Boston Celtics in the 1986 NBA draft before dying days later of a drug overdose, was chosen for induction into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday. Bias leads a group of
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3:53 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Richmond men’s basketball team could hardly have played worse in the first half Sunday, yet it trailed No. 10 Kentucky by only a few points. The Spiders pulled confidence from the small deficit and turned that into better execution after halftime, leading to the biggest win
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3:53 PM ET The Boston Celtics have traded Gordon Hayward and second-round draft picks in 2023 and 2024 to the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for a conditional 2022 second-round draft pick. The sign-and-trade agreement creates a $27.9 million trade exception for the Celtics, the largest in NBA history. Hayward, 30, declined his $34.2 million player
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2:58 PM ET LSU star wide receiver Terrace Marshall Jr. is opting out of the remainder of the season, a source told ESPN. Marshall ranks third in the SEC in receiving yards (731) and touchdowns (10). The 6-foot-3 junior from Bossier City, Louisiana, has 23 touchdown receptions over the past two seasons. ESPN’s Mel Kiper
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2:17 PM ET Associated Press Alabama is the unanimous No. 1 again in The Associated Press college football poll as the top eight teams in the rankings held steady for the fourth week in a row. The Crimson Tide got 62 first-place votes for the second consecutive week and are followed by No. 2 Notre
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2:24 PM ET Vanderbilt has parted ways with coach Derek Mason as the Commodores are winless in 2020, the school announced Sunday. Mason was 27-55 at the school, including a 0-8 mark this season against only SEC opponents. The Commodores have lost 12 straight SEC games, the longest active streak for a Power 5 school.
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