Month: July 2021

11:27 AM ET Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby kicked off Big 12 media days on Wednesday with a reminder that college football will still be dealing with the COVID pandemic this fall, and made a strong push for players to be vaccinated. Bowlsby was proud that the Big 12 completed 90 percent of its schedule
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11:17 AM ET Free-agent cornerback Richard Sherman was booked at 6:08 a.m. local time at the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle for “Burglary Domestic Violence,” according to public records. Sherman also was denied bail. Sherman, 33, completed his third season with the San Francisco 49ers in 2020 after spending the first seven seasons of
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9:35 AM ET Ohio‘s Frank Solich, the winningest coach in MAC history and the fourth-winningest active coach in all of college football, is stepping down to focus on his health, the school announced on Wednesday. Offensive coordinator Tim Albin has been promoted to head coach, having already agreed to a new four-year contract. Solich, 76,
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10:16 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Candace Parker grew up playing video games, and now she’ll be the first female basketball player on the cover of one. The Chicago Sky star will appear on the NBA 2K22 cover for the WNBA 25th Anniversary special edition when it’s released Sept. 10. “I grew up
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9:41 PM ET The UFC’s September pay-per-view event — UFC 266 on Sept. 25 in Las Vegas — will officially feature two title fights, UFC president Dana White told ESPN. Featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski will face Brian Ortega in the main event of UFC 266 inside T-Mobile Arena. In the co-main event, women’s flyweight champion
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7:36 AM ET The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said it is investigating two matches from this month’s Wimbledon Grand Slam after bookmakers flagged “possible irregular betting patterns.” “Two alerts [were] provided to us during the Championships from the betting industry indicating possible irregular betting patterns,” an ITIA spokesperson told Reuters. 1 Related “We are
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5:17 AM ET Lindsay du Plessis Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr says that when defensive end Carl Nassib came out as gay in June, he had no idea. But, he told the “Brothers from Another” podcast, he wasted no time telling his teammate he had his full support. Nassib became the first active openly
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