There are two lessons: 1. They will all leave. All of them. Coaches and players are effectively on one-year contracts, so plan accordingly. 2. The spirit of DeLoss Dodds has infiltrated the body of Chris Del Conte. The last week of June of 2024 will long be remembered as a “high point” in th…
Dylan Dreiling hit a two-run homer in the seventh, Lavares Tears followed with an RBI double, and Tennessee beat Texas A&M 6-5 in Game 3.
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Wednesday was a momentous day for Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Willmott, whose stirring and significant latest film, “The Heroic True-Life Adventures of Alvin Brooks,” premiered at the Screenland Armour as part of the Juneteenth Film Festival. The documentary about the 92-y…
ATLANTA — The 1994 World Cup didn’t swing by Atlanta. Nine U.S. cities — New York, L.A., D.C., San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Orlando, Detroit — got games. We did not. It was no great loss. That World Cup set records for attendance, but the event itself stirs no fond memories. The f…
Texas A&M has weathered a run of injuries to reach the College World Series finals against top-ranked Tennessee, starting Saturday in Omaha, Neb.
PITTSBURGH — I'm as crotchety and stuck in my ways as anyone. I mean, I was already an old man yelling at clouds in about 1990 and have always been somewhat of a traditionalist when it comes to sports. But even I have been able to adapt and accept the new world of college athletics — the tra…
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CLEVELAND — Big-league baseball was always the goal, sure. But Luke Raley figured that was a longshot. When he was playing ball at nearby Lake Erie College, he studied special education and planned to pursue a career as a teacher or guidance counselor. "Honestly, when I went to a small Division II school, I didn't see this as my future," the Seattle Mariners outfielder said Wednesday ...
MIAMI — Calais Campbell is the last of a dying breed. He’s the last true Miami Hurricane from the glory days when the Canes dominated college football, an era where opponents once cowered at the mention of The U. He’s the only one left from that era in the early 2000’s because he has lasted 16 seasons in the NFL, and if we’re being honest he has done far more than merely hold on. In fact, the ...
TAMPA BAY, Fla. — He wore neither bling nor bold colors the night the Bucs drafted him. Instead, University of Alabama edge rusher Chris Braswell opted for a white robe, a Muslim symbol of positivity and purity. On a night his name drew national attention, the attire might have been dismissed as a superficial gesture of faith, but Braswell had long since quelled any such skepticism. For years, ...
Angelo Dominguez returned from injury to finally play his first season of college soccer, Anthony Mora is recovering from a current injury, and Emmanuel Duran hopes to keep avoiding injury.
Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese called it "a basketball play." Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark said, "It's just part of basketball." Fever coach Christie Sides said: "The right call was made in that moment." Former USC and NFL quarterback Matt Leinart posted on X: "Angel Reese should be suspended. Period." Um, yeah, more on his take in a bit. All of the comments above were regarding a play ...
ATLANTA — Bobby Cremins has never been more worried about the state of college basketball, the game that gave him a career and made him a legend at Georgia Tech. Rosters are turned over annually as players come and go through the transfer portal — sometimes leaving at the coach’s insistence — in pursuit of more playing time, larger name, image and likeness deals or both. “It just seems like ...
A jury in Douglas County spent less than two hours deliberating the verdict. The 23-year-old Shannon was accused of committing sexual assault last September.
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Terrence Shannon Jr., the University of Illinois men’s basketball star and potential first-round pick in this month’s NBA draft, has been found not guilty of grabbing an 18-year-old woman’s buttocks under her skirt and penetrating her vagina with his finger in September at a bar near the University of Kansas campus. The 23-year-old Chicago native sat motionless as a Douglas ...
Dan Hurley says it wasn't a "leverage play" when he rejected a six-year, $70 million offer to coach the Los Angeles Lakers. The UConn coach says he had already agreed to a new contract with the Huskies. Hurley has led UConn to back-to-back national titles. He spoke Thursday on "The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz" about what he called a difficult decision between leaving for the Lakers and staying at UConn. He says it would have been a thrill to coach LeBron James. But he added that he has a deal in place at UConn that would make him the nation's highest-paid college coach.
The College World Series is in its fourth year without general admission tickets. Great for avoiding pregame lines behind Omaha's center field. Not so much for budgets for long-distance arrivals.
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Prosecutors rested their case Wednesday in the rape trial of Terrence Shannon Jr. as jurors heard testimony from his accuser’s best friend and from a second-team All-American on the University of Kansas men’s basketball team, both of whom were at the crowded bar near KU’s campus the night of the alleged assault. Shannon, a Chicago native and University of Illinois men’s ...
Sqore compiled a ranking of the five biggest draft busts in NBA history using Basketball Reference data, including win shares and VORP.
Jon Rothstein on Dan Hurley Staying at UConn - The Early Line
DENVER — Jon Cooper goes so far back with Sean Payton, he remembers when the Denver Broncos coach was the second-smartest guy in the room. “I watched him play football in high school (in Chicago), that’s how far back I go with Sean,” Cooper, associate general manager and senior draft analyst with the Ourlads scouting service, chuckled over the phone. “I know what kind of competitor he is. His ...
LAWRENCE, Kan. — It was an emotional second day in Terrence Shannon Jr.’s rape trial as his accuser took the witness stand and described for a Douglas County jury the night she said the Chicago native and University of Illinois men’s basketball standout penetrated her vagina with his finger while at a crowded bar near the University of Kansas campus. “I was terrified,” the woman, now 19, told ...
At a time of significant growth and visibility in the sport, some coaches are concerned money could be steered away, threatening softball's stability once the rules fully take shape.
RALEIGH, N.C. — A group of players from N.C. State’s 1983 national championship basketball team are suing the NCAA for using their name, image and likeness without their permission or providing compensation, citing the 2021 Supreme Court antitrust case against the governing body. The lawsuit, filed in Wake County on Monday, says the NCAA used images and videos of the “Cardiac Pack” to ...
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Jury selection began Monday in the rape trial of Terrence Shannon Jr., the 23-year-old Chicago native and University of Illinois men’s basketball standout accused of grabbing an 18-year-old woman’s buttocks under her skirt and penetrating her vagina with his finger in September at a bar near the University of Kansas campus. Shannon faces one count of rape or an alternative ...
ATLANTA — It’s not yet summer, as determined by the solstice. It is summer for college football, as determined by the calendar. It’s finally safe to assume that rosters are set now that nearly every coveted player in the college football transfer portal has picked a new team. Coaching staffs have been hired. Spring practices are over. It’s time to take stock of the top of college football. If ...
SEATTLE — College sports is submerged in uncertainty. Or, perhaps, the more optimistic term is "opportunity." It all depends on your perspective. On Wednesday, Anne McCoy — the interim athletic director at Washington State — provided plenty, sitting for an extended interview at The Seattle Times newsroom. She did so during a tumultuous period both for her institution and the entire industry, ...
LOS ANGELES — A lot of barking goes on in a college football locker room. Coaches barking at players. Players barking at each other. The entire team barking and howling just before bursting onto the field to begin a game. An actual dog once barked in the USC locker room. His name was Quebec, and since 2011 the yellow Labrador was the guide dog for Jake Olson, who became a national inspiration ...
DENVER — Welcome to the Deion Sanders Era, where Colorado is last in the Pac-12 but first in irony. Because to hear scouts tell it, the notion that Shilo Sanders needs cash is … probably costing him money. “The bankruptcy and the fact that he has been playing under his father with the last two programs has not (helped),” Dave Syvertsen, longtime scout and senior draft analyst with the ...
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