Commercial Content 21+ Jaylen Brown has been the subject of trade rumors all season long, but after a horrific Game 7 performance and loss to the Miami Heat, it’s officially time to let the speculation begin. In what will be a long offseason for the Celtics, they now need to decide how to manage this …
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Gift this article Share this article paywall-free. RALPH D. RUSSO Associated Press DESTIN, Fla. — Alabama coach Nick Saban says college football is not a business that operates like the NFL and warned that without more uniform rules on player compensation only the biggest spenders will compete for championships. Saban met with reporters Tuesday as …
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Missouri’s Eli Drinkwitz was the first football coach to address the media at the Southeastern Conference’s spring meetings Tuesday in Destin, Florida, and as usual, he shared strong comments on the biggest issues facing college sports. Drinkwitz was roundly criticized on Twitter for a comment that was parsed out of a much longer answer addressing …
Gift this article Share this article paywall-free. Creighton center Ryan Kalkbrenner is withdrawing from the NBA draft and returning to school for a fourth season, the big man announced on Twitter Monday evening. Kalkbrenner’s decision comes just a couple days before the deadline to withdraw from the draft. Over a two-day span of scrimmages at …
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PARIS (AP) — You might assume that the opponents for Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic in the French Open’s first round would come away from their straight-set losses Monday feeling too overwhelmed by the play of the two tournament favorites. You would be wrong. Forget the scores and the point-by-point particulars on a windy day …
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Commercial Content 21+ Less than a week after Power Five win totals dropped, oddsmakers are back with win totals for the Group of Five. The biggest advantages in preseason college football futures often come from the lower-level FBS conferences. Just like the Power Five, a shift has taken place in conference realignment at the G5 …
DENVER (AP) — The Denver Nuggets don’t brawl with other teams or bicker among themselves. It’s been almost a decade since they fired a coach. Their most spectacular highlights often involve sublime skip passes across the court — or a backward, half-court shot from their mascot, Rocky, during a break in the action. Some might …
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The path to Fremd junior Andrew Spurck’s state singles championship in boys tennis began nearly 10 years ago on a court at Eagle Park in Palatine. There, on the other side of the net, stood his mother, Jennifer, and a bucket of tennis balls. Mom knows a thing or 200 about tennis. “Mom” is the …
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Estimated read time: 3-4 minutes SALT LAKE CITY — A lot has changed in 29 years. But for Utah softball, there’s at least one thing that remains consistent. The 1994 softball team, which was then a member of the WAC, was the last Utah team to make an appearance in the College World Series — …
PARIS (AP) — Unable to sleep the night before her first-round match at the French Open against Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, the Grand Slam tournament’s No. 2 seed, Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine checked her phone at 5 a.m. Sunday and saw disturbing news back home in Kyiv. At least one person was killed when the …
