The Southeastern Conference passed a rule Tuesday banning players who have been drafted by NFL, NBA or WNBA teams or listed on rosters in those leagues, joining the Big Ten in taking a strong stand against an unexpected surge of pro players trying to return to college with the NCAA mired in a ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The eligibility chaos across college football has seeped into depth charts for several programs with the regular season fast approaching. The competition at Minnesota for the place kicking job has sure become complicated. Brady Denaburg handled that job last year for the Gophers after spending his first three college seasons at Syracuse, and he was out of the picture until a federal judge in Denver ruled on July 31 that athletes from the 2022 high school class were eligible for a fifth year. The NCAA had previously excluded that class from the new ...
As the season winds down, Houston slugger Yordan Alvarez will have to worry about two sets of spoilers. The first is the more traditional type — teams that will try to beat the Astros in key games and deny them a spot in the postseason. The other includes individual spoilers — players ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York used an alias when he sent text messages over two days to a woman he believed to be a prostitute before he was arrested in a sting operation in Ohio, according to a police incident report obtained Tuesday. The report from the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force had more than two pages redacted but provided more details about what led to York's arrest and ultimately to him pleading no contest Monday to two misdemeanors. York initially responded to an advertisement placed by police on a known prostitution website ...
ATLANTA (AP) — The success of a new PGA Tour postseason format depends largely on getting fans to understand what it means. And money is not the answer. Golf was never meant to have a Super Bowl or a World Series, no matter how hard the tour has tried to make it feel that way over the last 20 years. What matters is a green jacket in April and a silver claret jug in July. Golf has been defined by four majors since Arnold Palmer said so in 1960. So whether the new postseason format that CEO Brian Rolapp announced Tuesday — seven days of match play over two weeks in two cities — ...
CONNORVILLE — After seeming to lose the momentum and dropping the third set to be denied a sweep, Buckeye Local head coach Abbey Wilson knew getting the momentum back in the fourth set would be pivotal if her team was going to get a victory. Get the momentum back her team did indeed. ...
