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Transfers are fueling some of college football’s biggest success stories as teams embrace the portalVideo
Clemson, the reigning ACC champion, has one player on its depth chart who arrived in Death Valley via the transfer portal: the backup quarterback. No. 4 Florida State is trying to reclaim the ACC crown from the Tigers and has used the portal to supercharge a rebuild under coach Mike...
Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker says ‘other motives’ behind his firing for alleged misconductVideo
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Suspended Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker said Tuesday that he is “disappointed — but not surprised” that the school intends to fire him for misconduct involving activist and rape survivor Brenda Tracy and suggested “other motives are at play” in the school’s decision. The university...
Column: Duane Bock thought he would have the summer off. Now the caddie is going to the Ryder CupVideo
Duane Bock finally gets a chance to caddie in the Ryder Cup, and to have told him that at the start of the year would have meant only one thing. “That Kevin Kisner had a great year,” Bock said Monday as he unpacked from a quick trip to Europe to...
Colorado State coach says safety Henry Blackburn received death threats for hit on Travis HunterVideo
DENVER — Colorado State coach Jay Norvell said Monday that senior safety Henry Blackburn has been receiving death threats since his late hit that hospitalized Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter. Blackburn drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty Saturday night for the blow he delivered to Hunter’s midsection on a deep pass...
Phil Mickelson says he’s done gambling and is on the road to being ‘the person I want to be’Video
Phil Mickelson won’t be betting on football this year — much less the Ryder Cup — saying in a lengthy social media post Monday that he previously crossed the line from moderation into addiction, and “it wasn’t any fun.” “The money wasn’t ever the issue since our financial security has...
Column: Spire is a key player in NASCAR’s charter game. A new revenue model should reward all teamsVideo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Nobody wanted a charter in 2018, when Barney Visser wanted to sell the most valuable current franchise in NASCAR. Visser had won the 2017 Cup Series title with Furniture Row Racing and Martin Truex Jr. A heart attack followed by bypass surgery kept Visser from the final...
Michigan State tells football coach Mel Tucker it will fire him for misconduct with rape survivor
Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller told suspended football coach Mel Tucker Monday that he will be fired without compensation for misconduct involving activist and rape survivor Brenda Tracy. “The notice provides Tucker with seven calendar days to respond and present reasons to me and the interim president as to...
Denny Hamlin doubles down in declaration this is his year
Denny Hamlin didn’t chill Sunday with his bravado that this is the year he finally will win a NASCAR championship. The day after his win at Bristol Motor Speedway hurdled Hamlin and his No. 11 team into the second round of NASCAR’s playoffs, Hamlin still was pumping his chest. “It’s...
No. 13 Alabama is out of the AP top 10 for 1st time since 2015
No. 13 Alabama is out of the top 10 of the Associated Press college football poll for the first time in eight years, and Georgia remained No. 1 on Sunday. Georgia received 57 first-place votes in the AP Top 25. Michigan held at No. 2 with two first-place votes. No....
Colorado 2-way star Travis Hunter taken to hospital during game after late hit vs. CSUVideo
BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado rallied for the win over Colorado State on Saturday night but lost two-way star Travis Hunter when he was taken to a hospital for an evaluation during the third quarter at Folsom Field. The school didn’t immediately announce the reason Hunter was ruled...
Denny Hamlin wins at Bristol; champ Joey Logano eliminated from playoffs
Denny Hamlin won NASCAR’s playoff race at Bristol Motor Speedway, and two former champions were eliminated Saturday night. Joey Logano became the first reigning champion eliminated in the first round when he crashed early in the third stage and finished 34th. He was watching as a spectator as former teammate...
Browns WR Amari Cooper leaves practice with groin injury, questionable for Steelers on Monday night
Cleveland Browns No. 1 wide receiver Amari Cooper injured his groin late in Saturday’s practice and is questionable for Monday night’s game at Pittsburgh. Coach Kevin Stefanski didn’t have much information on Cooper, who underwent surgery to repair a core muscle injury during the offseason. Cooper was on the field...
Martin Truex Jr. staring down elimination from NASCAR playoffs after winning regular season title
A shell-shocked Martin Truex Jr. has slumped into Bristol Motor Speedway fighting for his season. Truex won the regular-season title, but two bad races to open NASCAR’s playoffs has him on the brink of elimination headed into Saturday night’s race at Bristol, Tenn. The bottom four drivers in the 16-driver...
Deion Sanders makes most of Colorado State coach’s comments about sunglasses, hatVideo
BOULDER, Colo. — When Jay Norvell threw shade at Deion Sanders for wearing sunglasses during interviews, Coach Prime responded by handing out some of his signature shades. Sanders passed out pairs of Prime 21 sunglasses to his players during a team meeting — “I just want to see how y’all...
Colorado State coach pokes at Deion Sanders for wearing hat, sunglasses before game with ColoradoVideo
DENVER — Colorado State coach Jay Norvell just heated up the rivalry with No. 18 Colorado by poking at his counterpart Deion Sanders. On his coach’s show Wednesday night, Norvell made a reference to Sanders’ tendency to wear a hat along with sunglasses at news conferences and said that “when...
Next on the Tee: Kellie Stenzel, Hannah Leiner, Lisa Vlooswyk share golf stories, tips
It’s a special Girls Night Out edition of “Next on the Tee,” as host Chris Mascaro welcomes top 100 instructor Kellie Stenzel, co-host of the new Three Courses show on GolfNation.com Hannah Leiner, and eight-time Canadian Women’s World Long Drive Champion Lisa “Longball” Vlooswyk. Stenzel had a successful junior golf...
Former No. 1 tennis player Simona Halep gets 4-year ban in doping case
LONDON — Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been suspended from professional tennis for four years for doping violations, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Tuesday. The 31-year-old Romanian “committed intentional anti-doping rule violations ” by failing a drug test during the 2022 U.S. Open and for irregularities in...
Deion Sanders rapidly raising profile of No. 18 Colorado on and off the fieldVideo
BOULDER, Colo. — The turnaround for a Colorado team that went 1-11 last season is happening at lightning speed. Just don’t ask coach Deion Sanders about stopping to soak any of it in. He’s much too busy to fully wrap his mind around Boulder being the center of the college...
Conference pride is on the line this weekend with Big Ten matched against ACC in 6 gamesVideo
It was 1953 when the Big Ten and ACC first met in a nonconference football game, and it was a good one on a cloudy October afternoon in Durham, N.C. The ACC was an upstart conference in its first year and hoping Duke, its best team, would show up well...
Big 12 aims for 3-game sweep of mighty SEC after Longhorns’ win at AlabamaVideo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — You can bet the SEC is counting the days until Texas is playing with them rather than against them. In the first of three matchups between the heaviest of heavyweight conferences and the Big 12 spanning two weeks, the then-No. 11 Longhorns — soon to be...
Column: Kevin Kisner is trying to work his way back. He reached out to Steve Stricker for adviceVideo
Kevin Kisner is no stranger to bad golf. It was a struggle when he left a championship career behind at Georgia, taking four years through some of golf’s back roads to get on the PGA Tour. Even after he secured his tour card for the third time, his game felt...
Panel finds no single factor in horse deaths at Churchill Downs
Horse racing’s federally created oversight panel found no single cause of death among 12 horses at Churchill Downs this spring, but recommends further action and analysis to mitigate risk at the home of the Kentucky Derby, according to a report released Tuesday. The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) report...
LeBron James interested in assembling the Avengers, playing in the Paris Olympics
The medals had barely been hung on the necks of the German, Serbian and Canadian teams when word began to circulate about Team USA’s savior assembling an Avengers-style group of colleagues to fix American basketball in the upcoming Olympics. LeBron James, sources not authorized to speak publicly told The Times,...
Disney, Charter settle dispute hours before ‘Monday Night Football’
NEW YORK — If Aaron Rodgers has as much influence on the football field as he apparently had in ending a multibillion-dollar business dispute, the New York Jets will be very happy. The Walt Disney Co. and Charter Communications announced the resolution of their fight Monday, restoring ESPN to some...
Michigan St. coach Mel Tucker: Harassment allegations false
Suspended Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker said Monday that allegations of sexual harassment against him are “completely false,” and the intimate phone call he had with activist and rape survivor Brenda Tracy is outside the scope of both Title IX and school policy. In a two-page statement released by...
