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Syracuse's Dino Babers speaks about racial justice after team moves him Syracuse's Dino Babers is one of just 14 black head coaches at the FBS level, but he was also among the last coaches in the country to offer a statement on the protests for racial justice after George Floyd was killed in police custody in Minneapolis last month.
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How a conversation after a bowl game loss ignited a uniform revolution It's New Year's Day in Dallas, Texas and the Oregon Ducks just finished playing Colorado in the 1996 Cotton Bowl. The year prior, the Ducks were in the Rose Bowl against Penn State. They were blown out in both games. After decades of irrelevance, most ...
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2020 NBA Mock Draft: Warriors want Anthony Edwards at No. 1, LaMelo Ball goes No. 2 Welcome to the NBA Draft process, version 2.0. After the first iteration was effectively put on ice in response to the pandemic's tightening grip, the NBA this last week announced it has adjusted its timeline with new dates for a draft lottery and a draft. It has also ...
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Wisconsin's Dana Rettke Announced as Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year Earlier this week, Wisconsin named Dana Rettke as one of its two athletes of the year. Now she can add a conference accolade to an already impressive resume. The Big Ten announced on Thursday that Rettke received its female athlete of the year honor.
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Three moves the Raiders can make to become Super Bowl contenders in 2020 The Las Vegas Raiders are entering a new era in a new city with a new stadium. There's reason to be optimistic for this team heading into 2020, as they have plenty of young talent on both sides of the ball with star potential. While Jon Gruden's squad finished ...
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Vikings Have All the Leverage in Dalvin Cook Holdout The last thing an NFL team with Super Bowl aspirations wants is offseason drama—especially in a year when every franchise has all of that they can handle. Unfortunately, that's just what the Minnesota Vikings face in the form of a threatened holdout from ...
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Meyer, Mullen: Florida Gators QB Tim Tebow the Best CFB Player of All Time Urban Meyer and Dan Mullen let the takes fly on Wednesday evening. The former and current Florida Gators head coaches joined CBS Sports on Wednesday, with host Jamie Erdahl and former Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, to discuss multiple topics that ...
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NFL Reportedly Cancels In-Person Minicamps; Extends Virtual Offseason The NFL reportedly informed teams Thursday they won't be allowed to hold in-person minicamps in June and extended the virtual offseason program through at least June 26. Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network reported further details about the league's plans ...
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Orioles' GM Mike Elias ends day one of MLB Draft with two 'dominant' college players Mike Elias' first night of the MLB Draft was at least, by all accounts, a surprise. What wasn't a surprise, however, was the confidence of Elias as it related to Heston Kjerstad and Jordan Westburg. He referred to the pair of SEC hitters as "dominant" college ...
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NHL plans to open training camps for season restart July 10 The National Hockey League and the NHL Players Association have announced that formal training camps for the 24 teams resuming play will begin on Friday, July 10, if conditions allow it. The league and its players are currently in Phase 2 of their "return to ...
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How the First US Sports Leagues Back Plan to Handle the National Anthem NWSL and MLS are in a unique position, in that they stand to become the first major professional sports leagues that return to action in the United States since the coronavirus pandemic shut everything down. The NWSL will be first, with a Challenge Cup ...
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Two Vanderbilt Baseball Commits Taken In MLB Draft First-Round The first round of the Major League Baseball Draft is in the books, and it was a good night for Vanderbilt with former standout Austin Martin being selected No. 5 overall by the Toronto Blue Jays. Martin, who many ranked as the best overall player in this draft ...
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Barcelona star De Jong relishes return of La Liga title race Madrid (AFP) - "What you have to understand is I really, really like football," says Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong. "It's not pretend. I enjoy every minute of it." De Jong's first touch at the Camp Nou came between a thumbs up and a smile. As he juggled ...
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Shams: Jrue Holiday Told Pelicans He Didn't Want Trade Before 2020 Deadline New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday reportedly told the team's front office he didn't want to get moved before the 2020 NBA trade deadline in February. Shams Charania of Stadium and The Athletic reported details Tuesday on Complex's Load ...
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Columbus to Host 2020 TBT at Nationwide Arena COLUMBUS, Ohio – Defending champion Carmen's Crew of The Basketball Tournament (TBT) gets to stay close to home in an attempt to repeat, as the 2020 event will now officially be hosted at Nationwide Arena spanning July 4-14, announced Thursday ...
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Mass. Rep. Joe Kennedy Calls For Patriots to Sign QB Colin Kaepernick Massachusetts congressman Joe Kennedy made an endorsement earlier this week in regards to the state's professional football team, the New England Patriots. "The NFL should apologize to Colin Kaepernick and the Patriots should sign him," Kennedy ...
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Mike Norris Remembers Athletics' Claudell Washington as a Great Player and a Great Friend Claudell Washington, the Berkeley High non-baseball player who nonetheless debuted with the A's at the age of 19 in 1974 and went on to spend 17 years in the Major Leagues, died Tuesday at the age of 65 in Pittsburg, Calif. The cause of death was not ...
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Liverpool step up restart progress, hammer Blackburn in friendly Liverpool do not look like they will be slowing down when the Premier League restart arrives as they hammered Blackburn Rovers 6-0 in a friendly at Anfield. Jurgen Klopp's side — who lead the Premier League by 25 points in case you've been living under a ...
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Starting Nine: Millwood, Giles and Braves' hidden gems taken after fifth round With just five rounds and 160 players selected, this MLB draft has a very different look in the era of the Coronavirus pandemic. While the aftermath will be a free-for-all to sign undrafted players at $20,000 each, there's the reality that with fewer guaranteed ...
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'Long Gone Summer' director wants fans to remember good times with Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa Baseball fans know what happened after the great home-run race of 1998. They remember the revelations of the rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs and the shameful Congressional hearing. They remember the black eye the sport suffered just ...
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Promoter behind Fury-Joshua deal provokes outrage in Ireland DUBLIN (AP) — The boxing promoter helping to arrange the all-British heavyweight fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua is the subject of dialogue between authorities in Ireland and the United Arab Emirates because of his links to organized crime.
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Theo Epstein helped MLB initiate a drive to donate more than $1M to 5 organizations that support Black Lives Matter Theo Epstein's mission to enhance diversity expands beyond his commitment to the Chicago Cubs. Epstein is playing an active role in Major League Baseball's initiative to donate more than $1 million to groups supporting Black Lives Matter, including the ...
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G League Pipeline Gives Celtics Potential Advantage During NBA's Return As the NBA inches closer to its return, teams are preparing for the potential need of replacing players lost due to injury or quarantine. Possible replacement options reportedly will be G Leaguers, any player who was on an NBA roster this season or 2019 ...
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Kevin Stefanski disappointed there won't be joint practices this summer Kevin Stefanski has had to do quite a bit of adapting during his first offseason as the Browns head coach and that will continue into the summer. The Browns were set to practice with the Packers during training camp, but the NFL announced last week that joint ...
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The whole deal with Emerson Hancock's fastball Emerson Hancock is the highest-picked pitching prospect the Mariners have snagged in nearly a decade, and he is a doozy. Logan Gilbert and George Kirby have a multitude of exceptional characteristics, to say nothing of the many pitchers behind them in ...
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After difficult 2019 season, Bears linebacker Roquan Smith 'in a great place' Despite an uneven second NFL season in which he missed one game for personal reasons and the last three with a torn pectoral muscle, linebacker Roquan Smith's career arc is pretty well-defined. When he has been right, he has looked like a star who is ...
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Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella no longer against protests during anthem As Colin Kaepernick began his kneeling protest in 2016, World Cup of Hockey coach John Tortorella said he would bench any Team USA player who didn't stand during the national anthem. Four years later, the Columbus Blue Jackets' head coach has ...
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Texans' Justin Reid wants proper narrative on anthem kneeling Justin Reid has witnessed this moment before, and it's painfully familiar to the Texans' veteran safety. When Reid was attending Stanford in 2016, he watched as San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his older brother, Eric Reid, knelt in ...
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CJ Mosley appreciates Christopher Johnson saying he's there to help The Jets have been having the same conversations about racial inequality and police brutality as other teams around the league in recent team meetings and team CEO Christopher Johnson has been part of those discussions. Johnson is running the team ...
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'Disrespected' Alexander Volkanovski ready to send message to critics at UFC 251 UFC Featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski has promised to send a message to the critics in his title rematch with Max Holloway, guaranteeing he will put him away inside five rounds when they face off on Fight Island. Volkanovski, 31, is back into ...
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One NFL analyst thinks the Patriots' Jarrett Stidham more talented than Tua Tagovailoa There's a burgeoning youth movement happening in the AFC East at the quarterback position. Half of the teams already have guaranteed starters who are under the age of 24 in Sam Darnold (New York Jets) and Josh Allen (Buffalo Bills). As for the New ...
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USC's Will Muschamp leads football team in Black Lives Matter march There were two main topics of engagement for University of South Carolina football coach Will Muschamp while growing up under the tutelage of his father. Larry Muschamp, who died at 79 six years ago, was a history teacher, and that helped provide some ...
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Top soccer players need a pay cap to help England's clubs survive pandemic pressure, says Deloitte Soccer matches around the world had been postponed during the coronavirus pandemic but some leagues are starting to resume. Collectively Deloitte projected revenues for Europe's top-flight clubs to fall to 15.1 billion euros because of Covid-19, down from ...
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Bills Today | Current and former Bills join the Players Coalition for this initiative 1. Current and former Bills urge Congress to end qualified immunity. Players, coaches and front office representatives from across the professional sports landscape joined forces under the umbrella of the Players Coalition to sign a petition urging Congress to ...
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Chicago White Sox: A look at the AL Central's first round The Chicago White Sox and the rest of the A.L. Central could be very impacted by the results of this first round of the 2020 MLB Draft. The 2020 MLB Draft was a success in the first round on Wednesday night. The Chicago White Sox and the rest of the league ...
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Austin Martin Falls To Blue Jays At Fifth Overall The first real surprise of the night came when the Orioles passed on Vanderbilt star Austin Martin, the No. 2 player in the BA 500, in favor of Arkansas outfielder Heston Kjerstad. Martin's slide did not stop there, as two more teams passed on him before he was ...
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Athletes should have right to protest on political issues - New Zealand Olympic Association The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) has told its athletes they should speak openly about social and political issues, especially those involving racism, as calls to change rules restricting protest at the Olympics grows louder. Several major sports ...
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Swanson named CoSIDA Academic All-American NATCHITOCHES – Kyle Swanson ended the on-field portion of Northwestern State career tied for seventh in school history in career saves. His off-the-field resume concluded Thursday with another entry – third-team CoSIDA Academic All-American.
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West Allegheny's Austin Hendrick selected in first round by Cincinnati Reds West Allegheny High School senior Austin Hendrick played some all-star showcase games last summer for a team that was coached by a few Cincinnati Reds scouts. Soon, Hendrick will be playing for the Reds organization for real. The Reds selected ...
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Pakistan's Sohail and Amir withdraw from England tour ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan batsman Haris Sohail and fast bowler Mohammad Amir have pulled out of the England cricket tour. Sohail did so for family reasons, while Amir wants to be at the birth of his second child in August, the Pakistan Cricket Board said ...
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Ovie Soko, Sky Sports NBA analyst The Dallas Mavericks, shaped by a European style of play driven by superstar duo Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis, are 'on the border' of something special, says Sky Sports NBA analyst Ovie Soko. Follow Ovie on Twitter · Follow Ovie on Instagram ...
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