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The looming athlete pay system that will upend the traditional college sports model and still-to-be-determined details about how millions of dollars will be distributed are certain to bring questions about gender equity. Of special interest will be whether schools must comply with Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in any school or [...]
PITTSBURGH — Justin Fields could sense his time in Chicago was up at his exit meeting in January. While Bears General Manager Ryan Poles didn't outright tell Fields the organization was going to look for another quarterback after three uneven seasons with the talented but inconsistent Fields running the offense, Poles didn't have to. Fields [...]
No matter which team wins the Stanley Cup championship this year it will be a first this century. The Dallas Stars won the franchise's lone championship in 1999, months before the world worried computers would malfunction at the start of a new millennium. The New York Rangers haven't done it since their magical run in [...]
LeBron James will turn 40 in December. Stephen Curry is 36. Kevin Durant will turn 36 and Jimmy Butler will turn 35 by the time training camps start in the fall. They have been stars of the playoffs for years, players who come up biggest at the biggest times. Not this year, however. The next [...]
INDIANAPOLIS — For more than a month, Will Power has all but guaranteed that Team Penske would win the pole for the Indianapolis 500. When the team was caught in a cheating scandal, it was messaging Roger Penske really wanted his driver to tamp down. The team was dealing with the disqualification of Josef Newgarden [...]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars and the city of Jacksonville have agreed to a $1.4 billion "stadium of the future" that would keep the franchise in one of the NFL's smallest markets for another 30 years. The proposal calls for each side to contribute $625 million to the $1.25 billion project. Jacksonville, which [...]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Kyle Larson's parents took a swing by the Arrow McLaren merchandise truck at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and quickly alerted their superstar son to a potential problem. "They were like, 'Man, if I was your teammates I'd be pretty pissed because it's basically all you,'" Larson said last week. Larson is the star [...]
It was untreated anxiety and depression that Colorado Avalanche defenseman Samuel Girard blamed for his alcohol abuse, a problem that reached the point where he needed to step away from hockey. He made a decision to leave the Avalanche and enter the NHL/NHLPA player assistance program earlier this season. Girard returned to practice a month [...]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Preakness days in recent years have featured water and plumbing miscues. A large section of the grandstand at Pimlico Race Course has been rendered unusable because it’s condemned, and much of the rest of the storied but decaying track is a relic to the sport of king’s heyday many yesteryears ago. The [...]
DARLINGTON, S.C. — The first half of NASCAR’s regular season wrapped with a satisfying, drought-busting win by past champion Brad Keselowski at Darlington Raceway. Keselowski, in his third full season as a driver-owner at Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing, locked himself into the playoffs and marked himself as a title contender for the fall. There are [...]