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The NCAA's changes to the National Invitation Tournament selection process this year were designed to preserve the viability of the once-storied event in the face of possible competition. By favoring teams from the Power Six conferences, the logic went, viewership would be up, revenue would be up and it would deal a blow to competing [...]
CLEVELAND — The Cavaliers are stepping up their off-court game. The NBA franchise unveiled renderings this week for a new world-class practice and high-tech training facility for the Cavs and public use in downtown that will further develop unused land on the Cuyahoga River and perhaps help lure free agents to Cleveland. Pending approval from [...]
The AL Central doesn't appear to be a great place to find baseball's best teams. Instead, it might be home to some of the most improved. The division had a tough 2023, with the Twins running away with the title despite an 87-win season that wouldn't have been good enough to win any other division [...]
CHICAGO — The St. Louis Cardinals signed Sonny Gray, Lance Lynn and Kyle Gibson. The Chicago Cubs added Shota Imanaga and Héctor Neris. Even the Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates jumped into free agency. There are no tanking teams in the NL Central right now, making for a wide-open landscape in a division that was [...]
The NFL competition committee is proposing a rule to penalize so-called "hip-drop" tackles and a radical change to kickoffs to add more returns without compromising safety. The proposals will be presented to owners at the league meetings later this month, with 24 out of 32 votes needed for approval. The committee didn't propose any rule [...]
CHICAGO — Chris Holtmann considered sitting out at least a year and working in media after Ohio State fired him last month. The opportunity to restore a once-proud program as DePaul's new coach was one he couldn't pass up, and he insisted he is ready for the challenge. "We've got a great opportunity," Holtmann said. [...]
Keith Dambrot didn't want to overstay his welcome. Didn't want his love of his chosen profession to morph into something far less joyous. The Duquesne coach was "80 percent sure" last summer that this season would be his last, a number that spiked to 100 percent when his wife, Donna, was diagnosed with breast cancer. [...]
Anyone watching the NCAA Tournament exclusively to get a closer look at the top prospects in the upcoming NBA draft is in for a disappointment. Only one of the top five players in last year's draft came directly from college, as the Charlotte Hornets took Alabama's Brandon Miller with the second overall pick. There are [...]
As Dartmouth men's basketball players move toward forming the first labor union in college sports, a majority of Americans say they are against college athletes unionizing — though younger respondents are more supportive. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that most adults, 55 percent, believe NCAA athletes should [...]
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Jody Mikhail was a sophomore at Pennsylvania's Cumberland Valley High School when a poster for a new girls' wrestling club caught her eye. So Mikhail, a senior now, tried the sport. "I fell in love with it the first time," she said. Unlike previous generations, she's hardly alone. Girls' wrestling has [...]