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New Columbus Blue Jackets coach Mike Babcock said this week he had done nothing wrong in asking players to show him photos off their phones, clarifying he was trying to get to know them after a report emerged criticizing him for invasion of privacy. Paul Bissonnette said on the “Spittin' Chiclets” podcast he was told [...]
CLEVELAND — The Browns' most significant acquisition this offseason wasn't on the field for a single snap in Sunday's season-opening win over Cincinnati. Jim Schwartz received a game ball. Cleveland's new defensive coordinator designed a plan that overwhelmed quarterback Joe Burrow and the Bengals, who managed just 142 total yards and six first downs in [...]
MADISON, Wis. — The Big Ten's westward expansion could challenge the league's reputation for smashmouth football. No Power Five conference has tended to rely more on defense and the running game than the Big Ten. The arrival of Southern California, UCLA, Oregon and Washington next year just might change that. "It'll be a fun mix [...]
One No. 12 started the clock on the countdown to his gold jacket and another switched numbers, conferences and shades of green. The biggest storyline in the first NFL season this century without Tom Brady centers on Aaron Rodgers' quest to turn the New York Jets into a championship contender. The 39-year-old, four-time NFL MVP [...]
Deshaun Watson's impact on the AFC North has been negligible. He hasn't had time to really make a dent. The Browns are counting on that changing. Cleveland's polarizing quarterback heads into his first full season inside perhaps the NFL's most competitive and balanced division after serving an 11-game suspension in 2022 for violating the league's [...]
BEREA — Marquise Goodwin never allowed himself to consider the alternative, that his football career might be over. Not for a single second. Diagnosed with blood clots in his legs and lungs at the start of his first training camp with Cleveland, the speedy wide receiver had faith he would play again. "No doubt in [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals have unveiled plans for two dramatically different locations for a replacement to the aging Kauffman Stadium, calling them on equal footing even as the team-issued date for a decision looms next month. The first location, called the East Village, would consist of a ballpark anchoring a 27-acre [...]
The NCAA rule change that drew the most notice in the offseason might go mostly unnoticed by fans this season. For the first season since 1967, the clock will continue to run, as it does in the NFL, when a team makes a first down on a play that ends inbounds rather than stopping until [...]
Welcome to the final season of college football as we know it. Extreme? Maybe, but 2023 has an end-of-an-era feel. Texas and Oklahoma are taking their last lap in the Big 12. The Pac-12 is still a Power Five conference. Will it even be a conference in 2024 after the Big Ten opens its West [...]
If the Big Ten's final season with a 14-team, two-division setup plays out the way it has since the conference expanded in 2014, an East team will win the championship and it will be Michigan or Ohio State. The preseason No. 2 Wolverines and No. 3 Buckeyes have flip-flopped as the team to beat now [...]