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CLEVELAND — The Browns appear poised to move out of their lakefront home. While they're considering a $1.1 billion plan from the city of Cleveland to renovate their 25-year-old downtown stadium, the NFL team made it clear last week that its preference is to build a $2.4 billion dome in Brook Park. In a letter [...]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The debate about whether the NFL will expand the regular season once again seems to have been resolved and now it's a matter of how soon the league adds an 18th game. Commissioner Roger Goodell has talked openly about it, union chief Lloyd Howell recently told the Washington Post that the [...]
SAINT-DENIS, France — This time at the Olympics, hammer thrower Annette Nneka Echikunwoke got to compete. Not only compete, but win a medal — for the United States. Three years ago, Echikunwoke arrived at the Tokyo Games ready to represent Nigeria, but she wound up needing to leave before even getting to take a throw. [...]
IRVINE, Calif. — New Orleans Saints special teams coach Darren Rizzi said he felt like a real estate agent during the early days of training camp, urging kickers to scrap their long-held, deep-ball approach to kickoffs and focus instead on "location, location, location." "You've got to get the old mentality out of your heads," Rizzi [...]
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Bobby Kersee was in a taxi to the airport the night his current protégé, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, broke the world record in the 400-meter hurdles at the U.S. Olympic trials. “I haven’t seen one of Sydney’s world records live yet,” Kersee said. Once his athletes step on the track, Kersee considers his [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio State football team is nearly a week into a training camp that’s under the usual towering expectations, but also a heavy sense of urgency built up over the three consecutive seasons blown up by losses to Michigan. The Buckeyes finished 11-2 in each of those campaigns but failed each time [...]
PARIS (AP) — More than 100 conflicts fester around the world. The Middle East teeters on the brink of a regional war. In Ukraine, Russia advances slowly but steadily in the east, reducing towns to rubble. The "Olympic Truce," clearly, is not being heeded. In the run-up to every Olympics over the past 30 years, [...]
DENVER — About the only time Randy Gradishar ever disappointed his teammates was when he first arrived in Denver as the Broncos' first-round draft pick in 1974. Eagerly awaiting the arrival of the man Ohio State coach Woody Hayes called "the best linebacker I ever coached," were members of the budding "Orange Crush" ensemble that [...]
The 2020 quarterback draft class is well on its way to being the highest-paid group of QBs from any draft in NFL history. The quintet of quarterbacks taken in the top two rounds four years ago also has a chance at being the most prolific. With Tua Tagovailoa and Jordan Love being the final two [...]
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Deshaun Watson has shifted into self-protection mode. Cleveland’s contentious quarterback, who has played just 12 games the past two seasons due to an NFL suspension followed by a shoulder fracture that required major surgery, says that he’s worked on a new approach as he enters a critical Year 3 with [...]