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The first week of joint practices at NFL training camps included one player getting carted off the field and two teams getting fined $200,000 each for excessive fighting. Those events have lent credence to the notion that joint practice sessions don't need to last longer than one day, an idea growing in popularity. After nearly [...]
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 [...]