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If the latest spasm of conference realignment in college sports was supposed to spell doom for the Big 12 or Pac-12 — or for any other conference, for that matter — somebody forgot to tell the basketball coaches. In college hoops, where virtually all success is measured by how a team, or conference, fares in [...]
Armando Bacot didn't bolt early from North Carolina after a memorable run to the NCAA championship game to chase a professional playing career. Neither did Gonzaga's Drew Timme, an all-American star of one of the nation's top programs. No, business is already good for men's and women's college basketball players able to cash in on [...]
CLEVELAND — Deshaun Watson's arrival in March brought expectations, scrutiny and distractions to Cleveland. It changed everything about the Browns. So did his 11-game suspension. Once they learned their newly acquired franchise quarterback would miss the first two months after Watson settled with the NFL following sexual misconduct allegations, the Browns were forced to be [...]
CLEVELAND — Amari Cooper has been everything the Cleveland Browns hoped, providing leadership and high-quality play from the moment he arrived via trade from Dallas. He has been a standard of unquestioned excellence. Except for about eight seconds. At least Cooper was able to laugh after his first pass in the NFL was intercepted when [...]
MARYVILLE, Mo. — There is growing fear among college basketball coaches at the lower levels of the sport, the vast majority of which do not make seven-figure salaries, fly around the country in private jets or hang out with rich and famous boosters and fans. It's a fear that comes with success. It only takes [...]
DOHA, Qatar — Where to sleep? It's among the biggest questions facing fans traveling to tiny Qatar for the World Cup amid a feverish rush for rooms in Doha. Some will sleep on cruise ships. Others will camp in the desert. Others will fly in from Dubai and elsewhere. In the run-up to the world's [...]
Virginia hasn’t won an NCAA Tournament game since its 2019 national title and failed to even make the field last season. The return of five starters should enable the Cavaliers to change that trend. “This probably is the oldest team maybe that I’ve had,” coach Tony Bennett said as he enters his 14th season at [...]
MINNEAPOLIS — The Big Ten's 2023 football schedule caused a big gulp for Gophers fans when it was finally unveiled last week. The three crossover games against East Division foes assigned to Minnesota next fall? Michigan and Michigan State at home. Ohio State on the road. That'll be quite the test for the Gophers, who [...]
Arguments over conference supremacy have begun well before the start of the college basketball season. Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim offered one of the most quotable remarks of the preseason when he pointed out the Big Ten's failings in the postseason. "At the end of the day, you play for the tournament," Boeheim said. "That's what [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans' proposed domed stadium would seat approximately 60,000 people and cover 1.7 million square feet under renderings the team recently released. The renderings follow the announcement that the Titans had reached an agreement with the Nashville mayor for local funding. That final piece of $760 million in bonds still [...]