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INDIANAPOLIS — The story of Sean Clifford and Tanner Morgan began on a seventh-grade football field. Their final scheduled matchup is Oct. 22 when Minnesota visits Penn State. In between, the two quarterbacks followed one another's journeys through high school and the recruiting process, the natural ups and downs of college football and the COVID-19 [...]
INDIANAPOLIS — Playing in the Rose Bowl was the pinnacle of a college football career for those who coached and played in the Big Ten for decades. The Rose Bowl's importance has been waning for years as college football's postseason evolved. The latest expansion by the Big Ten puts the future of the Pac-12, the [...]
CINCINNATI — The Bengals are already structuring finances so they can pay Joe Burrow enough money to stay in Cincinnati when the star quarterback becomes eligible to negotiate a new contract after this season, team owner Mike Brown said. Burrow likely will command a long-term deal paying him somewhere in the $40 million to $50 [...]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Blame it on lingering effects of the pandemic, resentment over the lockout or economic fears. Major League Baseball is struggling to fill the stands at pre-COVID levels as the sport heads into the last 2 1/2 months of its first season since 2019 without capacity restrictions. MLB reached the All-Star break with [...]
The NCAA has adequately addressed nine of 23 recommendations for creating comparable NCAA Tournament experiences for men's and women's basketball players, according to a progress report released last week. College sports' largest governing body hired a third party to evaluate its response to a scathing report issued almost a year ago that criticized gender inequality [...]
CHICAGO — Ben Kennedy is thinking big. As in big cities, big ideas and big plans. That's how NASCAR and Chicago got together. Kennedy played an instrumental role in NASCAR bringing an unprecedented street race to downtown Chicago next year during its 75th season in yet another radical change to its once staid schedule. "We [...]
LAS VEGAS — The NBA is coming off a massive financial year, with revenue topping $10 billion for the first time and basketball-related income reaching $8.9 billion, another record. League Commissioner Adam Silver said the numbers are particularly strong considering the league is still dealing with a pandemic, and it wasn't that long ago when [...]
COLUMBUS — Judging success and failure in NHL free agency just hours after the market opened can be tricky, looking into the future to predict which moves will pan out — or not. Looking back at the slew of signings, it seems relatively easy to identify at least one winner and a loser. The Columbus [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Baker Mayfield said he was "shocked" to learn that he was not included in the Cleveland Browns' future plans earlier this offseason. However, the No. 1 overall NFL draft pick in 2018 has had a few months now to digest the Browns' decision to replace him with Deshaun Watson and is eager [...]
HAMPTON, Ga. — Sure, it's been a wild NASCAR Cup season, with seemingly everyone in the field capable of taking the checkered flag. Through all the chaos, one driver has emerged as the clear favorite. Chase Elliott is the guy everyone else is chasing. The 26-year-old became the first three-time winner in the Cup series [...]