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INGLEWOOD, Calif. — As college football tries to navigate unprecedented upheaval, the status quo holds with the College Football Playoff that crowns its national champion. The playoff is likely to stick with the current four-team format through the end of its contract. It has no plans to engage players on name, image and likeness rights. [...]
HOUSTON — While Deshaun Watson's NFL career has resumed with the Cleveland Browns after grand juries declined to indict him on any criminal charges over sexual misconduct allegations, his legal problems remain far from over. Lawsuits filed in Houston by 22 women who have accused him of sexual assault and harassment remain unresolved, with no [...]
MADISON, Wis. — During an offseason in which more than one out of every five Football Bowl Subdivision programs changed head coaches, the Big Ten was the lone conference that didn't see a single move. But that doesn't mean the league stood pat. While all 14 Big Ten members returned their head coaches from last [...]
INDIANAPOLIS — Josh Paschal and Haskell Garrett count themselves among the lucky ones. They understand only a tiny fraction of football players get a chance to play in the NFL, and even fewer overcome frightening experiences like theirs to become legitimate draft prospects. Yet here they are, days away from making their dream careers a [...]
CLEVELAND — The mood in the Cavaliers' locker room alternated between disbelief and delight in the raw moments following their play-in loss to Atlanta. Pain mixed with pride. And as Cleveland's players — many of them with zero postseason experience — reflected on falling short of the playoffs after all they endured over the past [...]
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Nearly 50 years after Congress passed Title IX to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in “any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance,” including high school athletics, some girls are stuck in an imperfect system that continues to favor boys. In schools across the country, boys’ teams [...]
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Prior to his first spring practice as Notre Dame head coach, Marcus Freeman didn't mince his words to his Fighting Irish. "I kind of told them in the team meeting, I have a vision and identity I want for our team," Freeman recalled. "And that's to be a team that can [...]
PHOENIX — Connor Dawson is a psychologist, gatekeeper, analyst and strategist. And a hitting coach, too. Tough job. "There's just so much out there for one guy to handle now that wasn't the case 20 years ago," Dawson said. The 28-year-old Dawson is one of two new hitting coaches for the Milwaukee Brewers, hired along [...]
INDIANAPOLIS — Thad Matta's first head coaching tenure at Butler lasted one season. This time, he hopes to stick around a little longer — with a familiar script that helped the Bulldogs reach unprecedented heights in the decade following his departure. Last week, more than 20 years after Matta left his alma mater, the 54-year-old [...]
HOUSTON (AP) — Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson must say whether he had sex with 18 massage therapists who supported him last year following criminal complaints, a judge in Texas ruled this week. USA Today reported that Watson has 30 days to comply. He previously would not address his past with the therapists. Watson also [...]