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The fans are back, the crowds are loud, but home-field advantage still isn't a factor early this NFL season. Road teams won 33 of the 64 games over the first four weeks, extending a trend that began in 2019 and continued through the pandemic-impacted 2020 season when games were played with few, if any, fans. [...]
The Big Ten is set up to be the most interesting conference in the country over the final two months of the season. The latest AP Top 25 has five Big Ten teams ranked among the top 11. The fun starts Saturday when No. 4 Penn State visits No. 3 Iowa. It will be the [...]
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Owen Power stood in a sea of maize-clad fans pumping pompoms and cheering on Michigan's football team in a win over Washington this fall. Power is 6-foot-5 and has some notoriety as the No. 1 overall pick in the NHL draft, but he blended right in with his fellow students [...]
Marc-Andre Fleury was the face of the Golden Knights franchise, won the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's best goaltender and received assurances from Vegas owner Bill Foley that he'd retire there. So, naturally, he was surprised to find out he'd been traded to Chicago. "I know I don't have many years left," the 36-year-old Fleury [...]
College athletes who earn millions for their schools are employees, the National Labor Relations Board's top lawyer said in guidance released Wednesday that would allow players at private universities to unionize and negotiate over their working conditions. NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo also threatened action against schools, conferences and the NCAA if they continue to [...]
COLUMBUS — Brad Larsen had a ringside seat as the Columbus Blue Jackets tanked down the stretch last season. He watched how players conducted themselves when the going got tough. Larsen, then an assistant under coach John Tortorella, was in a good position to judge character as the losses piled up and the team sold [...]
CLEVELAND — Kevin Love is ready to put a difficult season for himself and the Cleveland Cavaliers behind him. The Cavaliers finished with a 22-50 record last season and are attempting to build around a group of young players acquired in the draft or trades. Love played in only 25 games last season because of [...]
CLEVELAND — All kinds of emotions enwrapped Odell Beckham Jr. from the moment he sprinted out of the tunnel to a roaring ovation. A few hours later, he had nothing left. "Exhausted," Beckham said, sliding into a chair for his postgame news conference. "I lost my voice and I wasn't even screaming, so I don't [...]
In this era of racial reckoning, it's not only appropriate but significant that the stories of NFL trailblazers be told. Keyshawn Johnson, the 1996 top overall draft pick by the New York Jets and now a host of ESPN's morning program "Keyshawn, JWill and Max,” has done so. Collaborating with Bob Glauber, the Newsday columnist [...]
TORONTO (AP) — It's nearing the end of a long day of promotional on-ice videos and lengthy interviews with one group of reporters after another, when Pierre-Luc Dubois strides confidently into the hotel conference room with a beaming smile and outreached hand. Whatever lingering frustrations and disappointments the Jets forward might carry from what was [...]