The ACC became the latest truly national college sports conference Friday with its additions of Stanford, Cal and SMU. And while the league’s spanning from California to Boston may have been the right move from a pure survivalist perspective, it does come at a cost: weakening further what used to be one of the best men’s college basketball products around.
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Joe Montana responded to Jimmy Garoppolo’s comments about how the 49ers have handled quarterbacks in the past.
It may only be Week 1, but the UConn football team may have already taken the crown for “Worst Trick Play of the Season” following a rough sequence against NC State Thursday night.
Facing first-and-10 from their own 36-yard line in the third quarter, Huskies quarterback Joseph Fagnano tossed a lateral pass to receiver James Burns in the backfield. Burns then swiftly attempted his own lateral to running back Brian Brewton, except the teammates’ synergy seemed out of whack as the two collided mid-play.
The former NFL receiver bought into the Albany Empire, an arena football team, in March. Three months later, the team was kicked out of the league.
If you were an NFL player in the ’80s and ’90s, Bill Parcells was a good guy to have in your corner. Turns out, though, that’s still true — even decades after you retire from football.
New York-based sportswriter Gary Myers revealed that the Hall of Fame coach has become a financial lifeline to his former players who have fallen on hard times.
On WFAN’s “Morning Show with Boomer & Gio” Friday, Myers teased his new book about the Super Bowl-winning 1986 Giants, who were led by Parcells.
OnCore Golf, based in Buffalo, is a direct-to-consumer business that makes tour-quality golf balls for all golfers. Amazingly, it plans to release an innovative GENiUS ball with built-in electronics to capture all of the ball’s data and send it, via Bluetooth, to a nearby smart device.
By Rob Sauerhaft
Who doesn’t love rooting for the underdog? Heck, we nearly had a story for the ages during this year’s major in Rochester, NY—a head pro at a daily-fee course was THIS close to etching his name in the annals of golf.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is introducing a new bill aimed at alleviating some of the existential threats to college athletics, many of which are brought on by NIL
Cruz announced the bill in a piece published in the Austin American-Statesman.
“College sports are a cultural unifier, and they are bigger and better in Texas,” the Republican senator wrote on social media.
“My bill codifying name, image, and likeness rights for college athletes preserves college sports by promoting self-governance and limiting federal involvement in the issue.
Europe captain Luke Donald has been warned that he would be threatening the integrity of the qualifying system if he picks Ludvig Aberg for the Ryder Cup later this month.
There’s nothing like watching a good knuckleball floating through the air on a warm summer night. With all the triple-digit heaters being thrown these days, there’s just something beautiful about a knuckleball barely spinning as it heads to home plate.
And you know what? Thanks to San Diego Padres pitcher Matt Waldron we can all sit back and experience just that thanks to this beautiful pitch he threw in Thursday night’s loss at home to the San Francisco Giants.
Dalton Del Don tries to help you navigate the running back landscape by identifying potential fantasy draft busts.