Northwestern president Michael Schill said the two external reviews are needed to ensure “appropriate accountability for the athletic department.
Author: Michael
HOYLAKE, England — Royal Liverpool and Open flags flutter in the breeze in front of the clubhouse ahead of The 151st Open Championship on July 16, 2023. | Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images
Holes 15 through 18 at Royal Liverpool feature a pair of par-5s and a brand new par-3 as The Open will be decided within this stretch.
The Open Championship returns to Royal Liverpool in England this week, a course situated on subtle sandhills that overlook the Irish Sea.
NASHVILLE—If Kirby Smart were as serious about discouraging dangerous driving as he is eradicating complacency, Georgia’s football offseason would have been more pleasant and less newsworthy.
The coach of the two-time national champion Bulldogs used the word “complacency” six times on the podium at Southeastern Conference media days Tuesday. He sounded as concerned about it as Joseph McCarthy was communism. Scary stuff.
“The threat for us is complacency,” Smart said. “The first thing you have to do is acknowledge that it’s a threat.
The news that Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson was headed to the 10-day injured list with a calf strain last weekend felt almost merciful.
Such has been the nature of Donaldson’s season—a dreadful few months, interrupted in the spring by a hamstring injury, making for easily the worst stretch of his career. The numbers speak for themselves. The veteran is hitting .142. (The Mendoza Line is but a hazy glimmer on the horizon.) While he’s shown his typical power—10 home runs in 34 games—he’s offered almost nothing else.
A Division-III college in New York unveiled its first new stadium playing surface since 2006 on Tuesday. It is going to make the players’ lives absolute hell during the summer and into the fall.
The turf is black!
Not just the end-zones. Not just the hashmarks. No.
Just like the Smurf Turf at Boise State is entirely blue, SUNY Morrisville’s new field is entirely black.
In Miles Bridges’s first public comments since signing a one-year deal to return to the Hornets, the NBA veteran apologized to fans and teammates for the “pain” and “embarrassment” he caused due to an domestic violence incident.
Bridges, who was selected in the first round of the 2018 NBA draft, thanked the Hornets for giving him a “second chance,” and said he plans to be someone that his “family and everyone can be proud of” going forward.
Welcome to the 16th installment of a weekly mailbag that I will be writing about the world of sports media (and anything else you want to chime in on). Please email me any questions you have to Jimmy.Traina@si.com or send them via Twitter.
With Stephen Curry’s doc debuting on AppleTV on Friday what are your top 5 sports docs all-time?
— JDPComm (@JDPComm) July 17, 2023
Off the top of head, without any research, these would be my five favorites, no particular order:
The U, 30 for 30: The best 30 for 30 of all time, on the truly wild Miami Hurricanes teams of the ’80s.
The player-friendly NBA allowed Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges to stay on the team amid serious domestic violence allegations.
Bridges, who sat out the 2022-23 season, appeared alongside GM Mitch Kupchak on Tuesday for a media session. He apologized and thanked the organization for giving him a second chance.
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In June 2022, Miles Bridges was arrested for felony domestic violence; he was released on $130,000 bond.
The Kansas City Chief reported to camp, and their head coach talked about how he spends his time off
If you bump into Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid during the offseason, odds are low that the head coach will have his eyes trained on the latest crime thriller, the newest sci-fi series, or even a magazine.
Instead, he’ll have his eyes on a playbook.
The Chiefs are one of the first teams reporting to training camp, and both Reid and quarterback Patrick Mahomes met with the media on Tuesday.
Cross the border into Germany from Austria on Bundesstraße 307, an alpine highway, and you will happen upon the tiny town of Rottach-Egern. It’s barely a dot on the Bavarian map, with a population just over 5,000, but like many small German towns it has a soccer team.
On Tuesday, that soccer team happened upon a much bigger town’s soccer team— Munich’s.
Bayern Munich defeated Rottach-Egern 27–0 in a friendly match, taking an 18–0 lead at halftime and never letting up in the intrastate contest.