Longtime Iowa athletic director Gary Barta is set to retire effective Aug. 1, according to Friday morning reports from Scott Dochterman of The Athletic and Pete Thamel of ESPN.
The reports subsequently were confirmed by the school’s athletic department.
The 59-year-old Barta has served as Iowa’s AD since 2006 and spent two years as chairman of the College Football Playoff committee. In addition, Barta and Hawkeyes football coach Kirk Ferentz currently rank as the nation’s longest-serving athletic director-football coach combination at one school.
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Nike released Ja Morant’s new Ja 1 “Hunger” sneakers on the SNKRS app Thursday, and the shoes sold out within 20 minutes of the launch. The release comes as the Grizzlies star serves an indefinite suspension after he displayed a gun on Instagram Live, his second such suspension in recent months.
This is Morant’s second Nike shoe, as the first Ja 1s were announced in December and released in February.
After Morant flashed a gun in a Colorado nightclub during an Instagram Live stream in March, Nike released a statement supporting Morant’s decision to work on himself.
Fantasy football draft season is just around the corner! Over the last few years, managers who’ve put a greater emphasis on grabbing rookies in their drafts have been rewarded with late-round bargains like Isiah Pacheco, Elijah Mitchell or James Robinson. Of course, a big part of that success is picking the right players in the right situations with their respective NFL franchises.
Also, the reality of this fantasy situation is that there are far more disappointments than rookies who blow up in the stat sheets.
The effect of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s ownership of Wrexham has been incalculable. The small Welsh club has become an international household name since Reynolds and McElhenney announced their ownership in 2020, and now they’ve done something that hasn’t been done in the 158 year history of the club.
The Racecourse Ground, Wrexham’s 10,000 seat home, will have a corporate sponsor for the first time.
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The teams are back on the track for the second practice session ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix
The teams are headed back to the grid for the second free practice session in advance of the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix, hoping to apply the lessons learned in the first practice earlier on Friday.
That session saw Carlos Sainz Jr. of Ferrari lead the way, followed by Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton.
Curt Schilling should be at the forefront as the Celtics try to channel the 2004 Red Sox, but his toxic use of his platform has made it impossible for that to happen, writes John Tomase.
The Nuggets’ series-clinching win over the Lakers in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals Monday came down to the wire, as Nikola Jokić scored the game-winning basket with under a minute left. However, it appears as if those points shouldn’t have counted.
Jokić’s tiebreaking basket was scored after Denver was awarded possession of the ball by officials who ruled the Lakers had touched the ball last before it went out of bounds.
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A major snag coud lead to another rebranding.
The process of rebranding the Washington Commanders took years. Now a huge snag could pressure the team to rebrand once again,
This week the Commanders were denied their federal trademark application by the United States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO), which could force the team’s hand at either moving forward without trademark protection — which would be a death knell in terms of merchandising.
Broncos running back Javonte Williams started out strong in his second year in the NFL last season before suffering a devastating knee injury in Week 4.
Williams tore his ACL, LCL and PLC (posterolateral corner) in his right knee, which not only ended his season, but led many observers to wonder if he could return by the start of the 2023 season.
Denver has become increasingly hopeful that he could be ready by Week 1, as Williams was able to participate in Thursday’s OTA practice on a limited basis.
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Watch as the Jets GM predicts what would unfold ahead of the Jets at No. 14
Mock drafts are a necessary exercise, and not just for websites looking to boost traffic numbers during the NFL offseason. Teams also run through simulations of the draft, to game out different scenarios in preparation for the real thing.
Perhaps the New York Jets learned a lot from those exercises.
In the days and weeks following each NFL draft, the teams share behind-the-scenes videos from draft weekend.