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.
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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.
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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.
The SEC outlined its plan to handle disciplinary action for teams and players using the “Horns down” gesture when Texas joins the conference in 2024.
The sign is used to tweak the Longhorns and their fans, who have used the “Hook ’em Horns” gesture since the 1950s. John McDaid, the SEC’s coordinator of officials, wrote in a statement Tuesday that a potential unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for “Horns down” would need to fall within at least one of three areas.
Dan Marino set a record in 1984 that went untouched for decades.
The Hall of Famer threw for 5,084 yards, which surpassed Dan Fouts’s record of 4,802 set three years earlier. Marino became the NFL’s single-season passing leader in just his second year as a pro. More importantly, he became the first player in league history to cross the 5,000-yard threshold.
Marino was the only member of that club for almost a quarter century, until Drew Brees joined him in 2008.
The Pirates owned the No. 1 pick in the 2023 MLB draft, using their selection to take superstar LSU pitcher Paul Skenes.
On Tuesday, Pittsburgh and their top draft pick reportedly agreed to terms on a contract. The deal, according to Jim Callis of MLB Pipeline, includes the richest bonus ever given to an MLB draft pick.
Skenes and the Pirates reportedly agreed to a deal with a signing bonus worth $9.2 million, the largest MLB draft bonus ever doled out to a player.
Skenes’s $9.2 million deal shatters the previous record held by Tigers former No.
Brock Bowers’ selfless NIL move is just one example of how the Bulldogs’ mindset is fixated on one goal — winning a third consecutive national title.