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Nick Saban says there’s a simple solution to the sign-stealing problem in college football.
Appearing on The Pat McAfee Show Thursday, the Alabama head coach said in-helmet communication devices would prevent scandals, like the one currently happening at the University of Michigan.
The NFL already uses them. At the pro level, quarterbacks have speakers inside their helmets, which allow them to easily hear the play call from the coach on the sidelines — no signals needed. But these communication systems are not currently permitted at the collegiate level.

The first meeting between Nina King and Mike Elko came via a Zoom call in early December 2021. Elko was in Tampa recruiting, still the defensive coordinator at Texas A&M. King was sitting at a side table in her athletic director office at Duke, going through a round of early interviews.
Elko appeared on the screen wearing a button-down shirt. He’d gone shopping for one in Tampa before the call, a sartorial departure for a guy who prefers to live life in sweats. It was a small sign that he was serious about wanting the Duke job.

Adrian Peterson was eliminated last week from ABC’s Dancing With the Stars. No longer needing his dancing shoes, he’s now ready to return to football. 
Fans of the ballroom dancing show could see that Peterson, 38, remains in outstanding shape. That was surely a factor in his choice to participate in the reality TV competition. Plenty of current and former football stars have been successful on the show, including Emmitt Smith, Jerry Rice, Donald Driver, Hines Ward and Von Miller.

Rasmus Højgaard during the second round of the 2023 Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters. | Photo by Jose Manuel Alvarez/Getty Images
Rasmus Højgaard is on the precipice of receiving a PGA Tour card. A good finish at the Qatar Masters will send him there.
Rasmus Højgaard, at just 22 years old, is close to securing a PGA Tour card for the first time.
A top 10 finish at this week’s Commercial Bank Qatar Masters would put the young Dane over the hump thanks to new exemption guidelines.

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The LPGA is expanding and will take on the course at TPC Boston in 2024, with life-changing money up for grabs.
On Friday, the LPGA Tour announced a new event for its 2024 season at TPC Boston.
The FM Global Championship will be held Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, featuring a 144-player field competing for $3.5 million.
This new event will feature one of the largest purses on the LPGA Tour and will be the highest non-major or the Tour Championship.

Former NFL linebacker Blake Martinez is attempting a comeback following his failed Pokémon card business scheme. NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported that Martinez worked out for the Panthers this week.
Martinez retired from the NFL last November to get into the business of selling trading cards, primarily Pokémon cards. As the owner of the trading card company Blake’s Breaks, Martinez originally claimed to have earned over $5 million in the company’s first seven months.
However, it turned out that Martinez’s business apparently wasn’t up to par.

Tyrod Taylor will get another start for the Giants.

Colorado’s resurgence under Deion Sanders has attracted a number of top recruits who want to be a part of the new culture in Boulder. However, with so many high school players visiting the program, it seems Colorado may have dropped the ball with one player in particular.
Anwawn Jones, a former Colorado football player who spent a season with the Buffaloes in 2000, took to social media to criticize Colorado’s treatment of his son during a recent recruiting visit, saying the program kicked Marco Jones out of the recruiting area during a game.

Bagent threw more TD passes than any QB at any NCAA level ever, and prompts a Tony Romo comparison from Senior Bowl executive director Jim Nagy. Still, his story is pretty unexpected. Here’s why.

Welcome to the 119th World Series, the first played entirely in climate-controlled settings, the first with two teams that lost more than 100 games just two years earlier, the first with a combined regular-season winning percentage as low as .537 and the first absolutely nobody saw coming.
Well, I did try to warn you before the season started, at least as far as Texas and Arizona looking like surprise playoff teams. But the World Series? Please. But think of their appearance here as a feature, not a bug, of the playoff system.