South Carolina coach Dawn Staley received a contract extension on Friday that will make her the highest-paid college women’s basketball coach of all time at a total value of about $25 million.
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The UFC’s first pay-per-view event of 2025 underwent a major change Friday, as lightweight title challenger Arman Tsarukyan was forced out of Saturday’s UFC 311 with a back issue.
Pro Bowl wide receiver Zay Flowers has not been ruled out by the Ravens for Sunday’s game in Buffalo. Flowers missed last week’s game with a right knee injury.
Marshall backed out of the game because so many players entered the transfer portal after coach Charles Huff’s departure.
Legendary Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker passed away earlier this week, and former Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy went on “The Ricky Cobb Show” to honor him.
Lucroy spent the first six and a half seasons of his 12-year career in Milwaukee, which meant that he got a chance to form a solid friendship with the broadcasting great. From the beginning of his career, Lucroy noticed that Uecker had a phenomenal sense of humor. During his first major league camp in 2006, he had a hysterical interaction with Uecker, who was a former MLB catcher himself.
Verse is looking to help the Rams reach the NFC title game for the second time in four seasons.
Call it the Taylor Swift effect.
According to the Kansas City Chiefs owner’s daughter Gracie Hunt, Taylor Swift is responsible for 30 percent to 40 percent of new fans for the team, ever since the pop star started dating tight end Travis Kelce and has been periodically showing up at home games throughout the last two seasons.
No sport’s success is more contingent upon individual star power than American basketball. That is one reason why the NBA and men’s college basketball are struggling to keep pace with the popularity and growth of other sports. Viewership for the NBA is down 48% since 2012.
The NBA’s one-and-done rule, which requires players to spend only one year in college, has prevented collegiate males from emerging as household names while in school. Players go pro before fans learn their first name.
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Here are our picks for the second week of the playoffs.
We’re drawing ever closer to the Super Bowl. It’s the NFL Divisional Playoff round and in a lot of ways this bodes to be even more exciting than the Conference Championships.
That’s largely because of one reason: Ravens vs. Bills. The game of the weekend is also the game of the season, and it feels like whoever wins in Buffalo will eventually move on to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl.
Jason Fitz & Charles Robinson sort through the top candidates for each of the open NFL head coaching jobs.