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Tulsa LL team disqualified

Three leagues participating in the Little League Baseball Southwest Region Tournament filed a joint protest against Tulsa National Little League on Sunday morning and on Monday afternoon, the fate of Team Oklahoma was revealed. Oklahoma has been disqualified from the Southwest Region Tournament, according to team representatives from Louisiana and Texas West. Tulsa National Little League is facing another tournament controversy. Just weeks after its softball team was removed from the Southwest Region Tournament, three leagues have filed a joint protest involving Tulsa National’s ...

SMU to get backup work from its QB for now

DALLAS — SMU quarterback Kevin Jennings has a jammed finger on his throwing hand that will limit him in fall camp for the next week or two, though there are no concerns about his availability for the season opener. Coach Rhett Lashlee said Monday, four weeks before the Mustangs open at ...

FBI offering to help out NCAA with exploitation

INDIANAPOLIS — The FBI is teaming with the NCAA to start a program to combat sexual exploitation of college athletes whose private images are increasingly found and targeted online in an era when they use their name, image and likeness to enhance their own marketability. The FBI, which unveiled the collaboration Monday, said bad actors typically target athletes through phishing, and also by password and PIN targeting and by portraying themselves as social media customer service representatives with urgent requests to reset passwords. “Athletes have large social media followings, ...

Infantino, FIFA ‘deceptive’

UEFA, CONCACAF and the AFC believe that FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s recent plan to sell an interest in the World Cup was a “fundamental breach of trust” with the institutions world soccer’s governing body serves. In an “open letter to the football family” revealed on Monday, UEFA, CONCACAF and the AFC also said that “when trust is broken through deception, when an individual places himself above the collective that entrusted him with authority, that duty has been abandoned.” UEFA runs soccer in Europe, CONCACAF does the same for North, Central America and the ...

Second-winningest NBA coach Don Nelson dies

Don Nelson, the second-winningest coach in NBA history who won five championships as a player with the Boston Celtics, died Sunday. He was 86. Nelson’s family confirmed the death in a statement that did not say where he died or provide a cause. “On Sunday morning our beloved husband, ...

Carrington’s foul, post stir controversy in WNBA

CHICAGO — DiJonai Carrington of the Chicago Sky was ejected Saturday after being called for a Flagrant 2 foul on Sophie Cunningham of the Indiana Fever. Minutes later, Carrington posted on social media the words “WHITE PRIVILEGE” and tagged the Fever. Cunningham, who is white, was ...