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Senate pushing bill to limit roster budget for college sports

With college football in full swing, proponents of the Protect College Sports Act have launched an all-out blitz to push the legislation through the Senate before the chamber breaks in the coming weeks. The bill aims to put guardrails around escalating spending in college sports as the ...

Two weeks left for MLB teams to make their playoff push

Clinching season has begun, with the Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers becoming the first teams to wrap up spots in the postseason. Here’s a quick rundown of baseball’s remaining unresolved races: In the AL The New York Yankees and Boston are almost certain to join Tampa Bay in the ...

Florida State fires its AD

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State fired athletics director Michael Alford on Monday morning, school president Dr. Richard McCullough announced. Alford had been Florida State’s athletics director since January 2022 after he was hired in the fall of 2020 to be the president of Seminole ...

US women’s basketball team fights for FIBA win

BERLIN — The names may change, but the results are the same for the U.S. women’s basketball team — another FIBA World Cup title. The Americans’ fifth championship in a row came Sunday in a 97-79 victory over France. It wasn’t as easy as the previous four, with the U.S. showing some ...

Texas is tops while Ducks take a tumble

There’s a new No. 1 team in the AP Top 25: Texas snagged the top spot after a wild win against Ohio State, giving the Longhorns their earliest No. 1 regular-season ranking since 1965. After losing 24-23 to Texas, the Buckeyes slid down five places to No. 6, leaving the top five for the ...

Zverev’s dream season continues with trophy

NEW YORK — Alexander Zverev’s best year in tennis goes on, and so does that lengthy Grand Slam drought for American men. Zverev won his second major championship and disappointed a crowd that was desperate to see the first Grand Slam title by an American man since 2003, beating Ben ...