NEW YORK — Baseball’s spring training schedule will start Feb. 19 — if there is labor peace. Major League Baseball said Friday that all 30 teams are scheduled to play exhibition games that day in Florida and Arizona as part of the lead-up to the season’s start on March 24. However, ...
BATON ROUGE, La. — Athlete after athlete took the stand in a state courtroom near LSU on Thursday to explain why they should be allowed to return to play college sports after turning pro while the commissioner of the powerful Southeastern Conference argued against them and the league doubled ...
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Led by D’Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai, the Chicago Bears like their depth at running back. Health is an issue at the moment. Monangai is week to week with a leg injury after he got hurt during practice on Aug. 16. Swift departed Thursday’s padded practice with a ...
North Carolina football general manager Michael Lombardi has resigned after ending up on paid administrative leave as the subject of a school investigation. The school announced Lombardi’s resignation Thursday and said it would continue its ongoing probe. The school has not released specifics of the investigation since placing Lombardi on leave in late July. Lombardi was an immediate hire of Bill Belichick as the six-time Super Bowl-winning coach of the NFL’s New England Patriots made the transition to college coaching with the Tar Heels. UNC opened the year by beating TCU in ...
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Pop Watson III passed for 197 yards and three touchdowns as UMass ended a 16-game losing streak with a 37-21 win over Rutgers in the season-opener for both teams on Thursday night. It ended the longest current losing streak in the FBS. The Minutemen’s last win against ...
NEW YORK — Alex Eala and her fans are headed to the weekend at the U.S. Open, along with two-time champion Naomi Osaka and 2023 winner Coco Gauff. So is Madison Keys — just barely — but not No. 3 Felix Auger-Aliassime, who became the highest-seeded player knocked out of the tournament ...
