NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former NFL star Darren Sharper is scheduled to make his first appearance in U.S. District Court in New Orleans to face federal charges that he drugged women in order to rape them. A member of the Saints team that won the Super Bowl in 2010, Sharper was set to appear Monday […]
While many folks are clear on who they’re picking to win the much anticipated fight between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, Muhammad Ali’s family is divided on which fighter the former boxing champ is choosing to be victorious. According to TMZ Sports, Ali’s daughter Rasheda says her father is on “Team Pacquiao” in light […]
A group of prominent black coaches headlined by Tubby Smith and Shaka Smart are forming an organization to address the dwindling numbers of minority head coaches in college basketball. The National Association for Coaching Equity and Development is in response to the dissolution of the Black Coaches Association. Ten years after minority coaches held more […]
Muhammad Ali believes Floyd Mayweather Jr. will lose to Manny Pacquiao in their long-awaited fight on May 2, with his daughter hinting that Ali’s selection is influence by his disdain for Mayweather’s flashy lifestyle. “My dad is Team Pacquiao all the way! My dad stood for things,” Rasheda Ali told TMZ. “Mayweather … I don’t […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — UConn men’s basketball coach Kevin Ollie will not be traveling to the Final Four this week, abiding by a travel ban ordered by Connecticut’s governor because of Indiana’s new religious-objections law, the school announced Tuesday. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other critics contend the law would allow businesses to deny service […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Former NFL All-Pro safety Darren Sharper was sentenced to nine years in federal prison Monday immediately after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in Arizona, marking the first change of plea of the day for the former safety accused of drugging and assaulting women in four states. Sharper on Monday […]
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — President Barack Obama says compensation for college athletes would “ruin the sense of college sports.” Obama said in an interview released Saturday that what frustrates him, though, is college coaches, athletic directors and the NCAA making huge amounts of money while an athlete is banished for getting a tattoo or […]
IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys have made their big play in free agency with defensive end Greg Hardy. Although Hardy could face a league suspension for violating the NFL’s domestic conduct policy, the team said it agreed to terms with the former Carolina Panther on Wednesday. A person with knowledge of the contract […]
NEW YORK (AP) — NBA teams will no longer be outfitted by Adidas after the 2016-17 season, as the shoemaker and sports gear company said Monday it wouldn’t renew its partnership with the league. The league had already informed Adidas that it was opening the bidding for the next contract, according to a person familiar […]
In what many considered a referendum on the status quo, NFL player representatives voted to retain DeMaurice Smith as executive director of the union. In voting Sunday by the player reps, it took just one ballot for Smith to gain his third three-year term in charge of the NFL Players Association. He beat eight other […]
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Serena Williams returned to the BNP Paribas Open on Thursday, ending a 14-year personal boycott of the $5 million tournament that began when she was booed as a teenager on her way to winning the title in 2001. Williams took questions for 10 minutes a day before the world’s top-ranked […]
Free-agent running back DeMarco Murray is en route to Philadelphia to meet with Eagles officials, with the expectation that he will ditch the Dallas Cowboys and join the team, a league source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Thursday. Per ESPN.com: In the ensuing hours Thursday, Dallas began calling around looking for other running backs, expecting […]
