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The Iowa baseball team got a chance to show its stuff over the weekend, winning its scrimmage on Saturday 17-2 against the Toronto Blue Jays, a U-18 travel team. It was also a chance for the 2017 squad to get its Big Ten Tournament Championship rings. This was Iowa’s first-ever win in the tournament and it’s cool the team got a chance to be celebrated in a ceremony it more…

So today, we have Auburn, Southern California, Oklahoma State and Arizona as the bad apples. They’re the college basketball programs that have assistant coaches who have been indicted by federal authorities because they allegedly accepted bribes to push players toward a slew of potential moneymakers — financial advisers, Adidas, on and on. It would appear, too, from easily connected dots in the documents, that Louisville and Miami are being accused…

So today, we have Auburn, Southern California, Oklahoma State and Arizona as the bad apples. They’re the college basketball programs that have assistant coaches who have been indicted by federal authorities because they allegedly accepted bribes to push players toward a slew of potential moneymakers — financial advisers, Adidas, on and on. It would appear, too, from easily connected dots in the documents, that Louisville and Miami are being accused…

During his tenure as Tigers general manager, Al Avila has called many players to tell them that they had been traded. For one of them, he had a special message. “At the end of the call he was the one guy where I said, “I love you,’” Avila said with a hearty laugh. That’s because the player he had reached on the phone soon after the Tigers had landed in…

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL NEW YORK (AP) In one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in college basketball, 10 men – including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches – were charged with using hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence star athletes’ choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, even tailors. Some of the most explosive allegations appeared to involve Louisville, one of college basketball’s…

During his tenure as Tigers general manager, Al Avila has called many players to tell them that they had been traded. For one of them, he had a special message. “At the end of the call he was the one guy where I said, “I love you,’” Avila said with a hearty laugh. That’s because the player he had reached on the phone soon after the Tigers had landed in…

x Embed x Share CLOSE SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports’ NFL insider Lindsay H. Jones explains why NFL ratings were up in Week 3 despite President Trump’s open criticism of players kneeling for the national anthem. USA TODAY Sports Green Bay Packers fans wave the American flag following the national anthem on Sunday.(Photo: Mark Hoffman, USA TODAY Sports) For decades, Americans have stood for the national anthem and then sat down…

All across America last weekend, professional football players locked arms, took knees, stayed seated, or simply didn’t show up in a national anthem protest that symbolized their unity. In Southern California, a former pro athlete and Vietnam veteran has never felt more estranged. “It disgusts me,” Roy Gleason said. In the wake of a profane insult from President Trump, the NFL made headlines and magazine covers by teaming up to…

Nothing about what transpired in NASCAR over the last few days is surprising to anyone vaguely familiar with the sport. It’s not surprising that more than one NASCAR team owner threatened to fire anyone kneels or protests during the national anthem – or, as Richard Childress put it, we’ll “get you a ride on a Greyhound bus when the national anthem is over.” It’s not surprising that they sided with…

By EDDIE PELLS PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Reno is among three cities mentioned as possible hosts should the  U.S. Olympic Committee decide to bid for the Winter Olympics in 2026 or 2030. The other two are Denver and Salt Lake City, committee CEO Scott Blackmun said at a press conference on Monday. Blackmun said the USOC board will meet next month to discuss the possibility. The chairman of the group…

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship favorites Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Busch locked up their spots in the Round of 12 with wins at Chicagoland and New Hampshire, respectively. Kyle Larson and Brad Keselowski are also guaranteed a spot in the next round based on playoff points.  In Sunday’s Apache Warrior 400 at Dover, four drivers will be eliminated from the playoffs with eight others joining Truex, Busch, Larson and Keselowski in…

For millions of years, dinosaurs ruled the earth, striding the planet like the colossi they were. But sadly for them, they were all wiped out 65 million years ago, or roughly 65 million years before baseball was invented. As such, we’ve never been able to answer a pressing age-old question: Which dinosaurs would be best at the sport? Well, that’s what I’m here for. Presented below is an extremely scientific…

Earlier this month, word got out Japanese sensation Shohei Otani will indeed make the jump from Nippon Pro Baseball in Japan over to Major League Baseball this offseason. Nothing has been made official yet — Otani’s team, the Nippon Ham Fighters, has to agree to post him for MLB teams — but Otani has made it no secret he wants to join the big leagues and soon. There is now…

Last summer, at the Rio Games, the Ethiopian marathoner Feyisa Lilesa crossed his arms over his head at the finish line to protest Ethiopia’s treatment of his ethnic group, the Oromo people. He has been in exile since. “At the Olympic Games themselves, there is a prohibition on all forms of demonstration, political or otherwise,” said Scott Blackmun, chief executive of the United States Olympic Committee, referring to a rule…

The six-times Olympic champion Jason Kenny plans to race on to the Tokyo 2020 Games after previously contemplating retirement. The 29-year-old Bolton rider won three gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics to take his tally to six gold and one silver, level with the British record holder and former team-mate Sir Chris Hoy. Kenny married the four-times Olympic champion Laura Kenny, nee Trott, in September 2016 and the couple…

Race cars are lined up before  the NASCAR Cup Series 300 auto race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H., on Sept. 24. (Charles Krupa/AP) Kneeling in protest during the national anthem began with former San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick in 2016, but the act has expanded beyond the football player, including rapidly catching on over the weekend. Athletes on football teams across the country knelt Sunday in protest after President Trump called…

President Donald Trump, who over the last few days has repeatedly inserted himself into the country’s most popular sport, tweeted Tuesday that he wants the NFL to create rules against football players kneeling in protest during the national anthem. He has a pretty good example for such a move in the U.S. Soccer Federation. “The NFL has all sorts of rules and regulations. The only way out for them is to set…

H. Forman & Son was one of the business forced to move (Picture: Lance Forman) When the Chief Whip comments that to make an omelette, you need to crack a few eggs, it’s not terribly heartening when you are the one about to be cracked and beaten.   Almost 14 years ago, having just spent two years building and relocating to a new smoked salmon factory, we were told by the…

Earlier this month, word got out Japanese sensation Shohei Otani will indeed make the jump from Nippon Pro Baseball in Japan over to Major League Baseball this offseason. Nothing has been made official yet — Otani’s team, the Nippon Ham Fighters, has to agree to post him for MLB teams — but Otani has made it no secret he wants to join the big leagues and soon. There is now…