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Reports: Ryan Garcia suspended 1 year for positive PED test
Boxer Ryan Garcia received a one-year suspension from the New York State Athletic Commission after testing positive for the PED ostarine, multiple media outlets reported on Thursday.,Garcia's decision victory over Devin Haney on April 20 in Brooklyn has been declared a no contest, while Garcia will ...
Reports: Padres INF Tucupita Marcano faces lifetime gambling ban
Tucupita Marcano of the San Diego Padres could receive a lifetime ban from baseball for betting on Pittsburgh Pirates games while he was with the team last season, the Wall Street Journal and ESPN reported Monday.,Marcano and four minor league players currently face potential discipline, the reports...
Giants minor leaguer Anthony Tandron suspended 56 games
San Francisco Giants minor league shortstop Anthony Tandron was handed an unpaid, 56-game suspension Friday for testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.,Tandron, who was positive for the substance Boldenone, is a prospect on the Dominican Summer League Giants roster. ,A news release f...
NASCAR fines Ricky Stenhouse Jr. $75K for punching Kyle Busch
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was fined $75,000 by NASCAR on Wednesday for punching fellow driver Kyle Busch after the NASCAR All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway.,Richard Stenhouse, the driver's father, was suspended indefinitely for violations of the NASCAR Member Code of Conduct. NASCAR also issued a...
Astros starter Ronel Blanco suspended for foreign substance
Houston Astros right-handed pitcher Ronel Blanco has been fined an undisclosed amount and suspended 10 games for a violation of rules governing foreign substances, Major League Baseball announced Wednesday.,Blanco was thrown out of Tuesday's 2-1 victory in 10 innings over the Oakland Athletics at Ho...
Toronto FC coach among those suspended in post-match melee
Toronto FC coach John Herdman and two of his players were suspended for Wednesday's match at Nashville SC on the heels of a post-match melee with New York City FC.,Goalkeeper Sean Johnson and defender Richie Laryea also received one-match bans for their parts in an on-field altercation with NYCFC on...
If you don’t like players in college sports getting paid, you're really not gonna like this
The fire hydrant has been busted open and money is spewing in the streets of college sports. Mens’ college basketball saw the success of the Inaugural 2023 NBA In-Season Tournament and has decided to start one of its own....
Caitlin Clark is cleaning up in NIL, but college athletes still aren’t getting close to what they deserve
Some money is better than no money until you realize how much more money you should be getting....
Yes Charissa, sideline reporters are journalists
Last week, Charissa Thompson opened her yap on the podcast Pardon My Take and, for reasons still largely not understood by the rest of us, thought it was super-cute to admit that she has, in the past, made up sideline reports. How adorable!...
Now comes the tricky part for the Orioles
It’s awfully easy, and too easy, to point at an up-and-coming team like the Rangers that spent a lot of money to augment the players they developed from within and say that’s the reason they clobbered an up-and-coming team like the Orioles that did the exact opposite, basically only adding the decre...
Gene Smith and the NCAA’s NIL solutions would leave athletes with nil
Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith should be in his Danny Glover “I’m too old for this” stage of his career. The Buckeyes’ longtime athletic director is retiring in 2024, and presumably moving somewhere warm because Columbus is not the place. After this season, NIL isn’t his problem anymore. ...
Why have there been so many WNBA broadcasting blunders this season?
Broadcasters in the 2023 WNBA season are mostly pronouncing players’ names right. Considering the frequency with which on-air talent mispronounced players’ names (or misnamed players) in recent years, this is a triumph....
NIL and the reckoning of college athletics
When you give someone an inch to placate their desire for a mile, don’t be surprised when they still ask for a mile. For college football players and other student-athletes, name, image, and likeness deals were not the final step in fixing the flawed system that is college athletics, but rather a fi...
World Cup Final: What if the managers switched brains?
There’s some lesson to be learned that Spain won the World Cup with a manager they reviled, while the USWNT faceplanted in the round of 16 with a manager who got hired mostly because all the players loved him. I’m not exactly sure what it is, but it probably has to do with what really matters is the...
NIL deals are flawed, but Tommy Tuberville is not the solution
The latest proposed “bipartisan” piece of federal legislation to regulate name, image, and likeness deals for college athletes is being roundly applauded by the NCAA, the college coach-turned-senator who proposed it, other college football coaches, Power Five conferences, and a bunch of people who s...
Only one thing is going to fix college athletics, and it’s not Congress
There’s a problem facing college athletics that cannot be solved by the NCAA, the courts, the states, or the conferences. This immoral predicament of the greatest consequence — unregulated name, image, and likeness money — can only be solved by Congressional oversight, according to SEC commissioner ...
What exactly were the Brewers thinking?
Amidst all the hullabaloo following the Juan Soto trade (Nationals are officially a poverty franchise now, by the way), the Padres’ deal for Josh Hader has been brushed aside, tucked under the rug, becoming an afterthought. It was one of the most surprising trades of the deadline. Nobody expected th...
SEE IT! NASCAR's Joey Logano does big flip at Talladega
To paraphrase a line from the great Ricky Bobby — Yup. Joey Logano is flying through the air. This is not good....
Hand Sanitizer Cam does not deny anyone its essence
Look, I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’......
The NFL rewards men who put their hands on women
That headline is a doozy, isn’t it?...