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CFL announces field, rules changes that align closer with NFL
The Canadian Football League on Monday unveiled a two-year plan to introduce dramatic changes to the rules and dimensions of the sport.,The more drastic changes are reserved for 2027, and they'll result in the Canadian game looking more like American football. Goalposts will be moved to the back of ...
Big 12 punishes officiating crew for rules violation
The Big 12 Conference reprimanded an officiating crew Tuesday for a gaffe in Missouri's weekend win over Kansas.,The rules violation occurred following a first-quarter touchdown by Missouri, when the Tigers were penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct. After Kansas blocked the extra-point try followin...
Masters resets rules for qualifying criteria that better align with the Open
Augusta National Golf Club announced Tuesday that winners of six national opens will earn invitations to the Masters starting in 2026.,The Scottish Open, Spanish Open, Japan Open, Hong Kong Open, Australian Open and South African Open will see their winners awarded with a Masters invitation.,The ann...
Video challenge rules proposed to speed up NCAA women's games
The NCAA Women's Basketball Rules Committee has forwarded a recommendation that, if approved, would make women's basketball coaches the ones to initiate a challenge by video review under certain conditions.,The recommendation, made this week at a meeting in Indianapolis, now will be forwarded to the...
NCAA rule change would permit direct payment to athletes
In a major move that would allow schools to start directly paying their athletes, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors proposed deleting 153 rules from its handbook as part of nine potential legislative changes at a Monday meeting.,The proposals are pending approval of the $2.8 billion House settl...
NFL competition committee proposes replay, kickoff changes
The NFL competition committee proposed changes to rules for next season around replay review and kickoff rules, which will be voted on next week along with several team proposals, including eliminating the tush push.,The committee announced a proposal Wednesday that would expand the reach of instant...
Every shot counts: LIV announces big scoring change
LIV Golf announced a major scoring change Wednesday on the eve of its season-opening tournament in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,For the first time in the circuit's history, every player's score in every round will count toward his team's total score.,Last season, the best three scores were taken in the fir...
F1 drivers to face fines, bans for swearing, political statements
Stricter policies for 2025 mean Formula One drivers could face hefty fines, suspensions and even championship points deductions for such indiscretions as swearing or making political statements.,The FIA, the sport's governing body, published new guidelines for stewards in Appendix B of the 2025 Inte...
MLS announces multiple changes to roster rules
Major League Soccer announced three "substantial" changes to its roster rules on Thursday.,The modifications go into effect during the current secondary transfer window.,"The new roster rules open the door for clubs to sign additional world-class players and more emerging stars, while also providing...
PGA Tour advisory council mulling big changes for 2026
The PGA Tour Player Advisory Council (PAC) is mulling changes for the 2026 season that could include reduced fields, relegation and majors on the Korn Ferry Tour. ,Three members of the council shared the ideas with Golfweek in a story published Tuesday. ,"We started talking and spitballing ideas abo...
Lions violate offseason contact rule, forfeit one OTA practice
The Detroit Lions will lose one OTA practice after the NFL and the players' union found they violated rules governing physical contact in the offseason.,The Lions announced Friday night that their practice scheduled for next Monday had been forfeited.,"On Friday evening the organization was made awa...
Despite the NFL salary cap rising, these players may be cut
The NFL officially set its salary cap at a record high of $255.4 million for the 2024 season. With that number comes the difficult task of cap clearing. Creating cap space is the top priority for teams until the new league year starts in a few weeks, and with it comes the loss of jobs. Here are the ...
Elly De La Cruz's foul ball accidentally smashes car window of pitcher throwing to him
Hunter Greene may have to pay for the damages to the rear driver’s side window of his Maybach SUV — not the guy who caused it....
Steve Kerr officiating complaints come across as sour grapes to some
Not everyone seems to be as “disgusted” with NBA officiating as Golden State head coach Steve Kerr....
Outlawing the 'hip-drop' tackle next season is going to wildly change the NFL. And not for the better
Tackling another human being is not easy. A good little-league coach teaches a step-by-step approach of facemask up, chest-to-chest contact, wrap, grab cloth, and drive. However, a live ball carrier does not stand still. In order to tackle fully equipped ball carriers who sprint, slide, spin and sha...
Weekend golfers are getting screwed because the PGA's elite are <i>too</i> good
One of the biggest changes in golf came earlier this week, when the USGA and R&A decided to implement a golf ball rollback, changing the way the golf ball travels at all levels of the sport. ...
Randy Arozarena’s mom’s opening pitch was straight gas
A player’s mom throwing the first pitch at an MLB game, what a sweet story. Add to it the fact that her day at the mound is the first time that she has seen her son play in the big leagues, the story is worthy of a tissue dab to the corner of both eyes. Randy Arozarena’s mom, Sandra Gonzalez, turned...
World Cup Day 4: Not much more than a feeling
If the story of the first three days of the World Cup was that the tournament favorites were kind of inching their way through their first matches, nothing changed on Day 4. Sweden, Holland, and especially France all had an air of trying to figure out what all the buttons do and what the lights mean...
The NFL and NBA players associations are taking questionable leadership routes
The first collective bargaining agreement in the history of professional sports was signed by the MLB and MLBPA in 1966. At that time the executive director of the MLBPA was the late Marvin Miller, formerly a union negotiator for workers of U.S. Steel. His fierce advocacy for labor rights is largely...
I swear, if robot umps do away with manager rants …
It’s hard to describe why Wednesday night’s wild ending to the Washington Nationals-Houston Astros game was so much fun. Maybe it’s because a 58-year-old man in a baseball uniform showed up to a postgame presser with photographic evidence of a blown call. Or it could have been that I have a friend w...