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Report: Pats sign C David Andrews through 2025
The New England Patriots and center David Andrews agreed to an extension through 2025, ESPN reported Thursday.,He will earn a base salary of $12 million in each of the next two seasons, with a max value of $13 million, plus a total of $8 million fully guaranteed, per the report.,Andrews, 31, has won...

Penn State coach James Franklin makes appeal for NIL money
Penn State coach James Franklin made a video appeal to Nittany Lions football fans on Thursday, asking them to contribute to a fund to pay players through the name, image and likeness program.,The funding is key to keeping Penn State competitive in the expanding Big Ten, Franklin told fans.,"Our goa...

Lions QB Jared Goff: 'More fired up than ever'
Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff made his goals clear on Thursday, the day the team announced his signing to a contract extension through the 2028 season.,"I'm more driven and more fired up than ever to go even harder and put the pedal to the metal even more to bring a Super Bowl to the city and...

Reports: Arizona State to name Graham Rossini as AD
Arizona State is expected to promote Graham Rossini to fill the vacant athletic director position, multiple outlets reported Thursday.,The position has been open since Ray Anderson resigned Nov. 13.,Rossini is the Sun Devils' senior associate athletic director and chief business officer. He was hire...

Inter Miami star Lionel Messi (knee) out vs. Orlando City
Inter Miami star forward Lionel Messi will miss Wednesday night's road match against Orlando City due to a left knee injury. ,Messi sustained the injury during a 3-2 victory over CF Montreal on Saturday. He went down in the 40th minute but ended up playing the entire match after being cleared by med...

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...

Amid turmoil, Jeff Fisher to lead Arena Football League
Former NFL coach Jeff Fisher has been named interim commissioner of the Arena Football League.,Fisher is taking the place of Lee Hutton, who didn't have the support of team owners as the league attempted to reboot after four dormant seasons. He exited the job on Tuesday.,The AFL began the season on ...

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...

Alex Albon signs contract extension with Williams
Williams Racing announced a multi-year contract extension with Alex Albon on Wednesday.,The London-born Thai driver has been with the Formula One team since the start of the 2022 season.,The extension keeps Albon, 28, with Williams into F1's new regulation era that begins in 2026.,"I am incredibly h...

Reports: Mets adding LHP Joey Lucchesi to rotation
The Mets are expected to recall left-hander Joey Lucchesi from Triple-A Syracuse to start Wednesday's road game against the Philadelphia Phillies, MLB.com and the New York Post reported Tuesday.,According to the New York Post, the Mets will also designate infielder Joey Wendle and right-hander Yohan...

Kirk Cousins takes field with Falcons, moving past injury, draft shocker
Healing from a season-ending injury and Achilles surgery, Kirk Cousins has lost interest in the draft night conversation centered around the Falcons selected quarterback Michael Penix Jr. with the eighth overall pick. ,Cousins participated in non-contact workouts with his teammates on Tuesday and sa...

Golden State WNBA expansion team reveals name, logo
The WNBA expansion team due to begin play in 2025 in San Francisco unveiled its name, logo and colors on Tuesday, introducing the Golden State Valkyries.,Valkyries are warrior women from Norse mythology.,"This brand is Golden State's modern interpretation of Valkyries: strong, bold, and fierce," the...

Reports: Lions award Jared Goff four-year, $212M extension
The Detroit Lions and Jared Goff have agreed to a four-year, $212 million contract extension with $170 million guaranteed, ESPN and NFL Network reported Monday.,Goff, 29, was entering the final year of a contract he signed with the Rams before the 2021 trade that sent Goff to Detroit and Matthew Sta...

Bucs S Antoine Winfield gets record 4-year, $84.1M extension
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are making Antoine Winfield the highest-paid defensive back in NFL history.,The All-Pro safety agreed to a four-year, $84.1 million deal that includes $45 million fully guaranteed, his agents confirmed to NFL Network on Monday.,It marks the first time in NFL history that a s...

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Kim Mulkey’s response to the LSU-South Carolina fight was trashy
When Michelle Obama said, “When they go low, we go high,” she wasn’t talking about Kim Mulkey. Class and decorum have never been her thing. On Sunday, No. 1 South Carolina remained undefeated and won its eighth SEC tournament title after defeating LSU, 79-72. It was a rematch of their January showdo...

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....

NFL Safeties are getting the short end of stick this offseason
It’s cap casualty season. The new league year begins on March 13, and every team in the league has to be under the hard salary cap by 4 p.m. EST on that date. Teams across the league are bleeding talent to reach the $255.4 million number....

Jalen Green’s filthy jam over Anfernee Simons is Dunk of the Year Worthy
During the course of an NBA season, we get quite a few wow moments in many different ways. If it’s not a defender getting crossed up so badly he hits the canvas, it’s a rim-shattering dunk that makes folks rise up out of their seats. Sometimes it’s us watching in awe as players like Stephen Curry or...

Are the Minnesota Timberwolves for real or <em>American Fiction</em>?
It’s Oscars Week, which feels like as good a time as any to draw up the NBA storylines and characters which could double as Oscar nominees.The Minnesota Timberwolves’ deceptive season has been one of the hottest topics in the West so let’s start there....