3:52 PM ET Associated Press WACO, Texas — Baylor athletic director Mack Rhoades has been given a new 10-year contract only days after football coach Matt Rhule received an extension. University president Linda Livingstone announced the new contract for Rhoades on Wednesday. The contract goes through July 2029 and includes two automatic one-year extensions after
Month: October 2019
3:53 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tyler Reddick has been promoted to the NASCAR Cup Series with Richard Childress Racing next season to replace Daniel Hemric, who last month was told he would not be retained for a second season. Reddick is the reigning Xfinity Series champion and is third in the standings
3:55 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Brooks Koepka spent the majority of his short offseason recovering from stem cell treatment on his left knee, he revealed Wednesday. Koepka returns to competition at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, with the No. 1 player in the world giving Las Vegas its strongest field in
3:00 AM ET Sri Lanka opt to bat v Pakistan Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat, in their pursuit of a series-levelling victory in the third and final ODI of the series against Pakistan. Pakistan made two changes to the XI that won on Monday. Imam-ul-Haq who hurt the webbing on his
2:01 PM ET Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Coyotes have signed goalie Darcy Kuemper to a two-year contract extension with an average annual salary of $4.5 million. The deal announced Wednesday would keep Kuemper in the desert through the 2021-22 season. The 29-year-old Kuemper had been a career backup until Arizona’s No. 1
4:15 AM ET OITA, Japan — All three Barrett brothers got on the scoresheet as reigning champions New Zealand stormed to their second victory of the Rugby World Cup with a 63-0 bonus-point mauling of Canada at Oita Stadium on Wednesday. The All Blacks defied the humid conditions to cross four times in the first
12:29 PM ET As disappointed as junior welterweight Batyr Akhmedov was when he heard the scores for his vacant secondary world title bout against Mario Barrios on Saturday night’s Errol Spence Jr.-Shawn Porter undercard, it is worse now that he has viewed a video of the bout. Even after scoring knockdowns in the fourth and
5:23 AM ET Scrumhalf Baptiste Serin scored a try and set up another with a stellar game off the bench as Les Bleus scrambled to an stop-start 33-9 win over a gallant United States at the World Cup on Wednesday. With the United States within three points of the French going into the last quarter,
10:58 AM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Goran Ivanisevic has gained the most fan votes for the International Tennis Hall of Fame’s Class of 2020. That means 2001 Wimbledon champion Ivanisevic will get a bonus of 3% added to his results from the official voting group that includes journalists, historians and members of the
10:07 AM ET Sumit Nagal hasn’t been home to India since he played the biggest match of his life four weeks ago. He’s still a journeyman, flitting between Challenger tournaments, checking for Airbnb listings in the cities he’s traveling to and washing his tennis gear in hotel baths. Now though, occasionally he runs into a