Month: December 2021

Dec 8, 2021 DALLAS — Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant understands the concern over his increased minutes, given his lengthy injury history that includes a ruptured Achilles tendon suffered two and a half years ago. He just doesn’t want to hear about it. “I know people might be concerned about my minutes and I got
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6:36 PM ET Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Wednesday there have been preliminary discussions with the NCAA’s football oversight committee and in coaching circles about possibly changing the early signing period for recruiting. Bowlsby, a former chair of the oversight committee, said the American Football Coaches Association also has started talking about shifting the
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5:57 PM ET A month into the season, with the New England Patriots off to a 1-3 start, sportsbooks had coach Bill Belichick as a 40-1 long shot to win coach of the year. Two months later, Belichick is the consensus favorite and attracting a flurry of interest from bettors. Belichick moved past Arizona Cardinals
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1:43 PM ET Associated Press GENEVA — Boxing, weightlifting and modern pentathlon were set a target of about 18 months on Thursday to make changes in order to keep their status as Olympic sports for the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The governing bodies of boxing and weightlifting were described as problems by International Olympic Committee
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1:20 PM GMT South Africa and Saracens prop Vincent Koch will join Wasps next season, the club announced on Thursday. The 31-year-old, who has 31 international caps and played a crucial part in the Springboks side that lifted the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan, has played his club rugby in England since joining Saracens
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11:09 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Irish jockey Robbie Dunne was given an 18-month suspension on Thursday after being found guilty of bullying and harassing female rider Bryony Frost in a disciplinary case that highlighted a weighing-room culture described as “not conducive to the development of modern-day race-riding.” Dunne was found in breach on
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