Month: April 2023

3:31 PM ET Simon Fraser University, the only NCAA football team in Canada, will disband its program, the university announced Tuesday. SFU found itself in a difficult spot after the Great Northwest Athletic Conference stopped sponsoring football after the 2021 season, forcing the Red Leafs to become a football-only member of the Lone Star Conference
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Apr 3, 2023 Georgia defensive tackle Jalen Carter is declining visits with any teams selecting outside the top 10 in this month’s NFL draft, agent Drew Rosenhaus told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Carter is scheduled to visit the Chicago Bears, who will pick ninth, on Monday. It will be his second visit after previously visiting the
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12:02 PM ET The Las Vegas Raiders have signed quarterback Brian Hoyer to a two-year deal, it was announced Tuesday. Earlier this offseason, the Raiders signed quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo to a three-year, $72.75 million contract on March 17. Las Vegas also has the No. 7 pick in this month’s draft. Hoyer was released by the
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2:51 PM BST A group of more than 150 former football, rugby league and rugby union players suffering from neurological impairments are due to join a class-action lawsuit against their respective governing bodies, lawyers representing the players said on Tuesday. London sports law firm Rylands Garth said it would issue proceedings in court on Tuesday
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Apr 4, 2023 Rafael Nadal will miss next week’s Monte Carlo Masters tournament having failed to recover in time from an injury that has sidelined him for months, he said Tuesday, shortly before top-10 players Carlos Alcaraz and Felix Auger-Aliassime also pulled out of the tournament. Nadal was forced to skip the Masters 1000 event
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4:50 AM ET British boxer Amir Khan has been handed a two-year ban from all sport after a test detected the prohibited substance ostarine following his fight against Kell Brook last February, the UK Anti-Doping agency said on Tuesday. Former light-welterweight world champion Khan, 36, announced his retirement in May after his sixth-round stoppage defeat
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Apr 4, 2023 McLaren CEO Zak Brown has challenged Mercedes boss Toto Wolff to a boxing match ahead of Formula One’s Las Vegas Grand Prix in November. Brown also wants to organise a race with Red Bull boss Christian Horner, who he shared a grid with in British Formula Three during the mid-1990s. “We were
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Apr 3, 2023 A spectator at the Formula One Australian Grand Prix suffered a cut to his arm when struck by a piece of debris from Kevin Magnussen’s car, putting the spotlight further on organisers’ safety protocols. Will Sweet told Australian radio station 3AW he was standing with his fiancee on a packed hill just
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