Month: May 2019

12:13 AM ET Green Bay Packers lineman David Bakhtiari was back to his beer-chugging ways courtside at the Milwaukee Bucks‘ NBA playoff game on Thursday night — and this time he got a pair of local MVPs to join in. Neither Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers nor Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich could down a beer
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11:59 PM ET Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork has been named the athletic director at Texas A&M. Bjork, 46, served as Ole Miss’ athletic director for the last seven years and replaces Scott Woodward, who left for the same role at LSU in April. Bjork will be formally introduced in College Station on June
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Ghana have officially named Andre Ayew the team’s captain for the Africa Cup of Nations, with the Fenerbahce loanee replacing Asamoah Gyan as skipper. Gyan, who retired last week after being told he would not be the captain for the tournament, and then unretired at the behest of the country’s president, has been given the
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11:04 PM ET Associated Press ROEHAMPTON, England — Tennis players at the lower and junior levels will have an easier opportunity to move up to the main tours under a new system that makes rankings points available at their tournaments. The agreement announced Thursday by the International Tennis Federation allocates rankings on the ATP and
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10:43 PM ET Michael Slater, the former Australia opening batsman and now commentator, will be heard on Channel Nine’s World Cup broadcast after the ICC confirmed he remains a part of the world broadcast feed for the event, due to begin on May 30. Following a highly publicised incident on Sunday when Slater was escorted
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9:16 PM ET Daniel Franco, a once aspiring featherweight boxer who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a knockout loss that ended his career and nearly his life in 2017, filed a lawsuit this week against former promoter Roc Nation Sports and its founder, music mogul Jay Z, claiming negligence. Franco filed suit Tuesday in
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