12:21 AM ET Longtime champion Jon Jones announced Monday that he’d be vacating the UFC light heavyweight title. One day later, there is a resolution on what will happen next with that prestigious belt. A bout between top contenders Dominick Reyes and Jan Blachowicz was already set for UFC 253 on Sept. 26, as reported
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9:41 PM ET The NCAA’s football oversight committee has developed a 12-hour schedule model for teams not playing this fall that it recommended to the NCAA’s Division I council for approval on Tuesday. 1 Related West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons, the chair of the football oversight committee, told ESPN on Tuesday that the model
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6:48 PM ET Notre Dame is suspending in-person classes and instead moving to virtual learning for undergraduate students until Sept. 2, but the school said the decision will not affect the current status of varsity athletics, including football. Notre Dame president the Rev. John Jenkins made the announcement about classes Tuesday. The decision comes after
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6:09 PM ET Michigan offensive tackle Jalen Mayfield has declared for the 2021 NFL draft. Mayfield won the starting right tackle job prior to the 2019 season and is only a redshirt sophomore, but announced on social media that he is forgoing the remainder of his eligibility. Mayfield said in his announcement that the past
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1:24 PM ET The Charlotte Hornets suspended radio broadcaster John Focke indefinitely after he used a racial slur in a tweet about Monday’s playoff game between the Denver Nuggets and Utah Jazz. Focke used the N-word instead of “Nuggets” in the tweet, which was later deleted. He apologized in a later tweet. “Earlier today I
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5:59 PM ET Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — One of two men convicted in the murder of Michael Jordan‘s father in 1993 will be released from prison in three years, state officials said Tuesday. The N.C. Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission announced in a three-paragraph statement that it has granted parole to Larry Demery, who
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5:22 PM ET Doc Rivers admits he has some agitators on his squad but says the LA Clippers were not trying to purposely instigate anything with Luka Doncic in Game 1 against the Dallas Mavericks. Following the Clippers’ 118-110 victory, Kristaps Porzingis said the Clippers provoked him into drawing a second technical and automatic ejection
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