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To answer your first question, no, Jaden Agassi never really got into tennis. Oh, he’s dabbled in the sport associated with his world-famous parents, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf. But that usually just results in Jaden smacking the ball as hard as he can, with no regard for the rules or the lines. His mom and dad can have their 30 combined Grand Slam singles titles. Jaden just wants to hit grand slams. “I love baseball,” he says. “I love the teammates, surviving and fighting with your brothers. Every game comes with a new set of challenges, and I really...

The SEC is delaying the start of its college football season. Per multiple reports, the conference is implementing a 10-game conference-only schedule for each team similar to the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12. But unlike those three conferences, the SEC is also moving the start of football season back. The first SEC games will kick off on Sept. 26, three weeks after the original Week 1 start date on Labor Day weekend. The delay means that the SEC Championship Game won’t be played until Dec. 19 instead of Dec. 5.

The NCAA will permit college athletes to wear patches on their uniforms that promote and support social justice causes. As approved by the NCAA’s Playing Rules Oversight Panel, athletes in all sports will be permitted to “express support and voice their opinions” in two places on their uniforms: one on the front or sleeve of the uniform or on the nameplate on the back of the uniform — the spot typically reserved for the athlete’s last name. The patches can also be for “commemorative and memorial purposes,” not solely for social issues. Predictably, the messages will require approval by “the...

ACC fall sports, including football, will move forward with some schedule modifications, the conference announced on Wednesday afternoon. Football programs within the league will play 11-game schedules, which include 10 conference games and one non-league contest beginning the week of September 7-12. Only one division will be recognized this year, with the teams holding the two highest winning percentages advancing to the ACC Championship game. That will be held at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte on December 12 or 19.

Soccer star Megan Rapinoe says the world has gone through big changes this year when it comes to race and equality but the conversation needs to continue. "Players may be back on the pitch, but we are not going back to an old normal. We need to continue to reimagine this world and make it better," she said in a statement.

There are two stunning things in this ESPN report. The first is the behavior attributed to Chinese coaches at NBA facilities, which apparently included physically abusing players in their young teens. The second stunning thing is that the NBA knew about all of this before the dust up last year about Houston Rocket’s General Manager Daryl Morey’s tweet supporting human rights in Hong Kong.ESPN reports that the League set up three NBA training facilities in China in 2016 including one Xinjiang, the province where China has sent around 1 million minorities to re-education camps in the past few years....

BOSTON (CBS) — Brad Marchand’s Wednesday morning in Toronto began with a bang, as the Bruins’ star winger fired off an emotional tweet directed at a Boston Globe reporter. “Are you [expletive] serious Porter?” Marchand tweeted at Boston Globe reporter Matt Porter. “This here is why you are part of the problem.” The tweet came in response to Porter sharing a screen shot of Tuukka Rask being interviewed on NBC Sports while wearing a Boston Police hat. That tweet was attached to another tweet, which shared the statement from Bruins players expressing their plan to lock arms during the national...

Welcome to the Stanley Cup Qualifiers Thread. The 24 teams who will be competing for the Stanley Cup are in their respective hub cities (Toronto for the 12 Eastern Conference teams, Edmonton for the 12 Western Conference teams). Exhibition games started Tuesday and the Stanley Cup Qualifiers begin Saturday.

The Minnesota Twins honored George Floyd with a moment of silence during Tuesday’s home opener against the St. Louis Cardinals. With the game in the fifth inning, the Twins halted the action at exactly 8:46 p.m. local time. The time denotes how long former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck when Floyd died on May 25.

A deal reached by the National Football Leauge and the NFL Players Association bans players from attending any indoor church services that are above 25 percent capacity, multiple sources told NBC Sports on Saturday.Alongside its restrictions on attending worship services, the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) also prohibits players from attending indoor nightclubs and bars (except for take-out), indoor concerts, professional sports games, and indoor parties that include 15 or more people. The deal has not been publicly released, but NBC Sports made no mention of any restrictions on attending protests. Meanwhile, the NFL’s Twitter account has been sharing and celebrating pictures of players...

I've been looking for RL17 powder for my rifle and it seems it's all out of stock.

New England Patriots linebacker Dont'a Hightower and safety Patrick Chung are among the starters opting out of the 2020 season, league sources told ESPN on Tuesday.‬ Running back Brandon Bolden also is planning to opt out of the season, a source told ESPN. Starting offensive tackle Marcus Cannon, fullback Danny Vitale and reserve offensive lineman Najee Toran earlier decided to opt out for the Patriots.

Brittney Griner didn’t take the floor for the national anthem during the Phoenix Mercury’s debut in the WNBA bubble on Saturday. Don’t expect her to do so moving forward. The Mercury center and 2019 league MVP runner-up told reporters on a video call Monday that the WNBA should stop playing the anthem this season.

**SNIP** NHL players from the 24 playoff teams woke up to their new reality Monday in the hub cities of Toronto and Edmonton, Alberta. Quarantined bubble life began with the league reporting zero positive coronavirus test results last week, and this existence away from the public is scheduled to last until the Stanley Cup is awarded in the fall. “We asked our group right from the start just to keep open minds because everything’s going to change, everything’s fluctuating constantly, daily, minutely,” Minnesota coach Dean Evason said. “It’s different. You’ve got a walkway with fences. People can’t see in. You...

BMW execs can now save the planet and their paychecks at the same time German giant BMW on Monday said executive pay would in future be tied to meeting strict targets aimed at lowering the luxury carmaker's carbon emissions. Speaking to reporters in Munich, chief executive Oliver Zipse said BMW wanted to reduce CO2 emissions by millions of tonnes a year by 2030 as part of its "very clear commitment" to the Paris climate agreement. "We will report on our progress every year and measure ourselves against these targets," Zipse said. "The compensation of our board of management and executive...

Cities, colleges and even the US Capitol are seeing growing battles over statues or building names after the killing of George Floyd. The University of Mississippi is facing a fight over its very identity. Like other universities, the state's flagship campus in Oxford is not generally addressed by its full name. For more than a century, it's been called Ole Miss. It sounds like folksy shorthand for Old Mississippi. The term's actual origin is more unsettling.

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Chaos erupts when 400 teenagers left unattended at Putt-Putt Fun Center A mini-golf complex got flooded with hundreds of kids after a mass parent drop-off, who then started wreaking havoc when they couldn’t get their money back … so say cops, anyway. This went down Saturday night at the Putt-Putt Fun Center in Memphis, where police officers responded to call for service over reports of chaos breaking out after several different parents left upwards of 300 to 400 children at the facility, who began destroying the joint. One of the teens ripped up the plexiglass at the front desk and...

The New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies will not play their Monday night game as scheduled, according to The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal. The game at Citizens Bank Park has been postponed. The game's status had been an open question since Monday morning, when the Miami Marlins were confirmed to have a COVID-19 outbreak on their roster.

The faculty of the University of Kentucky’s African American and Africana Studies department on Thursday wrote a letter to school president Eli Capilouto demanding that the school hire more black teachers, increase support for black students and remove the names of any “enslavers, Confederate sympathizers … and other white supremacists” from school buildings. It also called on the school to change the name of Rupp Arena, the downtown Lexington stadium where Kentucky’s basketball teams play.