“We had a very unique opportunity because we have the institutions that could do it,” he said, though it would have been more accurate to call them franchises. No, this is a professional sports league that wants to be just like the NFL.īeginning in 2023, the $7 billion media rights contract will line up the conference’s top football games across three major networks every Saturday.Ĭommissioner Kevin Warren said it’s modeled after an NFL Sunday, with three marquee games across three different networks, airing from noon to nearly midnight on the East Coast. The debate over transgender athletes has taken a totally expected turn with news out of Utah that a girl was secretly investigated - without her or her parents being told - after high school officials received complaints from the parents of two girls she beat in a competition. Now, I’m no doctor, but turning your program into the Junction Boys is disturbing at the very least, if not outright abusive.įrost is clearly in desperation mode after going 15-29 over his first four seasons at the helm of a once-proud program that is now just a laughingstock.Īnd maybe even a dangerous place to play.
He’s kind of freed them up to go be aggressive and I love the way they’re coming off the ball.” “It’s not because they’re not in shape – he’s just working them hard,” Frost said, according to the Omaha World-Herald. In what sounded like perverse bid to show how hard everyone is working to save his job, Nebraska football coach Scott Frost proudly boasted of his offensive linemen puking 15 to 20 times a day at practice.įrost gave the credit - blame might be more appropriate - to their position coach, Donovan Raiola. Serena Williams' last opponent, Ajla Tomljanovic, is a fan A former federal judge who heard the case called Watson’s behavior “more egregious than any before reviewed by the NFL,” which is really saying something when one considers the league’s epic roll call of misbehavior down through the years. The Cleveland Browns quarterback got off easy after being accused of sexually harassing and coercing two dozen women during massage therapy sessions while he was with the Houston Texans.
Deshaun Watson will return to the football field this season, albeit after sitting out an 11-game suspension, paying a $5 million fine and getting some long-overdue treatment for his shocking behavior. Here we go (in no particular order of irritation): When you awake to a dreary day, it puts you in a bit of a mood.Įspecially when you’re a journalist, which for some of us is essentially a synonym for grumpy cynic.Ĭonsidering we’re still more than four months way from Festivus and the annual Airing of the Grievances, let’s see if there’s room for a new summer tradition.
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