College Sports

WACO, Texas (AP) -- Baylor says its former athletic director made ''factually baseless assertions'' in a court deposition when he claimed regents tried to steer blame for the school's sexual assault scandal to the football team.

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The Gophers football program was picked to finish sixth in the seven-team Big Ten West division this season, according to Cleveland.com's annual preseason poll released Friday. Twenty-eight reporters who cover the conference projected Wisconsin to win the West with 196 points, which were allotted

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But don't mistake that for Long jumping into his new job with tunnel vision. “Sometimes I get labeled as a football guy and certainly we have football work to do at Kansas,” Long told the Journal-World in a phone interview a day after his introduction. “But I'm an all-sports guy and basketball

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ATLANTA — Reigning national champion Alabama has been picked to win the Southeastern Conference championship in a preseason media poll. Alabama was selected by 193 of the 284 voters this week at SEC media days. Georgia, last year's SEC champion which lost to Alabama in the national championship game

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The NBA's age-limit seems all but assured to disappear at some point. The NBA sent out a memo this spring indicating that the age limit, the restriction of players under the age of 19 being drafted by NBA teams that created the one-and-done rule in college basketball, will be in effect through at

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