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Bielema still needs to prove the Illini can win in a conference that just got even better with Oregon, USC, Washington and UCLA on board and has done away with divisions, the days of a weaker West now over.
With the Olympics underway, some of the central questions are what to make of, what to expect from and where to place this new team.
Is Jim Harbaugh’s successor really ready for this? It’s what everybody wants to know.
At halftime of last season’s game against Minnesota, everything started to get better for the Wildcats. Braun was right at the heart of it.
The former Blackhawks GM was part of the management group that suppressed sexual-assault allegations by former player Kyle Beach.
More money, more chaos, more excess. The Big Ten never has had more of all those things — or more juice within the sport.
Traveling abroad on a plane, going through customs, having her bags X-rayed and checked by foreign agents and drug-sniffing dogs no doubt brought back flashes of her 2022 arrest for “drug smuggling” in Moscow.
What most refuse to see is the beauty of the skin she chooses to live in. A skin at this point millions-on-millions thought she’d shed like most other Black athletes when their fame introduces itself to fortune.
Leyland — who broke into the big leagues with the Sox in 1982 — will be inducted on Sunday.
The answer is nothing, of course. In this week’s “Polling Place,” you voted on Bears priorities, the Cubs and the trade-deadline clock, and the futures of White Sox stars Garrett Crochet and Luis Robert Jr.
This week, the sports-media website Awful Announcing published its rankings of local MLB broadcast teams based on fan voting. The most beloved booth belongs to the Mets. The most disliked booth belongs to the Sox.
The Sox are the owners of the worst won-lost record in the game. At their current pace, they’re on track to finish 45-117. If they pick up their pace of losing just a bit, they might break the 1962 Mets’ record for the most defeats in the history of modern baseball.
“I don’t want to blame it on my injuries, but it’s just hard to stay in a rhythm when you get hurt,” Jimenez said.
“Pedro and his staff, they work tirelessly,” Getz said.
The Cubs are listening to trade calls on a range of players before the deadline Tuesday.
The franchise announced it would break ground — in partnership with the Village of Bedford Park — on the 40,000-square-foot facility this fall.
The 2023 fourth-round pick knows he’ll have to make the most of his opportunities with DJ Moore, Keenan Allen and first-round rookie Rome Odunze ahead of him. But he’s determined to “star in his role” as a niche weapon in Shane Waldron’s offense.
After years of fighting it off, being featured on the series has turned out to be a non-factor in training camp so far.
The Packers are getting ready to pay quarterback Jordan Love more this season than the Bears owe Caleb Williams for the next four years. For the Packers, making the investment is a good problem to have. For the Bears, though, it’s an opportunity.
Crochet is at 111 1/3 innings over 21 starts when 20 to 25 were the expectation.
Saban coached Eberflus his junior year when he was a linebacker at Toledo.
Cease (10-8) struck out nine and walked three in his third complete game in 145 starts. He threw a career-high 114 pitches.
The rookie quarterback had an uneven practice, his fourth of training camp, on Thursday. The Bears will hold their first padded practice Friday.
Illinois is reaching out for applicants for conservation police trainee, but time is of the essence.
The ceremony starts at 12:30 p.m. Chicago time and is expected to last more than three hours. It will air on NBC-5 and stream on Peacock.
The Sox fell 50 games below .500.
Getz isn’t naming names, but it’s known he’s listening on everyone, Garrett Crochet, Luis Robert Jr. and Erick Fedde included. He acknowledged five or six players could be dealt as the Sox build for the future.
The Cubs lost to the Brewers 3-2 on Wednesday to fall 11 games back in the division standings.
The Sox’ run toward the 1962 Mets’ dreaded 120 losses looks more realistic by the day.
Los planes incluyen un auditorio, viviendas, parques y espacios peatonales como parte de un proyecto de 10 años de duración que podría comenzar en 2025.
This coming season will end a nearly four-decade run of games on TNT.