Some of those ideas include 31% increase to the salary cap, making it $1.3 million, and an increased maximum salary of $215,000, up from $117,500, which puts the average league salary at $130,000. For players who are looking to start a family, the league will offer a $60,000 reimbursement for "adoption, surrogacy, oocyte cryopreservation or fertility/infertility treatment". [Full Article...]
Taking on German Laura Siegemund in the Australian Open warm-up exhibition tournament with heavy smoke blanketing Melbourne , the players and officials chose to stop play at 5-5 in the second set. "Then the umpire came down and said, "Play one more game". "We were out there for over two hours so I think from a health standpoint it was the right call from the officials". [Full Article...]
The Pro Football Writers of America have been releasing their 2019 award winners in recent days, and while the New York Giants were blanked on the All-NFL and All-NFC teams, they did land one representative on the 2019 PFWA All-Rookie Team. [Full Article...]
He and fellow Colombian Juan Sebastian Cabal won the Wimbledon and US Opens doubles titles previous year. He claims to have passed 15 other drug tests in 2019. The revelation came after another South American player, Chile's Nicolas Jarry, was provisionally suspended by the ITF after testing positive for banned substances at the Davis Cup in November. [Full Article...]
Clemson smashed Alabama in the title game, and with their quarterbacks returning, both were the overwhelming favorites finish off the 2019 season with another rematch. Burrow completed 31 of 49 attempts for 463 yards. Clemson has been a part of five of them. There is no denying that the New Orleans Saints are in a quarterback dilemma. [Full Article...]
India added only 42 runs for the last five wickets and play was stopped due to a kite flying into the stadium before Warner and Finch blew Kohli's side away. Pat Cummins and Ashton Agar were especially effective in keeping Dhawan quiet. India captain Virat Kohli (16) gave a return catch to Adam Zampa and Starc then had Shreyas Iyer (4) caught behind to leave the home side struggling at 164-... [Full Article...]
And while the European Tour's new policy begins this week in Abu Dhabi, the PGA Tour will see theirs go into effect at the RBC Heritage in mid-April, the week following the Masters. There will certainly be a monitoring checklist, and also there will certainly fines for "excessive shot times" for gamers that take greater than 120 secs to strike a shot. [Full Article...]
Humphries, a four-star recruit from Texas, did not play as a freshman for the Nittany Lions in 2018 before transferring to the University of California. Humphries says he and his father, former Penn State and National Football League player Leonard Humphries, reported the alleged hazing but were ignored. [Full Article...]