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    LOS ANGELES — Thirty years ago, Snoop Dogg was sipping on gin and juice, with his mind on his money and his money on his mind. These days, the Long Beach-based rapper and business man is running a company that sells gin and juice products, with his mind apparently on college football. Introducing the newly renamed "Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl presented by Gin & Juice by Dre and Snoop," which will ...

      JOLIET, Ill. – After battling back through the losers’ bracket of the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference baseball tournament, the St. Ambrose Fighting Bees came up short in Monday’s title game.

      Jim Larrañaga, Lon Kruger, Fran Dunphy and Dianne Nolan are this year's recipients of the Joe Lapchick Character Award. This is the 16th year the award will be presented to those who have shown the character traits of Lapchick, who coached at St. John's and with the New York Knicks. The quartet will be honored at a luncheon on Sept. 24 in New York. Larrañaga has spent the last 53 years coaching in college since he got his start as an assistant at Davidson College in 1971.

      CHICAGO — A billion here, a billion there — pretty soon you’re talking real money. The late Sen. Everett Dirksen may not have said exactly that, but he repeatedly raised that concern about spending tax dollars. For reference, $1 billion is more than the budgets of the Chicago Park District, Cook County Forest Preserves and Greater Chicago Food Depository combined. Annual spending for Chicago ...

      ARLINGTON, Texas — Caitlin Clark’s first game as a pro went like her last games as a collegian. Disregard the age of the opponent, she’s the best player on the floor, in a packed arena. On Friday night at the College Park Center in Arlington on the campus of UTA, the Dallas Wings’ WNBA team, thanks to some shrewd foresight, were the first team to host the Indiana Fever and the biggest thing to ...

      ARLINGTON, Texas — ”Reality is coming.” That was the warning all-time WNBA great Diana Taurasi issued Caitlin Clark when she finished her college career as the all-time leading scorer in men’s or women’s college basketball less than a month ago. The message was that Clark wouldn’t be facing 18-year-olds any longer. ”I’m here.” That was Clark’s announcement (she didn’t say it in words, just on ...

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      The NCAA and major college conferences are considering a possible settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that could cost them billions in damages and force schools to share athletics-related revenue with their athletes.

      ATHENS, Ga. — Once again, Kirby Smart is the highest-paid coach in college football. Only time will tell if he holds that distinction longer than last time. The University of Georgia announced Thursday it had raised Smart’s salary to $13 million a year and extended his contract two more years. Smart received a 10-year, $112.5 million contract in 2022 that made him the college football’s ...

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