Wednesday, 20 June 2012

The Champaign NewsGazette notes that thirteen NCAA FBS schools will have to pay out 272 million to coaches fired during aft...

SbB LIVE FROM LA (Jun 19, 2012 @ 7:17am ET)

11:00 AM: Grambling State University has approved a three-year contract for football coach Doug Williams. Williams had sued the school after he was promised a contract when he took the job in March 2011, but was told he would have to negotiate a new one.

9:00 PM: U.S. Marine Corporal Christopher Farias threw out the first pitch for Sunday's game at Dodger Stadium - and was surprised to find out that the catcher was his father, Lawrence.

8:45 PM: Video of the South Atlantic League holding its All-Star Game Home Run Derby on the deck of the U.S.S. Yorktown aircraft carrier in Charleston, South Carolina.

8:30 PM: A Czech basketball magazine asked Washington Wizards player Jan Vesely: "You're the only white playing for the Wizards. Is it odd for you?" Vesley's response: "No, it's not, we are all pros, nobody looks on the color of skin. The important thing is, we have to pull the same rope."

8:15 PM: An L.A. Kings fan (or perhaps two) took out classified ads in the Newark Star Ledger & Vancouver Province telling Devils & Canucks fans "Better luck next year".

8:00 PM: During a speech at a church event at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium Sunday, New York Jets QB Tim Tebow said that Mel Gibson's movie "Braveheart" "had the biggest impact on my life."

7:45 PM: Former high school football star Brian Banks, who spent five years in prison on rape charges but was cleared when his alleged victim admitted she lied, has created a Kickstarter account to raise money to make a documentary about his experience.

7:30 PM: New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was announced as one of this year's 18 new inductees into the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame.

7:15 PM: L.A. Kings Insider notes that the puck on the ice at the end of the Stanley Cup-clinching Game 6 was last seen in the glove of the New Jersey Devils' Patrik Elias.

7:00 PM: Arkansas Razorbacks offensive lineman Jason Peacock was sentenced to 10 days in jail & one year probation after pleading guilty to stealing another student's credit card.

6:45 PM: A man in Hopatcong, New Jersey called local police claiming he was the President & he wanted to talk to Jets QB Tim Tebow. When police went to look for the man, they found him his mother's bedroom closet under some pillows.

6:30 PM: Indianapolis Colts QB Andrew Luck & pro golfer Michelle Wie were among the 5,088 Stanford students who received their degrees in graduation ceremonies Sunday.

6:15 PM: Three soccer players for the Toronto FC MLS club were arrested on public intoxication charges after fighting outside a Houston nightclub early Monday morning.

6:00 PM: Ohio State released full details of Urban Meyer's contract, including an out clause that allows him to leave the job & still collect $1.5 million a year if more NCAA violations from the past pop up.

5:45 PM: The attorney for Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Aqib Talib says the case against his client on assault with a deadly weapons charges has been dismissed.

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