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As NFL roster deadline nears, several teams make trades

Several NFL teams began trimming their rosters by making trades. They have to be down to 53 players from 90 before 6 p.m. EDT Sunday. Offensive tackle Broderick Jones a 2023 first-round pick, quarterback Quinn Ewers and defensive lineman CJ Okoye changed teams in separate deals on ...

College sports kicks off its season under the long shadow of court fights over eligibility

Imagine the Dallas Cowboys threatening to sue the NFC East, then teams in the division saying they won't play them unless they remove a player from their roster. No well-run pro sports league would dream of it. College sports? Threats, lawsuits and instability are now as common as play-action passes and handoffs. The week leading to the start of the 2026 season featured LSU and the Southeastern Conference squaring off amid a destabilizing frenzy of lawsuits over eligibility and the mind-bending reality that players who signed on with a pro team, albeit briefly, might soon be suiting ...

Texas judge puts SEC’s new eligibility rule on hold

Two days after the Southeastern Conference passed a rule barring players from returning to the league from the pros, a Texas judge put that rule on hold Thursday in a case involving more than 40 players. It was the latest piece of news in what has turned into a breakneck week of legal wrangling over the NCAA's new five-year eligibility rule. The rule does not apply to college players who exhausted their fourth year of eligibility last spring; many are suing across the country for that fifth year. "As long as they would have been eligible to continue playing college sports in the ...

Brewers overcome Dustin May’s early injury to rout the Mets 8-1

NEW YORK — Brice Turang hit a three-run homer and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the New York Mets 8-1 on Wednesday night, overcoming an injury to starter Dustin May after one pitch. May left in the first inning with a bruised right scapula when a 106 mph line drive off the bat of leadoff hitter A.J. Ewing ricocheted off his right shoulder blade. The right-hander was replaced by lefty Robert Gasser (4-5), who earned the win by tossing 5 1/3 innings of one-run ball. May became the first major league starter to exit after one pitch since Pablo López with the Miami Marlins on July 2, ...