Michigan State football didn’t have much onfield success in 2023, but they still made a boatload of money. Sportico released a ranking of the top 50 revenue-generating programs in the country for 2023, and Michigan State was listed in the top 20. The Spartans came in at No. 17 with $90 million in revenue. Compared to other Big Ten schools, …
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Will Chiefs three-peat? Will Yankees end World Series drought? Top sports stories for the rest of 2024
The first half of 2024 has provided sports fans with some unforgettable moments, whether it was the Kansas City Chiefs winning their second straight Super Bowl, the skyrocketing popularity in women’s basketball or the Boston Celtics cruising to their 18th NBA title. A high bar has been set for the rest of the year. Fortunately, the second half of 2024 …
Read More »Auburn football loses young cornerback for season to injured ACL
ALEXANDER CITY — Auburn football is already down a cornerback for this season. After appearing in four games in 2023, redshirt freshman Tyler Scott injured his ACL during team workouts this offseason and will miss the entire 2024 campaign, coach Hugh Freeze announced at an AMBUSH event Tuesday. Scott is a four-star recruit from the Class of 2023. He was …
Read More »49ers’ Campbell details Greenlaw’s mindset throughout recovery
49ers’ Campbell details Greenlaw’s mindset throughout recovery originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Dre Greenlaw remains fighting to return from the left Achilles tear he sustained during the first half of the 49ers’ Super Bowl LVIII loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. An all-out hustler on the field, Greenlaw will return to the gridiron when able. His new San …
Read More »Four-star 2025 linebacker Tavion Wallace commits to Arkansas football
Though Arkansas enters the 2024 college football season mired in uncertainty, its future got a little bit brighter Tuesday. Linebacker Tavion Wallace, a four-star prospect in the 2025 recruiting class, has committed to coach Sam Pittman and the Razorbacks, announcing his decision at a ceremony Tuesday night. A standout at Wayne County High School in Jesup, Georgia, Wallace is rated …
Read More »Jordan Love is ‘going to be the next superstar in this league for sure,’ says his new Packers teammate
Getty Images It hasn’t taken Josh Jacobs very long to jump on the Jordan Love bandwagon. On the eve of his first training camp with Love, the new Green Bay Packers running back spoke of Love the same way Reggie White likely spoke of Brett Favre following his breakout 1992 season. “To me, just from what I’ve seen, he has all …
Read More »Top sports stories for rest of 2024: Chiefs’ three-peat quest, Yankees look to end drought, Paris Olympics
The first half of 2024 has provided sports fans with some unforgettable moments, whether it was the Kansas City Chiefs winning their second straight Super Bowl, the skyrocketing popularity in women’s basketball or the Boston Celtics cruising to their 18th NBA title. A high bar has been set for the rest of the year. Fortunately, the second half of 2024 …
Read More »Auburn football K Alex McPherson battling ‘health issue,’ but expected to play in 2024
ALEXANDER CITY — Redshirt sophomore kicker Alex McPherson, one of Auburn football’s most effective players, is dealing with a non-injury-related issue ahead of his third season with the team. “It’s a weird issue, and I really don’t want to go into that,” coach Hugh Freeze said Tuesday at an AMBUSH event when asked about the health of his team. “But …
Read More »PFF surprisingly ranks Bears’ secondary in bottom half of the league’s units
PFF surprisingly ranks Bears’ secondary in bottom half of the league’s units originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago This offseason, PFF has unleashed its preseason rankings for a bevy of position groups. They recently did an overall ranking of each NFL team. Now, they’re ranking secondary units across the league. Surprisingly, they slotted the Bears in an unfavorable position, placing …
Read More »247Sports includes Iowa football’s 2024 slate among easiest Big Ten schedules
There’s no such thing as an easy schedule in the Big Ten. But, there are varying degrees of difficulty, and, in the new-look, 18-team Big Ten, there will be years where a schedule is just downright nasty. According to most analysts nationally, though, the Iowa Hawkeyes came out on the right end of that equation in 2024. 247Sports’ Grant Hughes …
Read More »Tampa Bay Lightning sign Cam Atkinson after contract buyout
The Tampa Bay Lightning signed free agent forward Cam Atkinson on Tuesday to a one-year contract worth $900,000, the team announced. Atkinson wasn’t headed into free agency when the Philadelphia Flyers’ regular season ended in April, but a contract buyout on Friday opened a new world for the veteran forward who has battled injury throughout his career. At 35, Atkinson, …
Read More »‘Forever Grateful’: Russell Wilson reveals Seahawks gifted him throwback jersey
The frosty relationship between Russell Wilson and Seattle Seahawks appears to have thawed a bit. As Wilson starts the next part of his career Pittsburgh Steelers, he revealed in a video posted to social media Tuesday that he had received a custom throwback jersey from the Seahawks with his name and famous No. 3. The Seahawks debuted their 1990s-era throwbacks …
Read More »Giants’ Jalin Hyatt has been relying on a kid’s snack to help him gain weight this offseason
Jalin Hyatt has a problem that many of us would love to have: the second-year receiver struggles to keep weight on. But while a lot of us wouldn’t consider that an issue at all, it is for an NFL player trying to withstand the rigors of a 17-game season. Hyatt, a New York Giants receiver who checks in at 6-foot …
Read More »Texas A beats three others for four-star LB Marco Jones
Texas A&M is staying hot on the recruiting trail. After landing three-star defensive tackle Chace Sims earlier on Tuesday, the Aggies added four-star linebacker Marco Jones later in the day as they beat out Michigan, Texas and USC for the Danville (Calif.) San Ramon Valley. Just days ago, Texas A&M beat out USC and Oregon for four-star linebacker Noah Mikhail …
Read More »New Jersey Devils welcome back Tomas Tatar
The New Jersey Devils on Tuesday signed free-agent forward Tomas Tatar to a one-year contract, the team announced, reuniting the veteran with a club he played on from 2021 to 2023. The deal is worth $1.8 million, and Tatar, 33, will likely slot into a second- or third-line role in New Jersey, after splitting last season with the Colorado Avalanche …
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