A group composed of Toronto investors and rocker Jon Bon Jovi looking to purchase the Buffalo Bills insist that it is not looking at potential new stadium sites in Southern Ontario and that its plans are to keep the team in Western New York.
Russia will not be granting foreign athletes national citizenship
StandardRussia will not be betting on foreign athletes by granting them national citizenship to achieve high results at international sports competitions, according to Alexander Zhukov, President of the Russian Olympic Committee. “We need to rely on our domestic athletes as we have a lot of talented young athletes,” Zhukov is quoted as saying by the Russian Itar-Tass wire service. “Of course, we had a couple of instances, like at the Olympics in Sochi, but they are not connected with the naturalization tendency. It is obvious that the main hope is in our athletes.”
Big 12 football facilities always on the grow
StandardOn the final day of August, Baylor will christen its new football stadium with a primetime Sunday game against SMU. A national television audience will get the rare opportunity to see one of the nation’s top offenses play in college football’s newest stadium.
Adam Silver’s Summer of Discontent
StandardThe glowing reviews for National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver for bouncing Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for “racist” remarks made to a woman friend in his home that happened to be caught on some recording device and turned over to a tabloid website and TV show are just that, glowing reviews from sportswriters and sports talk radio show hosts and TV talking heads. Silver is a very smart man and knows that Sterling isn’t the only problem that needs attention. Away from the intense glare of the Sterling exile, which hasn’t happened because Sterling has the right to legal due process and is taking full advantage of that, is a more troublesome problem.
IOC President calls for “dialogue and peace” after Malaysia Airlines tragedy
StandardInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach today repeated his call for Russia and Ukraine to try to solve their current conflict after 298 people were killed abroad the Malaysia Airlines flight shot down earlier this week.
McIlroy secures first Open Championship win and third major with two-shot victory at Royal Liverpool
StandardRory McIlroy joined an exclusive club with his first Open Championship win today as he held the Claret Jug aloft at Royal Liverpool to become only the third player in history to win three majors by the age of 25.
Pace Cited: SEC Experiments with Eight Football Officials
StandardIn soccer there’s diving, where a player falls to ground and rolls around in excruciating pain after an opponent merely breathes in his vicinity.