Links to the story AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn football and head coach Karen Hoppa announced the team’s roster spring exhibition matches Tuesday. “We’re really excited about this spring season,” Hoppa said. “The schedule is a good balance of home and away and will really test our team in a way that will prepare us to hit the ground running in the fall.” The schedule includes five competitions – two at home and three on the road. The Tigers are expected to face a tough set of opponents that include two national rivals, defending SEC Tournament champions Georgia,…
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Is VAR ruining the Premier League? In such a simple game, VAR has made the sport more complicated. This took a lot of the fun out of the game and made it more tedious to watch when VAR is involved. As such, hosts Kartik Krishnaiyer and Christopher Harris explain how VAR is ruining the Premier League and what the solution is, while comparing it to how other leagues handle VAR. In attempting to add spectacle to the Premier League, it has had the opposite effect. The talking point, of course, is the Newcastle-Arsenal match, as well as Fulham v Man…
There’s a growing list of firsts for women in sports, but Pamela McGee has an unusual one: She’s the first woman in the WNBA whose professional career became an issue in a child custody case.Under a court order, McGee on Tuesday placed her 3-year-old daughter in the care of her ex-husband while a court decides whether her basketball career interferes too much with her duties as a parent.Legal experts and women’s rights advocates disagree about how important a mother’s work schedule should be in such cases.Macomb County (Mich.) Chief Judge Peter J. Maceroni ruled this week that McGee’s ex-husband, the…
This Week in Auburn Soccer: September 5 Auburn Tigers Official Athletic Site
Welcome to the Tuesday edition of The Cooler, where you can always go home. Let’s go: *This is the kind of nightmare travel story a friend or colleague might tell you. But this one happened to a professional team at the highest level of its sport. The WNBA’s Indiana Fever played a game Sunday in Seattle, and the team was then supposed to return to Indianapolis Sunday night. They arrived at the Seattle airport around 7:45 p.m. for a 10:30 p.m. flight. But from there, according to Fever forward Natalie Achonwa’s frustrating but often hilarious Twitter account, Indiana had a…
Hume council will consider developing a comprehensive sports plan, as part of a planned $44 million spend on sport this financial year. At a meeting on February 12, football and its growth in Hume was the subject of heated debate, with its growing popularity a point of contention. Councilor Joseph Haweil presented the notice of motion, calling for a standalone soccer strategy, following Hume’s 13 per cent increase in soccer participation from 2018 to 2023. Officers recommended that instead of standalone sports strategies, the football strategy should be part of a holistic view of participation in all sports and its…
Friday, July 19: Washington Mystics vs. Indiana Fever – IMS Night/Kids Eat Free/After the Game Free Throws Celebrating the races in Indianapolis. Get tickets here. Friday, July 19: Las Vegas Aces vs. Seattle Storm – Inspiring Women Night Join the Seattle Storm to Evening of inspiring women. This special evening honors women who make a difference in the community. Fifteen Girls Golf participants will receive a free ticket and sit on the course before the match as the defending champion Storm takes on the Las Vegas Aces! To win a spot, tell us in 250 words or less why our…
EA has apologized to FC 24 fans after a bugged challenge accidentally awarded thousands of players an incredibly expensive and hard-to-obtain TOTY player. According to a Blog Posted on the official website, it appears that for 24 minutes on January 30, players participating in the new Squad Builder Challenges (SBC) had a spectacularly high chance of obtaining the non-tradable Lionel Messi 86+ OVR card worth several hundreds of euros. FC 24 Official Launch Trailer | Football is yours FC 24 Official Launch Trailer | Football is yours EA was informed of the problem and removed the challenge within half an…
In No offseason, Athleticism follows the journeys of female basketball players after their WNBA the end of the seasons and the beginning of their journeys. From Turkey, Israel, Italy, the Czech Republic, Mexico and even here in the United States, our journalists tell the stories of these players as they chase their dreams and try to shape the country’s future . WNBA.The subject is largely taboo. So taciturn that Erica McCall says she never heard any of her closest friends talk to her about it, nor did her sister, the Connecticut Sun All-Star wing. DeWanna Bonnerprovided him with exact details.McCall,…
July 18, 2023 4:31 p.m. • Last updated: July 18, 2023 4:34 p.m. New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu, center right, poses with WNBA Commissioner Cathy Englebert, center left, after winning the WNBA All-Star 3-point contest Friday, July 14, 2023, in Las Vegas . (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP) WNBA expansion still seems to be a topic of discussion around the league. It happens in the offseason, around the preseason, during the draft and it always comes up during Commissioner Cathy Engelbert’s State of the League press conference during the All-Star Game. This past weekend was no different, as…