Tuesday, June 19, 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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