Rasheed’s need for speed: USF student-athlete has shot at qualifying for Olympics TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Abdul-Rasheed Saminu is a sophomore at USF and hopes to qualify for the Olympics in Paris for the first time in his athletic career. “I was happy coming to America,” Saminu said. 05/17/2024 - 3:27 pm | View Link
Former Sarasota and Riverview High and USF running back Mike Ford dies at 37 After being dismissed in 2010 from the USF football team for violation of team rules, Mike Ford played semi-pro football and boxed professionally. 05/17/2024 - 4:09 am | View Link
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USF can place protest restrictions, First Amendment expert says At the end of the spring semester, 13 protesters were arrested at USF during on-campus demonstrations. After the protests, Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which organized the ... 05/14/2024 - 3:24 pm | View Link
USF’s Chris Brown looks to keep a winning record alive: “I’m not ready to leave this arena yet.” Though Chris Brown was named the new soccer head coach in November, he is not new to USF Athletics. Brown has been with the team for 17 years. He was an assistant coach to his wife Denise ... 05/14/2024 - 3:01 pm | View Link
The Broncos are going to be without one of their young linebackers into the regular season.
Second-year player Drew Sanders tore his Achilles tendon about a month ago during the early part of Denver’s offseason workout program, sources confirmed Monday to The Post
Sanders, a third-round draft pick in 2023, played inside linebacker after first being drafted and then during the season switched full-time to outside linebacker.
All told, Sanders played in all 17 games as a rookie, started four and finished with 24 tackles (one for loss).
Jonathan Drouin authored one of the best stories in the NHL this season and provided the Colorado Avalanche with incredible value.
Now, the question is will both sides be able to agree on a new contract to make this short-term partnership a longer one? There is certainly a will to make it happen on both sides, but the way remains a little less certain.
“I’m going to dwell on this loss for a bit.
Troy Renck: A day later, hearts remain in throats, fists remain in a ball. The frustration and disappointment with the Nuggets’ season-ending defeat is palpable. There is no shame in losing to a team as talented as the Minnesota Timberwolves. But the Nuggets did not lose. They choked. No NBA team over the last 25 years has ever squandered a 20-point lead in a Game 7.
In an emptying locker room of players who had forgotten what it feels like to end a season with a loss, nobody was in uncharted territory as much as Christian Braun.
Towel draped over his head, eyes red underneath it, the second-year guard was in a state of disbelief that replicated the entire Nuggets fanbase.
From celebration to cataclysmic ouster. You could almost feel the afterparty warming up. The Nuggets came out of the halftime locker room up 15 and promptly pushed their lead to 20. You could see Luka Doncic and Dallas preparing to fly northwest for Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals.
Then it all came crashing down.
Nikola Jokic’s expression was either vacant or vengeful, defeated or determined.
Staring at the basketball court but maybe beyond it, too, he stood alone on the Target Center baseline and watched the fourth quarter of a historic clobbering without taking his seat on the bench. Was he antsy to jump on the team plane back to Denver to play Game 7 immediately?