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Latest sports stories
Sports · ⚽ Crystal Palace sack Pierre Sage after 16 games, bottom of table
Palace confirmed Sage's exit with three staff; the club's statement thanks him. Payout terms are not reported. 🗣️
Sports · ⚖️ Biggest NHL suspensions ranked: Bertuzzi's $501,926 to Cooke
Bertuzzi's ban ran 17 months and cost $501,926. Refs wiped Chychrun's penalty; no league discipline is on record in AP's report. ⏳
Sports · 💸 Coach fines on record: Jets $50K, NFL $75K, then Rex Ryan
The Jets and the NFL fined Rex Ryan before; the Nashville charges are warrants, with no plea or response on record in the reports read. ⏳
Sports · 💸 Antoine Walker, Vince Young debt fights: $822,500 to $2.5M
Walker pleaded guilty over casino debt; Young settled a lender judgment fight; Owens' camp denies missing support payments. 🗣️
BOOKEDPhoto: Pixabay · Pexels License⚖️ Rex Ryan surrenders in Nashville on six misdemeanor warrants
Police say the ex-NFL coach ran over two pedestrians' feet; bond is $6,000. ESPN says it is in touch; Ryan's own response is not reported. 🗣️
Sports · 💰 Aikman-Buck booth reportedly cost $34M a year; Brees eyes seat
Aikman is in his final ESPN contract year with no extension, per Yahoo Sports. He has not publicly addressed a reported row with Buck. ⏳
Sports · ⚖️ IPL spot-fixing case: CSK, Rajasthan Royals suspended 2 years
Lodha panel suspended both teams in 2015; a Delhi court discharged the players and police appealed. Appeal outcome unconfirmed. ⏳
Sports · 💸 Russell Wilson's Broncos release left $85M in NFL dead money
ESPN says the $85M lands over two seasons. The Broncos' statement gave no figure, and a league-wide ranking isn't in the documents read. ⏳
Sports · 🏈 Nate Marshall suspended indefinitely by Michigan football
Outlets first reported Nate Marshall had left Michigan; a spokesperson later said suspended indefinitely. Reason not stated. ⏳
Sports · ⚾ Brian Cashman says Pat Murphy apologized for Yankees remark
Cashman says Murphy phoned the morning after the World Series hot-mic jab. Murphy's own comment is not in the reports read. 🗣️
Sports · 💸 Biggest NBA fines for comments ranked: Sterling $2.5M first
Donald Sterling's $2.5M tops the list; Mark Cuban's $600K for tanking talk is next. Doc Rivers' 2019 fine hit the Clippers, not him. 📌
Sports · 🏈 Brent Key fires DC Jason Semore, 3 assistants after 2-7 start
Key says the changes were needed for the final three games. Buyout terms for the four coaches were not in the reports read. 🗣️
Sports · 🏈 Browns plan to start Deshaun Watson again over Shedeur Sanders
Coach Todd Monken has not named a Week 10 starter. Sanders threw for 297 yards and two scores in the loss; Watson was inactive. ⏳
Sports · ⚖️ Dillon Brooks pleads guilty to speeding, fined $500 in Arizona
Suns forward pleads guilty to misdemeanor speeding; outlets differ on which charge was dropped. No public comment found. ⏳
Sports · Terrell Owens served with defamation suit by Nolan Wells' friends
Three friends of Nolan Wells sued Owens in a Mississippi federal court over an X post. He replied on X: "Not worried. God is good."
Sports · 🏈 Urban Meyer suspended 3 games by Ohio State in Zach Smith case
Ohio State said Urban Meyer mishandled claims against Zach Smith. Meyer said he takes full responsibility; the school found no cover-up.
Sports · 💸 Toronto FC bought out Lorenzo Insigne, reported $15M a year
Robin Fraser is out after a 9-12-13 year. TFC's release on Insigne's 2025 exit gave no buyout figure; the salary is only reported. 🔒
Sports · 🏀 Doc Rivers apologized to Giannis by text, ESPN's Spears says
Marc Spears says Rivers apologized by text for the IQ remark about Giannis Antetokounmpo. No public reply found in the reports read. 🗣️
Sports · 💰 Hansie Cronje got a life ban after admitting $100,000 bribes
Cricket Australia won't reopen Sandpapergate, so here is the Cronje ban on record. Khawaja's claims are disputed. ⏳
Sports · 💸 Bill Belichick's Spygate fine: $500K and a first-round pick
Goodell fined him the NFL maximum in 2007 and he apologized. Hudson's new suit targets Airbnb hosts, not Belichick. 🗣️
Sports · ⚽ Toronto FC fires Robin Fraser after sixth straight playoff miss
GM Jason Hernandez says "a new voice is required." Contract terms were not in the reports read. 🗣️
Sports · 🏈 Robby Discher fired by Ohio State; $500K+ severance possible
Contract obtained by The Dispatch: severance could top $500,000, less if he's hired elsewhere. No Ohio State comment found. ⏳
Sports · ⚖️ Charles Leclerc: Austin DQ and 2 Brazil points lost at Ferrari
Stewards cost Ferrari two points in Brazil. In 2023 they disqualified Leclerc in Austin, and Ferrari accepted the plank measurement. 📌
Sports · ⚖️ Sandpapergate: David Warner, Smith banned 12 months, Bancroft 9
Warner calls the 2018 probe “rushed and botched”; Cricket Australia says it is comfortable with its findings. 🗣️
What the Sports desk covers
The sports beat covers what happens after the whistle: league fines, suspensions, doping bans, stripped titles, betting cases, coaching buyouts and the contracts behind them. It keeps score of the punishments, not the points.
Sports discipline has its own courts, and the desk reads them. A league's statement, an anti-doping agency's sanction notice or an arbitration award is the record a sports story is built on. Pundit takes, locker-room leaks and transfer rumours are not, and a player's denial on social media is reported as a denial, next to what the ruling body decided.
The records this beat is built on
- League discipline releases
- Fines, suspensions and appeal outcomes as the league or governing body announces them.
- Anti-doping decisions
- Sanction notices and full decisions from national and international anti-doping bodies, with the substance and the ban length.
- Arbitration awards
- Rulings from sports arbitration panels, which often overturn or cut a first punishment.
- Contracts and buyout terms
- Contract figures from public-university records, team releases and court filings, rather than agent estimates.
House rules on this beat
Sports stories give the length of a ban, the date it started, whether it was appealed and how the appeal ended. A fine is reported in the currency the body used. When a ban was cut or overturned, that is in the headline-level summary, not buried. Betting cases separate a league's finding from any criminal case running beside it.
Files on this beat
108 files- A. J. Hinch
- Alex Rodriguez
- Baltimore Ravens
- Baylor University
- Ben Johnson
- Bill Belichick
- Brandon Aiyuk
- Chauncey Billups
- Chuck Blazer
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Dana Holgorsen
- Dave Aranda
- Dillon Brooks
- Donald Sterling
- FIFA
- Floyd Landis
- Giannis Antetokounmpo
- Houston Astros
- Ippei Mizuhara
- Jaquan Brisker
- Jeff Luhnow
- Jeffery Simmons
- Jessica Pegula
- Joe West
- Jorge Messi
- Justin Gatlin
- Justin Herbert
- Kevin Kane
- Lance Armstrong
- LeBron James
- Lionel Messi
- LSU
- Major League Baseball
- Manchester City F.C.
- Matt Rhule
- Miami Heat
- Mohammad Amir
- National Basketball Association
- National Collegiate Athletic Association
- National Football League
- Nebraska Cornhuskers
- New England Patriots
- Pep Guardiola
- Pete Rose
- Purdue Boilermakers football
- Quentin Lake
- Robby Discher
- Salman Butt
- San Francisco 49ers
- Scott Laux
- Sepp Blatter
- Tennessee Titans
- Tim Donaghy
- Tom Brady
- United States Navy
- University of Arizona
- Usman Khawaja
- Adam Silver
- Antoine Walker
- Board of Control for Cricket in India
- Brent Key
- Brian Cashman
- Cameron Bancroft
- Charles Leclerc
- Chennai Super Kings
- Cleveland Browns
- Cricket Australia
- Crystal Palace F.C.
- David Warner
- Denver Broncos
- Deshaun Watson
- Doc Rivers
- Drew Brees
- ESPN
- Ferrari
- Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
- Hansie Cronje
- Hardik Pandya
- International Cricket Council
- Jakob Chychrun
- Joe Buck
- Jontay Porter
- Kirk Cousins
- Lewis Hamilton
- Lorenzo Insigne
- Mark Cuban
- Matt Cooke
- Minnesota Vikings
- Nate Marshall
- Ohio State University
- Pat Murphy
- Pierre Sage
- Rajasthan Royals
- Rex Ryan
- Robin Fraser
- Russell Wilson
- S. Sreesanth
- Shedeur Sanders
- Steve Smith
- Terrell Owens
- Terry Rozier
- Todd Bertuzzi
- Toronto FC
- Troy Aikman
- Urban Meyer
- Vince Young
- Women's Tennis Association
- Zach Smith