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Last swing: Birmingham-Southern's baseball team keeping closing school's spirt alive in World Series 05/30/2024 07:37pm • EASTLAKE, Ohio (AP) — They're playing for each other, a community dealing with a different kind of grief and a school that united them but is now closing — for good. Birmingham-Southern's baseball team is making one last run. The final swing. There's no waiting 'til next year. On Friday, the Pan Three-time defending champ Oklahoma opens Women's College World Series with 9-1 win over Duke 05/30/2024 07:35pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is off and running in its quest for an unprecedented fourth straight national championship. Kinzie Hansen homered and knocked in three runs, and the Sooners defeated Duke 9-1 in six innings on Thursday in the Women's College World Series opener for both teams. Hansen, SEC Commissioner says frustration with NCAA led to committee with Big Ten, but Division I can work 05/30/2024 07:29pm • DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — Frustrating meetings for the College Football Playoff and at the NCAA convention earlier this year led Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey to try to look for a way to seek solutions for issues facing college sports within smaller groups. “So afterwards, traveling Drew Brees enters the Saints Hall of Fame in a class by himself 05/30/2024 07:05pm • METAIRIE, La. (AP) — As Drew Brees reflected on his path to the Saints Hall of Fame, he listed off things that didn't go his way in the early stages of his athletic career. “I'm a product of not getting what I want,” Brees said while being introduced Thursday as the hall's lone 2024 inductee. Chris Johnson among former players curious if scouting is a way back to the NFL 05/30/2024 07:04pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Chris Johnson watches football whenever possible, and he knows talent when he sees it. Now the man nicknamed "CJ2K" for being among the NFL's exclusive group of running backs with a 2,000-yard rushing season is ready to see if scouting is his way to stay involved with the l Chiefs lineman Isaiah Buggs turns self in on misdemeanor cruelty to animal charges in Alabama 05/30/2024 07:01pm • TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs defensive lineman Isaiah Buggs turned himself in to the Tuscaloosa County Jail on Thursday on misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. Buggs was later released on $600 bond for two counts of cruelty to dogs in the second degree. The Tuscaloosa Police Departmen Woolery's 3-run homer puts No. 6 UCLA over No. 14 Alabama 4-1 in Women's College World Series opener 05/30/2024 06:50pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Jordan Woolery's moment was so big that she could barely recall it. Her three-run homer in the sixth inning lifted No. 6 UCLA to a 4-1 win over No. 14 Alabama on Thursday in the Women's College World Series opener for both teams. “I think I blacked out after I hit it,” Woo SEC's 8- or 9-game conference schedule debate on hold, but expanded CFP could factor into decision 05/30/2024 05:04pm • DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — The debate within the Southeastern Conference about whether to play eight or nine league games is not over, it's just on hold. After much discussion last year, the SEC locked in a short-term solution to the eight or nine question by agreeing to go with eight games for this seas Larry Bird Museum officially opens in Terre Haute 05/30/2024 04:21pm • TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — By his own admission, Larry Bird has always been a shy introvert. So he wondered why he has to keep talking on stage in front of thousands of people. “It’s because of the love and respect I’ve had for my fans and the love and respect they’ve shown me back,” Bird Power conferences join ACC in asking a Florida court to keep the league's TV deals with ESPN private 05/30/2024 03:57pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Three power conferences have joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in urging a Tallahassee court to keep the league’s TV deals with ESPN private. The Big Ten, the Big 12 and the Southeastern Conference filed a joint request in Leon County Circuit Court this week supportin Sports on TV for Friday, May 31 05/30/2024 03:45pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Friday, May 31 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. FS2 — AFL: Western at Collingwood AUTO RACING 6 p.m. FS1 — NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series: Qualifying, World Wide Technology Raceway, Madison, Ill. 7:30 p.m. FS1 — NHRA: Prince George’s Co. could make all gun shops and shooting ranges hand these out 05/30/2024 03:05pm • The Prince George’s County Council is moving closer to passing a new law that would require all firearms dealers and shooting ranges to display and provide pamphlets focused on firearm safety and mental health. It mirrors a similar law already in place in Anne Arundel County and Montgomery Florida hopes two-way star Jac Caglianone can finish his college career with more NCAA tourney wins 05/30/2024 02:14pm • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Running out of motivational speeches during a monumentally frustrating year, Florida coach Kevin O’Sullivan veered outside his comfort zone earlier this month. He didn’t want to single out any player. He didn’t want to make it about anything other than the team. But 'Pure grit.' Jordan Chiles is making a run at a second Olympics, this time on her terms 05/30/2024 01:49pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Jordan Chiles doesn't have to put herself through this. She knows it. The proof is tattooed on her arm. It's sitting in her trophy room. It's sprinkled on her social media feeds, which happen to be dotted with the kind of partnerships and experiences she once never dreamed Today in Sports - Week Ahead, May 31 - June 6 05/30/2024 10:05am • May 31 1927 — Detroit first baseman Johnny Neun records an unassisted triple play in the ninth inning to end the 1-0 win over the Cleveland Indians. Neun grabs a Homer Summa line drive, tags Charlie Jamieson at first and outruns Glenn Myatt to tag second. 1938 — Henry Armstrong beats Barney Ross