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SEC scores half of preseason AP picks

Texas leads all team s with four players named to the preseason Associated Press All-America team announced Tuesday and the Southeastern Conference has 14 of the 27 first-team selections on the eve of the college football season. The Big Ten has eight players on the first team, led by Oregon quarterback Dante Moore and two of his teammates. Defending national champion Indiana, Georgia and Oklahoma each has two players on the first team, as determined by media members on the AP Top 25 voting panel. The Texas players on the team are offensive lineman Trevor Goosby, wide receiver Cam ...

Little Cyclones stave off MHS

AMES — The youthful Marshalltown girls’ tennis team got its first taste of the Iowa Alliance Conference on Monday, but Ames wasn’t a welcoming host. The Little Cyclones won 4-of-6 singles matches and 4-of-5 doubles bouts to take an 8-3 triumph from the visiting Bobcats on Monday evening ...

OSU and Oregon ranked Nos. 1-2

Ohio State and Oregon were 1-2 in The Associated Press Top 25 released Monday, giving the Big Ten Conference the top two teams in the preseason rankings for the first time in 65 years and just the second time ever. The Buckeyes received 40 first-place votes and Oregon received 14 in voting by ...

Jets’ Hall out with strained groin

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — New York Jets running back Breece Hall strained his groin during practice Monday and will have tests to determine the severity of the injury. Coach Aaron Glenn appeared cautiously optimistic after practice that Hall’s injury wasn’t serious. “I don’t think it ...

Field of Dreams game draws 1.66M viewers to Netflix

LOS ANGELES — MLB’s first game at the Field of Dreams movie site in four years in Dyersville, Iowa, averaged 1.66 million viewers on Netflix on Thursday night, according to Nielsen. The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Minnesota Twins 7-1 on two home runs by Kyle Schwarber. This was the first year that Netflix has carried one of MLB’s special event games. According to Nielsen, the average median age was 46, the youngest for an MLB special event game. Last year’s Speedway Classic in Bristol, Tennessee, between the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds averaged 1.6 million viewers ...

WNBA says fans can wear shirts with messaging about transgender issue

At least three fans were asked by WNBA security personnel to cover shirts that had messages about transgender women participating in women’s sports during Sunday’s game at Atlanta between the Dream and the Indiana Fever. The league said in a statement Monday that the fans should have been ...