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Emilee Fails - Washington Football Team/Emilee Fails - Washington Football Team After a fully virtual offseason in 2020, players will return to the field this spring for rookie minicamp, voluntary offseason training activities (OTAs) and mandatory minicamp. The NFL announced the Offseason Workout Program calendar Thursday. Here are the dates for the Washington Football Teams program: Rookie minicamp: May 14-15 Mandatory minicamp: June 15-17 Teams are still currently in Phase One o...

AP NASHVILLE – Dillon Radunz, like the rest of his North Dakota State classmates, did his very best to make the most of life at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. During the start of the quarantine, after classes went virtual and when the school went on a spring break, Radunz decided to go on a camping trip. He wanted to get away, sort of. "He had his truck," North Dakota State head coach Matt Entz recalled, "but in the back of it he had a bed full of weights, and bar...

Chris Drury at the draft (Getty Images) The New York Rangers have made the dismissals of John Davidson and Jeff Gorton official. In a statement released today that reads in part: The New York Rangers announced today that team President John Davidson and General Manager Jeff Gorton are leaving the organization, and Associate General Manager Chris Drury has been promoted to President and General Manager, effective immediately. Senior Advisor Glen Sather will work with Drury durin...

Antigua is rejoining the program as associate coach. Coleman will be an assistant coach. LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky men’s basketball coaching staff has undergone an offseason transformation with a familiar face in Orlando Antigua returning to the UK bench and another top assistant from Illinois in Ronald “Chin” Coleman coming onboard. Antigua, a key assistant in the first five seasons of the John Calipari era at Kentucky, has rejoined the program as associate coach. Coleman is also h...

2021 Seattle Mariners MiLB affiliate preview: Arkansas Travelers (AA) Share this story Arkansas Travelers We continue on with our minor leaugue season preview series, moving into the upper minors after Kate previewed the Low-A Modesto Nuts and John did the same for the starpower-packed Everett AquaSox, now a High-A affiliate. The Mariners’ Double-A affiliate in Arkansas won’t have the same concentration of system talent as their worldbeating 2019 team, but this roster is full of doughty min...

When Mark Adams was hired as the coach at Texas Tech his first call was to retain Coach Sean Sutton who may or may not have a new role on the new look Mens basketball coaching staff. Then Adams went and hired Portland State head coach Barrett Peery and Arkansas lead recruiter Corey Williams. On Monday, the Red Raiders announced the hiring of Memphis Strength and Conditioning coach to the same role at Texas Tech and today Mark Adams fourth hire has been finalized with Talvin Hester pulling a qui...

Peak Perspective: Evaluating the First-Year 2021 MWC Coaches How did these 6 coaches fair in their first year at the helm? Share this story Photo by Sam Wasson/Getty Images The Mountain West conference experienced a significant turnover in head coaches during the 2019-2020 offseason. When all was said and done, six head coaches, or half of the teams in the conference, had been replaced. With so much new blood entering the conference, people did not know what to expect from the six new coaches....

The Rev. Marty Hamilton SUMMERDALE, Alabama — After National Day of Prayer observances were modified or cancelled last year because of COVID-19, in person services are once again being planned for Thursday, May 6 in the central and north Baldwin areas. According to its website, nationaldayofprayer.org, the National Day of Prayer is a vital part of our heritage. Since the first call to prayer in 1775, when the Continental Congress asked the colonies to pray for wisdom in...

How Shawn Olmstead brought BYU men’s volleyball back as national championship contenders Seventeen years ago, BYU men’s volleyball head coach Shawn Olmstead lifted the men’s volleyball NCAA National Championship trophy as a libero for the Cougars. In the 10-year gap between the national championship win and Olmstead being named head coach, BYU made the NCAA Championship game once in its two NCAA tournament appearances and won one MPSF Championship. Now, Olmstead has brought BYU men’s v...

USA BASEBALL FINALIZES 2021 PROFESSIONAL NATIONAL TEAM STAFF 04/22/21 USA Baseball Professional National Team Manager Mike Scioscia finalized the coaching staff for the 2021 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Baseball Americas Qualification Event for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad Tokyo 2020, the organization announced today. Coaching alongside Scioscia will be Jerry Weinstein (Bench Coach), Dave Wallace (Pitching Coach), Ernie Young (Hitting Coach/First Base), Darren Fenster (Thir...