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Rutgers dismisses five players following arrests
Tim Tebow cut by Eagles, report says
Judge's NFL bashing skips judgment of Brady in 'Deflategate' (Yahoo Sports)
A judge’s ruling freeing New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady to play football erased his four-game suspension but failed to address the root question of the ”Deflategate” scandal: What did Brady know about a plot to deflate balls before January’s AFC championship game? U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman thoroughly trashed NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s handling of the NFL disciplinary process in his Thursday ruling, but did little to cast
Rutgers dismisses 5 arrested players (Yahoo Sports)
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers has dismissed five players from its football team following their arrests earlier this week.
AP Source: Seahawks, Jackson agree on 1-year contract (Yahoo Sports)
The Seattle Seahawks and free-agent running back Fred Jackson agreed to terms on a one-year deal Friday, according to a person familiar with the contract talks. NFL.com first reported Jackson and the Seahawks had agreed to terms. The Seahawks’ interest in Jackson emerged when they learned that backup running back Robert Turbin suffered a significant high-ankle sprain last Saturday in a preseason game against San Diego.
Eagles clear spot for Tebow, trading Barkley to Cardinals (Yahoo Sports)
Tim Tebow made Matt Barkley expendable. The Philadelphia Eagles traded Barkley to the Arizona Cardinals on Friday, clearing a roster spot for Tebow after he won a preseason competition for the No. 3 quarterback job. Arizona sent a conditional seventh-round draft pick to Philadelphia for Barkley.
No. 4 Baylor plenty of offense in 56-21 opener at SMU (Yahoo Sports)
Art Briles and the Baylor Bears made the most of their fresh start – and chance to finally move past the playoff snub and Cotton Bowl meltdown that ended last season. New starting quarterback Seth Russell accounted for six touchdowns, with three of his five scoring passes to Jay Lee, and the No. 4 Bears finally broke out in the second half in a 56-21 victory at SMU on Friday
Austria, Germany open borders to migrants offloaded by Hungary
By Krisztina Than and Karin Strohecker HEGYESHALOM, Hungary/VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants on Saturday, bussed to the Hungarian border by a right-wing government that had tried to stop them but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers reaching Europe’s frontiers. Left to walk the last yards into Austria, rain-soaked migrants, many of them refugees from Syria’s civil war, were whisked by
Coalition attacks Yemen capital after UAE, Saudi soldiers killed
By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) – Warplanes from the United Arab Emirates struck Houthi targets across Yemen, state news agency WAM said on Saturday, a day after at least 60 soldiers from a Saudi-led coalition, mostly Emiratis, were killed in an attack in central Yemen. WAM said the UAE air force struck a mine-making plant in the Houthi-dominated Saada province in northern Yemen, as well as military camps and weapon