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Ohio State University’s football season hangs in the balance as the Big Ten Conference presidents are reportedly set to vote on whether to cancel, postpone or play the season.

Players will earn less than they have in any season since 1996, when the average salary on opening day was $1.1 million.

The ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC and Pac-12 – otherwise known as the Power 5 conferences – could stand to lose billions if the college football season is canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green was fined $50,000 for tampering after he remarked that Devin Booker should leave the Phoenix Suns, the NBA announced Sunday.

Penn State fans are firing back after the university announced that season ticket holders would not be refunded seat contributions despite there being no fans in the stands this year. 

A total of 69 NFL players, including several prominent names, opted out ahead of a Thursday afternoon deadline.

Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., wrote to the commissioner of the NBA on Thursday, demanding answers over the organization’s relationship to a basketball training camp in the Xinjiang region in China -- and accusing the organization of having misled lawmakers.

An unopened case of 1986-87 Fleer Basketball cards sold for more than $1.78 million on Thursday night in an auction conducted by Collect Auctions.

The winning owner and canine will earn a $500,000 prize as well as a $250,000 donation to the animal charity of their choice.

Favre, 50, will serve as brand ambassador for the New Jersey-based company.

NFL legends Tom Brady and Michael Strahan, once rivals, have been working together on a sports media venture called Religion of Sports that last month got $10 million in backing from Elysian Park, LinkinFirm and existing investors Courtside Ventures and media mogul Shari Redstone’s Advancit Capital.