Author: Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY

President Donald Trump is backing college football players hoping to play amid expectations of conference cancelling seasons due to COVID-19.

Since 2014, the RedBox Bowl has been played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California and has matched opponents from the Big Ten and Pac-12.

For fifth consecutive year, Jerry Jones’ Dallas Cowboys land at the top of Forbes’ list of 50 most valuable sports franchises, valued at $5.5 billion.

The league also announced that no winter sports would start before Jan. 1, which would include men’s and women’s basketball and hockey.

Stanford, which currently has 36 varsity sports, will cut 11 of them after 2020-21 academic year, citing “a serious and growing financial challenge.”

The Premier Lacrosse League has unveiled its schedule for a two-week tournament, culminating in an Aug. 9 championship game that will be shown on NBC.

Kansas State president Richard Myers on Wednesday outlined school’s plans to fight racism on campus, days after football team threatened a boycott.

NCAA’s updated policy, announced Friday, will exclude championship events from states where the Confederate flag is prominently displayed.

Because of coronavirus, Boston Marathon had been postponed to Sept. 14 from Patriots’ Day running in April. But in-person race was canceled Thursday.

Danny Rose is not happy about the plan to return soccer to the UK, saying the sport shouldn’t be back “until the numbers have dropped massively.”