NFL: Champ Ravens must open on road
Instead of celebrating their Super Bowl title with a home game, the Ravens will start the 2013 regular season on the road, because MLB and the Orioles wouldn’t budge.
The NFL likes to have its reigning champion open a season at home and wanted to have the Ravens play in Baltimore at night on Sept. 5. But with the Orioles already set to host the White Sox next door at 7:05 p.m. on that date, and the leagues and teams unable to reach a compromise, the NFL announced yesterday the Ravens will have to play somewhere else.
Bills officials watched West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith’s on-campus workout in Morgantown, W. Va.
MLB: Baseball sues shut-down PED clinic
Major League Baseball sued a now-shuttered South Florida clinic and its operators, accusing them of scheming to provide banned performance-enhancing drugs to players in violation of their contracts.
The lawsuit in Miami-Dade Circuit Court seeks unspecified damages from Coral Gables anti-aging clinic Biogenesis of America and its operator, Anthony Bosch.
ETC.: Stony Brook bounced from NIT
In Iowa City, Roy Devyn Marble scored 28 points to help Iowa hold off Stony Brook 75-63 in the second round of the NIT. Iowa (23-12) will meet the winner of tomorrow’s game between Virginia and St. John’s.
Jameel Warney scored 17 points and Anthony Jackson added 15 for the Seawolves (25-8), who finished with the most wins in school history.
Hal Sutton, Steve Elkington, Corey Pavin and Roger Chapman shot 3-under 69 to share the first-round lead in the Champions Tour’s Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic.
In Carlsbad, Calif., Beatriz Recari shot a bogey-free 5-under 67 to take the second-round lead at the Kia Classic.
The Liberty have added four former players to their coaching staff, hiring Barbara Farris and Taj McWilliams-Franklin as assistants and Teresa Weatherspoon and Tamika Whitmore as associate coaches for training camp and various times during the season.