College Football
Air Force, CU will end their 46-year gridiron drought
BOULDER, Colo. – Air Force and Colorado will face off on the football field in 2020, ending a 46-year drought in the series.
The Falcons will visit Boulder on Sept. 12, 2020, and the Buffaloes will visit the Academy on Sept. 10, 2022.
The last game between the schools was at Air Force on Oct. 5, 1974.
In 2020, Colorado will play both Air Force and Colorado State in the same season for the first time since 1958.
Colorado also announced other schedule changes after San Jose State opted out of a home-and-home series in 2017 and ’18, an agreement that was made before Colorado joined the Pac-12.
MLB
Nation’s eyes not drawn to the All-Star Game coverage
NEW YORK – Baseball’s All-Star Game drew a record-low television rating.
The AL’s 6-3 win against the NL in Cincinnati on Tuesday night earned a 6.6 rating and 12 share on Fox. The previous low was a 6.8 in 2012.
Fox said Wednesday the broadcast averaged 10.9 million viewers. That’s down from the 11.3 million for last year’s game, Derek Jeter’s final All-Star appearance.
Baseball’s All-Star Game remains the highest-rated of the four major North American pro sports leagues. It was Fox’s best Tuesday prime-time rating since Game 6 of the World Series.
NFL
High noon staredown ends between Bryant, Cowboys
IRVING, Texas – A person close to the negotiations said Dez Bryant agreed to a five-year, $70 million contract with the Dallas Cowboys.
The deal with the All-Pro receiver broke a stalemate that lasted months and ended about an hour before the Wednesday deadline to get a multiyear deal done. The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because the deal hasn’t been announced, provided the terms to The Associated Press.
Bryant had threatened to skip training camp and regular-season games without a contract to replace the $12.8 million offer for one year he had under the franchise tag.
Chiefs sign Houston to richest deal in team history
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press the Chiefs and All-Pro linebacker Justin Houston agreed to a six-year, $101 million contract that includes $52.5 million in guarantees.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday because the deal has not been announced. The sides had until late afternoon to work out a deal, otherwise Houston would have played the upcoming season under the franchise tag.
The deal is not only the richest in franchise history but also the richest for a linebacker in NFL history.
Soccer
U.S. Soccer chief details FIFA corruption case
WASHINGTON – U.S. Soccer Federation chief executive and secretary general Dan Flynn said he had no direct knowledge of bribery or kickbacks exchanged by FIFA officials but experienced moments of “discomfort” during meetings.
Flynn, testifying at a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing Wednesday, cited methods of votes at meetings of CONCACAF, FIFA’s subsidiary in North and Central America and the Caribbean.
Former CONCACAF presidents Jack Warner and Jeffrey Webb were among the 14 men indicted in late May in the U.S. Justice Department’s ongoing corruption investigation of soccer’s governing body.
Flynn says the “discomfort was kind of in generalities” and involved how Warner “ran the meeting and went through an agenda and had hand votes first.”
Associated Press
