CANTON, Ohio (AP) NFL senior executive Joe Browne, who recently retired after 50 years in the league office, will receive the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Ralph Hay Pioneer Award during the induction ceremony Aug. 6.
BOSTON (AP) The Massachusetts medical examiner's office has ruled that former New England Patriots defensive lineman Ron Brace likely died from an irregular heartbeat combined with a heart condition caused by high blood pressure.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) Wake Forest showed signs of improvement across its athletic department this past year. Athletic director Ron Wellman says it just didn't show up in the won-lost records of its highest-profile sports.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) The scandal that has come to be known as ''Deflategate'' began with a simple tweet citing a league investigation into the footballs in the 2015 AFC Championship. It is now stretching into its third season, with Patriots quarterback Tom Brady scheduled to sit out the first four games of 2016.
MIAMI (AP) Charles Barkley says black people have ''got to do better'' in response to last week's shootings of black men by police and the sniper attack that left five officers dead in Dallas.