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Tonight, the city of Oakland mourning the death of beloved football coach John Beam, who gained fame from the Netflix series Last Chance You. >> Unfortunately, Coach Beam passed away this morning from a gunshot wound that he sustained yesterday. >> According to police, Beam was shot and killed Thursday at Laney College where he served as athletic director.>> This was a very targeted incident. >> Early this morning, authorities arresting a suspect, 27-year-old Cedric Irving Jr. ., a former football player at ...

We have some breaking news this hour. An athletic director at a college in California is dead after being shot on campus. John Bean was the athletic director and a former football coach at Laney College. Bean was considered a giant in Oakland both on and off the field teaching and coaching at the high school and college level for decades. A person is in police custody right now in connection with his shooting. NBC's Liz Cro is following this story for us and joins us now. Liz, let's just start with the vict ...

A company co-founded by the owners of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBA’s Lynx has started trading on the outcome of sports games on the prediction market Kalshi, an arrangement that is now being reviewed by the NBA https://t.co/WQOuJhgEsS ...

Former Manchester United star Rio Ferdinand, who has turned his focus to investing in sports businesses, says the way younger audiences consume football is reshaping the industry and that companies need to adapt fast https://t.co/Qjb1eR1bRP ...

You are in, I guess, the second phase of your career, which is with the launch of 39 Group, and that is a sports and entertainment company. Talk to us about the types of investments that you're looking for for the group. Yeah, I've got that.But I think that's just a my media company represents, which has real and different podcasts. My football agency and commercial agency knew everyone as well, which are really private. Private.And again, it's just I'm from a football background and that obviously encapsul ...

I've only had a few brief interactions with Kathy. To me, um her private conversations that she's had with individual players um or lack of the conversations have led to some, you know, rocky relationship status uh with the players. And and the one thing that I think the W has always stood on is when the players speak, people need to sit up and listen.And I think she's sitting up and listening now. Um I hope she would have done it done it earlier. I don't know if if she can ever kind of regra retract and an ...

Cleveland Guardians all-star pitcher Emmanuel Clase pleaded not guilty to charges he participated in an alleged scheme to rig bets based on pitches he threw during MLB games https://t.co/UaFPqCOXNn ...

The Seidler family has announced it will consider selling the San Diego Padres, potentially at a record valuation for an MLB team https://t.co/thYN9bEZ4o ...

Well, I completely agree with with Nefisa that the players should be making more than coaches. There's no doubt about that. Uh the CBA hopefully will bump up their salaries substantially.Um they deserve it. They've earned it. Um what those numbers I I can't throw out a specific number.I don't know the numbers, but they're due for a huge increase um in in salary. And it's got to be, you know, something that that is sustainable. And I think that's the biggest thing you got to remember that this league is stil ...