Following an investigation of a racist slur directed at the Utah women’s basketball team in Idaho ahead of the NCAA tournament, the Coeur d’Alene prosecutor’s office opted not to file charges related to the incident. Chief deputy city attorney Ryan Hunter said in a written decision, which is dated May 3, that there would be no criminal prosecution because of “insufficient evidence to establish probable cause as to every element of any of the potential offense(s) without reliance on First Amendment protected speech.” According to the complaint review written by...

Rivalry games are always important to Vanderbilt baseball, but the Commodores’ four rivalry games this week carry extra stakes. Coming off five straight SEC losses, Vanderbilt’s spot in the NCAA tournament could be at risk. The Commodores needed the Battle of the Barrel rivalry game against Louisville on Tuesday to get back on track before hosting No. 1 Tennessee this weekend. Vanderbilt (33-16) got the win it needed, 4-2, over the Cardinals (29-19). Devin Futrell put up a strong start, allowing one run in five innings with one walk and...

San Diego State guard Miles Byrd (21), center, and teammates smile on the bench during the second round of the NCAA Tournament. A new eight-team college basketball tournament in Las Vegas over Thanksgiving week, and the $1 million check San Diego State’s NIL collective could receive from it, is rapidly moving from concept to reality. “It certainly feels like it’s all going in the right direction and that all parties have made the combined decision to make it work,” said Jeff Smith, co-founder of SDSU’s MESA Foundation collective. “It looks...

Reece Smith finishes his Northwest Missouri State University career a perfect 4-for-4 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association outdoor meet. The former Garner-Hayfield-Ventura prep star captured the title of the event on his home Herschel Neil Track on Saturday, running 8 minutes, 48.85 seconds, and leads off this edition of the WEEKEND UPDATE of the best performances by Iowa-based collegiate and postcollegiate distance runners and triathletes. Smith has established himself as one of the all-time greats in Bearcats program history.

SAN MARCOS, Texas – The NCAA transfer portal season is in full swing and plenty of big-name players are finding a better fit for their talents. Former Judson High School linebacker, Treylin Payne, has decided to leave the University of Houston and come a little closer to home, transferring to Texas State University. KSAT’s RJ Marquez tweeted out the update from sources close to the Bobcats football program and Payne then retweeted RJ’s tweet: Payne comes to Texas State after two seasons at UH, where he racked up 49 total...

Rutgers basketball’s most anticipated season in a half-century will feature a stop in Sin City. The Scarlet Knights are among the multiple teams that are “on board” to partake in a first-of-its-kind NIL-based event dubbed the “Players Era Festival,” which will take place in Las Vegas in late November, according to a report from CBS Sports on Tuesday night. Rutgers is one of seven teams that are “on board” to compete in the competition, per Matt Norlander and Dennis Dodd of CBS. The other six are Alabama, Houston, Notre Dame,...

An Indianapolis sports columnist will not be covering the biggest story in town — the Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark — following his cringeworthy interaction with the basketball icon, a company official said Tuesday. While Indianapolis Star spokesperson Lark-Marie Anton said she could not discuss any “personnel matters or personnel actions,” she confirmed that Gregg Doyel will not be a part of any Fever coverage following his awkward April 17 interaction with Clark. “Indianapolis Star sports columnist Gregg Doyel will not be covering the Indiana Fever,” Anton said in a...

BOISE, Idaho — Prosecutors in Idaho say they won't bring charges against a man who was accused of shouting a racial slur at players on the University of Utah women's basketball team. The incident outside the team's hotel during the NCAA women's basketball tournament in March drew national headlines as it also occurred in a region long associated with white supremacist groups. The harassment first surfaced during a tournament press conference where University of Utah Women's Head Coach Lynne Rogers said men in pickups revving their engines shouted the N-word...

Coeur d’Alene city attorneys have declined to charge an 18-year-old suspected of yelling intimidating racial slurs at the University of Utah women’s basketball team that marred their experience playing in March Madness in Spokane. Prosecutors said the suspect, a high-school student, admitted he yelled racial and sexual epithets at the players with the desire to be “funny,” according to a written decision released Monday afternoon by Chief Deputy City Attorney Ryan Hunter.