The College Football Board of Managers has unanimously approved expanding the current four-team playoff format to include 12 schools, the board announced Friday.
The Los Angeles Dodgers will attempt to continue their recent dominance over the San Diego Padres when they open a six-game homestand at Dodger Stadium Friday evening.
A day after her sister Serena advanced to the second round of the singles play at US Open tennis tournament, Venus Williams was not as fortunate, losing in straight sets to Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium. Appearing in an Open-era record 23rd US Open, Williams lost her first-round match 6-1, 7-6 (5) at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York.
After an 11-day trial, a Los Angeles federal jury on Wednesday ordered Los Angeles County to pay a combined total of $31 million to Bryant and an Orange County man who lost his daughter and wife in the crash for the mental anguish caused by photos sheriff’s deputies and firefighters took and shared of the crash victims’ bodies.
