Nickel cornerback Jalen Pitre and the Houston Texans have agreed to a three-year, $39 million contract extension with $30 million guaranteed, a source confirmed to ESPN.
Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever will square off against Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky in primetime to tip off the inaugural WNBA Rivals Week in August.
Auburn Tigers men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl was named the chairman of the Board of Directors for the U.S. Israel Education Association (USIEA) on Thursday.
Pearl is one of the handful of Jewish coaches in college basketball. He has been one of the most outspoken supporters of Israel, which only grew in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack. He was one of three Jewish head coaches who made the NCAA Final Four last weekend.
"I am deeply honored to be named Chairman of the U.S. Israel Education Association, and hope I can even begin to fill the shoes of outgoing Chair Dr. Phil Roe, former member of Congress and Chair of the House Veterans Affairs Committee," Pearl said in a news release.
"My experience in Israel was transformative. I felt it was my responsibility to become more involved in the mission of USIEA and educating senior government leaders in America on the importance of supporting Israel. I also shared this important journey with my team. In August 2022, Auburn University became the first Division I basketball team to play a professional Israeli team, marking a historic moment in both college athletics and U.S.-Israel relations. I’m proud to continue advocating for greater understanding and collaboration between our two nations."
"I’ve dedicated much of my life to teaching young people about the importance of leadership, values, and understanding different perspectives," Pearl added. "My work with USIEA aligns with those principles, and I’m excited to continue building a bridge of understanding between these two great nations."
Pearl led Auburn to a 32-6 record. The Tigers’ Final Four appearance was the team’s first since 2019. Pearl has led Auburn to its only two Final Fours.
The college baseball season is winding down and Spring Hill College and the University of Mobile are two schools hoping to get a chance at the postseason in NCAA Division II and NAIA respectively.
The intensity of the last few games of the 2025 season appeared to have added to the pressure of their game on Tuesday as things quickly got out of control between players from both teams.
In the bottom of the 11th inning, the two teams were tied. Spring Hill was up at bat when Seth Williams popped a foul ball behind the catcher. Pitcher Isidro Jimenez was hyped after the catch and let Williams know about it.
It did not sit well with the batter.
Williams and Jimenez went nose-to-nose when Mobile players rushed toward the Spring Hill player and bumped him. The Spring Hill players came back to retaliate, and it was on from there.
"These are haymakers being thrown," the broadcaster said. "This is not just a … these are pure haymakers."
"During Tuesday’s baseball game between Spring Hill and Mobile, play was suspended after the 11th inning following an on-field altercation involving members of both teams," Spring Hill College told WKRG-TV.
"SHC holds all of our student-athletes and coaches to the highest standards of conduct and sportsmanship. What occurred does not reflect the values of our program or institution."
The University of Mobile declined to comment to the station.
Mobile is 22-18 this season and 9-12 in the Southern State Athletic Conference. The team competes in the NAIA.
Spring Hill is 28-9 this season and 21-2 in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The team competes in NCAA Division II.
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Despite an impressive 51 years in the sports industry representing the crème de la crème of athletes, Leigh Steinberg's career as an agent and philanthropist is far from over.
Steinberg’s approach to athlete management, which includes negotiations for top-tier athletes such as 64 first-round NFL Draft picks in just the first eight years of his career, elite MLB players and Olympic athletes, has remained strategic in both hustle and heart for decades.
The inspiration for "Jerry Maguire" signs athletes who dream of both reaching Hall of Fame status and embedding philanthropy into the minds of their loyal fan base.
"Whether it’s setting up a charitable fund at their high school, a similar thing at their colleges, charitable foundations at the professional level where they take some issue they’d like to address and set up a foundation," Steinberg told Fox News Digital, "all with the concept of an athlete as a role model."
Steinberg highlighted NFL superstar and client Patrick Mahomes’ initiative, 15 and the Mahomies Foundation, as an example of what is possible when elite athletes use their names to raise awareness and funds for a cause.
Mahomes’ foundation, established in 2019, is dedicated to improving the lives of at-risk and underserved youths. Most recently, the foundation revealed the expansion of scholarships in childhood education and reported in 2024 that youth volunteers contributed $2.6 million in service hours through the organization.
"I’ve been very involved with restating what an agent’s responsibility is," Steinberg said. "I think part of it is to care for a player’s health."
Beyond working with athletes to choose a foundational focus, Steinberg clocks time daily as chair of the Leigh Steinberg Foundation, which aims to educate and raise information about the risks of athletic concussions and fund prophylactic treatment of concussions and healing the concussed brain.
"In a sport like football, which is a traffic accident in every play and concussion is an ugly specter, I’ve tried to be proactive over the years," Steinberg told Fox News Digital. "I had a crisis of conscience back in the 1980s because I was representing half of the starting quarterbacks in the NFL. They kept getting hit in the head, and we would go to doctors and ask how many is too many? When should they contemplate retirement? And they had no answers, and so I started holding concussion conferences back in 1994."
Since its inception, Steinberg said the foundation has worked with treatment clinics IQMIND and NESTRE to identify two new breakthrough technologies, transcranial magnetic stimulation and neurofeedback, which heal a concussed brain through the theory of neuroplasticity.
"We also try to provide treatment for underserved communities that don't necessarily have a way to deal with brain health," Steinberg said. "So we'll be looking to bring treatment to a number of people who wouldn't otherwise have it."
In just one week, Steinberg says the foundation raised $500,000, which, in part, will be allocated to host seminars and spread awareness to parents with children in athletics.
Among the voices behind the foundation’s public service announcement and educational campaigns are former NFL quarterback Warren Moon, former defensive end Bruce Smith and former linebacker Ray Lewis. Steinberg hopes to welcome female soccer players to the team of messengers in the future.
"There's hope out there and people need to know they can get treatment," Steinberg said.
Despite an impressive 51 years in the sports industry representing the crème de la crème of athletes, Leigh Steinberg's career as an agent and philanthropist is far from over.
Steinberg’s approach to athlete management, which includes negotiations for top-tier athletes such as 64 first-round NFL Draft picks in just the first eight years of his career, elite MLB players and Olympic athletes, has remained strategic in both hustle and heart for decades.
The inspiration for "Jerry Maguire" signs athletes who dream of both reaching Hall of Fame status and embedding philanthropy into the minds of their loyal fan base.
"Whether it’s setting up a charitable fund at their high school, a similar thing at their colleges, charitable foundations at the professional level where they take some issue they’d like to address and set up a foundation," Steinberg told Fox News Digital, "all with the concept of an athlete as a role model."
Steinberg highlighted NFL superstar and client Patrick Mahomes’ initiative, 15 and the Mahomies Foundation, as an example of what is possible when elite athletes use their names to raise awareness and funds for a cause.
Mahomes’ foundation, established in 2019, is dedicated to improving the lives of at-risk and underserved youths. Most recently, the foundation revealed the expansion of scholarships in childhood education and reported in 2024 that youth volunteers contributed $2.6 million in service hours through the organization.
"I’ve been very involved with restating what an agent’s responsibility is," Steinberg said. "I think part of it is to care for a player’s health."
Beyond working with athletes to choose a foundational focus, Steinberg clocks time daily as chair of the Leigh Steinberg Foundation, which aims to educate and raise information about the risks of athletic concussions and fund prophylactic treatment of concussions and healing the concussed brain.
"In a sport like football, which is a traffic accident in every play and concussion is an ugly specter, I’ve tried to be proactive over the years," Steinberg told Fox News Digital. "I had a crisis of conscience back in the 1980s because I was representing half of the starting quarterbacks in the NFL. They kept getting hit in the head, and we would go to doctors and ask how many is too many? When should they contemplate retirement? And they had no answers, and so I started holding concussion conferences back in 1994."
Since its inception, Steinberg said the foundation has worked with treatment clinics IQMIND and NESTRE to identify two new breakthrough technologies, transcranial magnetic stimulation and neurofeedback, which heal a concussed brain through the theory of neuroplasticity.
"We also try to provide treatment for underserved communities that don't necessarily have a way to deal with brain health," Steinberg said. "So we'll be looking to bring treatment to a number of people who wouldn't otherwise have it."
In just one week, Steinberg says the foundation raised $500,000, which, in part, will be allocated to host seminars and spread awareness to parents with children in athletics.
Among the voices behind the foundation’s public service announcement and educational campaigns are former NFL quarterback Warren Moon, former defensive end Bruce Smith and former linebacker Ray Lewis. Steinberg hopes to welcome female soccer players to the team of messengers in the future.
"There's hope out there and people need to know they can get treatment," Steinberg said.
With less than a week left in the regular season, Denver fired its head coach and GM, ending a yearslong cold war, and risking the NBA's most precious commodity: the prime of three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic.
