Month: December 2019

Joe Burrow, the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy on Saturday, won the Maxwell Award and the Davey O’Brien Award on Thursday night at the 2019 Home Depot College Football Awards in Atlanta.

The Miami Heat have suspended Dion Waiters six games, the team announced Thursday.

The Miami Heat have suspended Dion Waiters six games for “failure to adhere to team policies, violation of team rules and continued insubordination,” the team announced Thursday.

This is Waiters’s third team suspension this season. 

On Nov. 10, Waiters was suspended for 10 games for conduct detrimental to the team, in the wake of passing out on a team flight after consuming a THC-infused edible. 

He was also suspended for the Heat’s season opener and missed time during the preseason for what Miami labeled as personal reasons. 

The Syracuse product is in his fourth season with the Heat. Last season he played in 44 games, averaging 12 points, 2.8 assists and 2.6 rebounds per game.

Waiters has yet to appear in a a game this season. He is eligible to return Dec. 23 against the Jazz. 

The annual college football award were given out Thursday night in Atlanta, and LSU’s Joe Burrow was a big winner.

LSU’s Joe Burrow became the 17th player to take home both the Maxwell Award (Player of the Year) and Davey O’Brien Award (top quarterback) in the same season Thursday night in the 29th annual Home Depot College Football Awards.

A number of college football’s other standout performers received hardware as well.

Here’s a full list of the players who took home individual honors on Thursday:

Maxwell Award — College Player of the Year: Joe Burrow (LSU)

Runners-up: Jalen Hurts (Oklahoma), Chase Young (Ohio State)

Chuck Bednarik Award — Defensive Player of the Year: Chase Young (Ohio State)

Runners-up: Derrick Brown (Auburn), Isaiah Simmons (Clemson)

Davey O’Brien Award — Best Quarterback: Joe Burrow (LSU)

Runners-up: Justin Fields (Ohio State), Jalen Hurts (Oklahoma)

John Mackey Award — Outstanding Tight End: Harrison Bryant (FAU)

Runners-up: Brevin Jordan (Miami), Hunter Bryant (Washington)

Jim Thorpe Award — Best Defensive Back: Grant Delpit (LSU)

Runners-up: Jeff Okudah (Ohio State), J.R. Reed (Georgia)

Outland Trophy — Most Outstanding Interior Lineman: Penei Sewell (Oregon) 

Runners-up: Derrick Brown (Auburn), Tyler Biadasz (Wisconsin)

Biletnikoff Award — Outstanding Receiver: Ja’Marr Chase (LSU)

Runners-up: CeeDee Lamb (Oklahoma), Michael Pittman Jr. (USC)

Doak Walker Award — Outstanding Running Back: Jonathan Taylor (Wisconsin)

Runners-up: J.K. Dobbins (Ohio State), Chuba Hubbard (Oklahoma State)

Lou Groza Award — Outstanding Placekicker: Rodrigo Blankenship (Georgia)

Runners-up: Keith Duncan (Iowa), Blake Mazza (Washington State)

Rimington Trophy — Outstanding Center: Tyler Biadasz (Wisconsin)

Runners-up: Matt Hennessy (Temple), Creed Humphrey (Oklahoma)

Ray Guy Award — Punter of the Year: Max Duffy (Kentucky)

Runners-up: Dane Roy (Houston), Sterling Hofrichter (Syracuse)

The Mexico City Capitanes will join the NBA G League next season, becoming the league’s first club from outside the U.S. and Canada.

The NBA is continuing its international expansion and will launch an NBA G League team in Mexico City in 2020-21, the league announced Thursday.

Commissioner Adam Silver, speaking ahead of the Mavericks-Pistons game, which is being played Thursday night in Mexico City, announced that the Capitanes, a professional team currently competing in Mexico’s Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, will join the NBA G League as the league’s first club from outside the U.S. and Canada. 

It will have an initial five-year commitment from the league, playing its home games at the Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera in Mexico City. 

“Bringing an NBA G League team to Mexico City is a historic milestone for the NBA which demonstrates our commitment to basketball fans in Mexico and across Latin America,” Silver said in a statement. “As the first G League franchise based outside of the U.S. and Canada, we look forward to welcoming Capitanes to the NBA family.”

A two-time Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional runner-up and League of the Americas’ Final Four team, Capitanes debuted in the 2017-18 season. In September 2019, the team took part in the NBA G League International Challenge.

“The NBA G League has long been focused on growing the game in Latin America and internationally. Having a team in Mexico City is an important step in realizing that vision,” added NBA G League president Shareef Abdur-Rahim. “I’m proud to welcome Capitanes to the G League and look forward to watching the team play at Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera next season.”

The Capitanes will be the league’s 29th team and will be the lone franchise without an NBA affiliation.

Lamar Jackson broke Michael Vick’s single-season rushing record by a quarterback on Thursday night.

Lamar Jackson entered the Ravens’s “Thursday Night Football” matchup against the Jets needing just 23 yards to make history. 

And with just under nine minutes remaining in the first quarter, after already accumulating 22 yards on the ground, Jackson scampered for five yards, setting the record for most rushing yards by a quarterback in a single season.

“It’s something that everybody can be excited about,” Vick told Baltimore’s official website before the game. “Breaking that record, it’s something I can honestly say I didn’t think I’d see for a long time. When Lamar was coming out of college, we had conversations. I used to tell him, ‘Play your game, be you.’ But I couldn’t even foresee Lamar doing this so quickly. It shows if you’re with the right teammates, the right coaches, the right organization, what can happen.”

Entering Thursday night, the Ravens’s QB had accounted for the most offensive touchdowns this season (35), leading the NFL in both passing touchdowns and rushing yards, a feat that hasn’t been accomplished since Steve Young did so in 1994. 

The dual-threat quarterback is on pace to become the first player in NFL history to record a 100-plus passer rating and 1,000 rushing yards in the same season. And his four games with 100-plus rushing yards is already the most by a quarterback since 1950. Jackson is likely going to set a number of other records when the 2019 regular season finishes. 

One play after Jackson set Thursday’s rushing record, running back Mark Ingram scored a touchdown to help Baltimore take a 7-0 lead.

Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson broke Michael Vick’s single-season rushing mark for a quarterback of 1,039 yards in the first quarter Thursday against the Jets.