— Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce and entertainer Taylor Swift have announced their engagement.
— East Carolina will open the 2026 football season at Alabama on September 5. The Crimson Tide won the only previous meeting at Legion Field in Birmingham, 23-22, in 1998.
— N.C. State defensive lineman Brandon Cleveland and offensive lineman Van Erickson must sit out the first half of Thursday night’s game with East Carolina after being ejected in the late stages of the Military Bowl.
— Nick Kurtz (Wake Forest) had a hit and scored a run for the Athletics in a 7-6 win over visiting Detroit on Tuesday night.
— Tampa Bay visits Cleveland today (MLB Network, 1:10 p.m.).
— The Masters will invite winners of national opens in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Scotland, South Africa and Spain while omitting winners of fall events on the PGA Tour.
— Hoggard is the No. 1 team in the 910 area code in the HighSchoolOT football rankings.
