Sources: Panthers fetch record $2.2 billion price
The Carolina Panthers are being sold for an NFL-record $2.2 billion.
Hedge fund manager David Tepper has agreed to buy the Panthers from team founder Jerry Richardson, two people familiar with the situation said Tuesday. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the team has not yet announced the sale.
The purchase is subject to a vote at the NFL owners meeting next week in Atlanta.
Richardson announced in December he was selling the team amid an NFL investigation into sexual and racial misconduct in the workplace. That decision came after a report by Sports Illustrated detailing Richardson’s alleged misconduct. The league’s investigation into the allegations is ongoing.
The price tag is the most ever paid for an NFL franchise, eclipsing the $1.4 billion the Pegula family paid to purchase the Buffalo Bills in 2014.
The 49ers claimed welltraveled cornerback C.J. Goodwin off waivers from the Giants, waived wide receiver DeAndre Carter and signed undrafted rookie defensive lineman Blaine Woodson.
Goodwin (6-foot-4, 220 pounds), 29, has been waived by the Falcons, Cardinals and Giants since Dec. 14 after playing 26 games (one start) with Atlanta from 2016-17. He entered the NFL as an unhe drafted free agent wide receiver with the Steelers in 2014. He moved to cornerback when he joined Atlanta in 2016.
Woodson, who attended last week’s rookie minicamp on a tryout basis, had 159 tackles and 14.5 sacks at Delaware. Carter, who attended Sacramento State, spent last season on the 49ers’ practice squad. — Eric Branch
Pro golfer’s wife arrested, charged
The wife of former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover is facing domestic violence charges stemming from an altercation with Glover and his mother after he missed the 54-hole cut at The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Krista Glover was arrested Saturday night and taken to the St. Johns County Jail. She was released on $2,500 bond on Sunday. She faces a May 31 court date on the misdemeanor charges. Glover said he is confident his wife will be cleared.
Police said Glover and his wife had an altercation, and when Glover’s mother tried to intervene, Krista Glover began attacking her. The arresting officer noticed cuts and blood on the arms and clothing of Glover’s mother.
⏩ Doug Ford, the oldest surviving Masters champion and a former PGA player of the year, has died. He was 95.
The PGA Tour said Ford’s family informed the tour that died Monday night. Details of his death were not immediately available.
Ford was inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2011. He won the 1955 PGA Championship and two years later won the Masters when he shot 66 in the final round to rally from a three-shot deficit to Sam Snead.
College baseball: Kyle Stowers homered and drove in three runs as No. 3 Stanford (40-8) beat BYU (21-26) 5-1 at Sunken Diamond. The Cardinal have won 19 midweek games in a row, a streak dating to 2016.
Cycling: Overall leader Simon Yates gained three bonus seconds in the 10th stage of the Giro d’Italia in Gualdo Tadino, Italy, but it was a difficult day for his Mitchelton-Scott team as Esteban Chaves dropped out of contention. Slovenian rider Matej Mohoric of the BahrainMerida team edged Nico Denz of AG2R in a two-man sprint to win the stage.
Rugby: World Rugby has disqualified Romania from the 2019 World Cup for fielding ineligible players and given its place to Russia.
Tennis: Rapidly rising Canadian Denis Shapovalov overcame a slow start in a 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5) victory over 15th-seeded Tomas Berdych in the first round of the Italian Open in Rome.
Former top-20 player Alize Cornet has been cleared of a doping charge by an independent tribunal.