Meyer rejoining Fox’s ‘Big Noon’
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Urban Meyer is returning to Fox’s “Big Noon Saturday” college football pregame show after his NFL coaching career lasted less than one full season.
Fox announced Friday that Meyer would rejoin the show that he was part of in its first two seasons.
Mac Jones completed a 45-yard pass to set up a touchdown in his first preseason action, Tristian Vizcaino hit a 51-yard, go-ahead field goal in the fourth quarter, and the host New England Patriots beat the Carolina Panthers 20-10 . ... Jordan Love completed 12 of 24 passes for 113 yards and a touchdown to lead the host Green Bay Packers to a 20-10 preseason win over the New Orleans Saints.
Clippers reveal preseason slate
The Clippers will play four preseason games, including two in Seattle, to begin their 2022-23 season.
Previously, the team had announced only one game of its preseason slate: a matchup against Portland in Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena on Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. To begin their stay in Seattle, the Clippers also will face Maccabi Ra’anana of Israel on Sept. 30. The Clippers finish their preseason with games Oct. 9 against Minnesota at Crypto.com Arena, at 7:30 p.m., and Oct. 12 against Denver at Ontario’s Toyota Arena, the home of the team’s G League affiliate.
— Andrew Greif
Dylan Garand made 31 saves, Kent Johnson had a goal and two assists and Canada beat the Czech Republic 5-2 to advance to the world junior hockey championship game on Saturday in Edmonton, Canada. The hosts will face Finland, which got a goal from Kasper Puutio in a 1-0 win over Sweden in the other semifinal.
In Mason, Ohio, topranked Daniil Medvedev
reached the Western & Southern Open semifinals as he prepares for his U.S. Open title defense, beating 11th-seeded Taylor Fritz 7-6 (1), 6-3. Medvedev will face No. 7 Stefanos Tsitsipas,
who outlasted John Isner
7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-3. On the women’s side, unseeded American Madison Keys reached the semifinals with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Elena Rybakina.
Top-seeded men Theo Brunner and Chaim Shalk and top-seeded women Sarah Sponcil and Terese Cannon — both champions of last month’s Hermosa Beach Open — won their first two matches in the AVP Manhattan Beach Open that runs through Sunday.
Shilese Jones grabbed the lead at the U.S. gymnastics championships in Tampa, Fla., riding a dynamic bars routine to post an all-around total of 57.200. Konnor McClain is second at 56.400 and UCLA’s Jordan Chiles, an Olympic silver medalist with the U.S. team in Tokyo last year, is third with a 56.150.
In Madison, Ill., IndyCar points leader Will Power won the pole for the Saturday night race with a lap of 183.089 mph . ... Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves and Meyer Shank Racing agreed on a one-year extension that will bring Castroneves back for a 26th full IndyCar season.
Primoz Roglic opened his quest to win an unprecedented fourth straight Spanish Vuelta title when his Jumbo-Visma team won the opening team time trial in Utrecht, Netherlands.