The Auburn University gymnast who suffered career-ending injuries to both knees says her goals now include walking down the aisle at her upcoming wedding. Samantha Cerio, an aerospace engineering major from North Carolina, also is preparing to graduate and has accepted a job with Boeing as a structural design analysis engineer. Cerio, 22, discussed her future plans in an interview…
A college gymnast is asking social media to stop sharing the video of her devastating leg injuries because “my pain is not your entertainment.” Auburn senior Samantha Cerio wrote on Twitter Wednesday that seeing her “knees bent unnaturally in real life was horrible enough,” but she says continuing to see the video and photos because people feel entitled to repost…
An average of 19.6 million people watched as Virginia beat Texas Tech in the NCAA Tournament championship game, an increase of 23% over last year. The audience peaked at 23.5 million during overtime Monday night, according to Nielsen and CBS. Last year’s championship game between Villanova and Michigan averaged 16.5 million on TBS, TNT and TruTV. The news was not…
Alabama and Oklahoma have scheduled a home-and-home football series – but fans will have to wait awhile. The schools announced Tuesday that they’ll meet on Sept. 11, 2032 in Norman, Oklahoma. They’re scheduled to play again the following season in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on Sept. 10. The Sooners and Crimson Tide have met six times, including Alabama’s 45-34 win in the…
Auburn says a gymnast who suffered devastating leg injuries during an NCAA regional semifinal is undergoing surgery. A statement released by Auburn gymnastics coach Jeff Graba says senior Samantha Cerio suffered two dislocated knees during the competition held Friday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Graba says Dr. James Andrews will operate on the athlete on Monday for injuries that include multiple…
Alabama has hired Nate Oats, who led Buffalo to three NCAA Tournaments in four seasons, as its new men’s basketball coach. Crimson Tide athletic director Greg Byrne announced the hiring Wednesday, three days after parting ways with Avery Johnson. Oats was the Mid-American Conference coach of the year each of the past two seasons. He went 96-43 with the Bulls…
Courtesy of Montgomery Biscuits Twitter Rookie Brandon Lowe, who made his big league debut last August, has agreed to a $24 million, six-year contract with the Tampa Bay Rays. Lowe’s deal, announced Wednesday, includes club options for 2025 and 2026 with escalators that could make the agreement worth $49 million over eight seasons. The 24-year-old infielder and outfielder has just…
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Chuck Connors Person, a former men’s basketball coach at Auburn University, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court today to receiving approximately $91,500 in cash bribes from athlete advisers in exchange for using his influence over Auburn basketball players to retain the services of…
In its 34th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company today announced Trendon Watford of Mountain Brook High School as its 2018-19 Gatorade Alabama Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Watford is the first Gatorade Alabama Boys Basketball Player of the Year to be chosen from Mountain Brook High School. The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence,…
Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid have settled collusion lawsuits against the NFL. In a three-sentence statement released Friday, the NFL said: “For the past several months, counsel for Mr. Kaepernick and Mr. Reid have engaged in an ongoing dialogue with representatives of the NFL. As a result of those discussions, the parties have decided to resolve the pending grievances. The…
