Dana Altman has been rigorously searching for a new point guard in the transfer portal, but he happened to land an important commitment from a talented big man out of the SEC.Alabama forward Taylor Bol Bowen announced his decision to transfer to the Oregon Ducks on Wednesday, On3's Joe Tipton reports. The 6-foot-10 forward becomes the biggest player on Oregon's roster and comes to Eugene with experience in two of the best conferences in the country, having spent two seasons at Florida State before transferring to the Crimson Tide. Bol Bowen will spend his senior season with the Ducks.NEWS: Alabama transfer forward Taylor Bol Bowen has committed to Oregon, his agency @RocNationSports told @On3.The 6-10 junior averaged 6.3 points and 4.2 rebounds per game this season. Began his career at Florida State.https://t.co/uaJihrFCdipic.twitter.com/ooLiEvhNLl Joe Tipton (@JoeTipton) April 22, 2026Bol Bowen appeared in 30 games for Alabama last season, which included 11 starts. He averaged 6.3 points, 4.2 rebounds and one block per game while shooting 41.2% from the field and 30.2% from 3-point range. As a sophomore with the Seminoles, Bol Bowen started 27 games and was a force around the rim, averaging 8.0 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game while shooting 47.7% from the floor and 41.4% from 3-point land.The Ducks needed some more size in the frontcourt, but Bol Bowen also provides a ton of athleticism for such a large player. He runs the floor well and can alter shots enough to stretch opposing offenses outside the painted area. Altman won't be able to rely on him offensively as much as he did with Nate Bittle, but there are still some promising traits as an underneath scorer and a decent shot from range.Bol Bowen was a key role player off the bench for Alabama during their run to the Sweet Sixteen, despite playing through injuries. Given the uncertainty around Oregon's roster, Bol Bowen could quickly establish himself as a starter once again in Eugene. He also brings plenty of big-game experience to a roster filled with young talent and transfers from smaller programs.Altman also brought in Kentucky transfer guard Jasper Johnson last week, giving the Ducks two SEC transfers this offseason. While the Ducks have clearly been looking for scoring options in the portal, Bol Bowen still fits Altman's desire for big man versatility and could be one of Oregon's best defenders underneath next season.Contact/Follow@Ducks_Wireon X (formerly Twitter) and like our page onFacebookto follow ongoing coverage of Oregon Ducks news, notes, and opinions.This article originally appeared on Ducks Wire: Alabama transfer F Taylor Bol Bowen commits to Oregon Ducks

Chelsea have sacked head coach Liam Rosenior following the club's damaging defeat to Brighton on Tuesday.

The St. Louis Cardinals MLB team from St. Louis, Mo., is opposing a trademark application the Hamilton Cardinals Canadian Baseball League team filed before the Canadian Intellectual Property Office in 2023. The American team says the Canadian team is taking advantage of its "reputation and goodwill." The Hamilton team says it disagrees and will continue using its name and logo this season.

The Blues hierarchy have acted after a run of five successive defeats in the Premier League, with Rosenior's side failing to score in each of them.

The Kansas City Royals are moving from their longtime home at Kauffman Stadium to the downtown Crown Center area, partnering with Hallmark Cards on a $3 billion project that includes a mixed-used development with a new ballpark as its centerpiece.Royals owner John Sherman was joined by Hallmark chairman Don Hall Jr., Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe and Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, along with other local and state dignitaries, in making the announcement Wednesday near Hallmark headquarters.While the finalized master plan has yet to be complete, Sherman said the $1.9 billion stadium would break ground next year in the middle of Crown Center as part of the first phase of an 85-acre project. Two-thirds of the funding will come from private sources and the remaining one-third from public partners, including money earmarked by the state for stadium projects.This is a partnership between two treasured Kansas City institutions, Sherman said. We are committed to creating a vision which honors our history, the rich past of both organizations, while reinvigorating and reimagining what our future can be together.The announcement came about a week after Kansas City officials passed an ordinance authorizing City Manager Mario Vasquez to negotiate a $600 million deal to help the Royals move downtown. Most believed the stadium would sit on Washington Square Park, which is next to Union Station, but it will instead be located just south of it, with the park featured in the development.Hallmark intends to build a new headquarters in the area, which is connected by a streetcar to the Power & Light District, where the T-Mobile Center serves as its anchor. That part of downtown Kansas City will provide the backdrop beyond the outfield fence.Officials touted the availability of public parking already in the area and convenient traffic flow from nearby highways.Missouri's contribution comes from a law enacted last year that authorized bonds covering up to 50% of the cost of new or renovated stadiums in the state, plus up to $50 million of tax credits for each stadium and unspecified aid from local governments.We think it's a great investment for our Missouri taxpayers, because this does not affect existing programs, Kehoe said. The ripple effect from this facility will truly be far-reaching into rural Missouri and other parts of the state.The Royals have insisted they would leave Kauffman Stadium when their lease expires at the Truman Sports Complex in 2031, and the intention of Sherman ever since purchasing the club in 2019 was to build a downtown ballpark as its replacement.Yet reaching Wednesday's announcement did not come without plenty of pitfalls.The biggest stumbling block came in April 2024, when the Chiefs joined the Royals in a plan to renovate Arrowhead Stadium and replace Kauffman Stadium. The plan hinged on the extension of a sales tax that had been paying for stadium upkeep, and voters in Jackson County, Missouri, overwhelmingly rejected the proposal, forcing the franchises to go their own way.The legislature in neighboring Kansas aggressively pursued the Chiefs, committing last December to issuing $2.4 billion in bonds to cover 60% of the cost of a new $3 billion domed stadium in Kansas City, Kansas. The NFL franchise ultimately decided to move across the state line, where it also will build a new training facility in the nearby suburb of Olathe, Kansas.Officials in Kansas briefly pursued the Royals, too, but their interest in the MLB franchise had always been lukewarm.The Royals had been weighing several options in recent months. But they ultimately rejected an option in the suburb of Overland Park, Kansas, and allowed a deadline to pass for a site north of downtown and across the Missouri River in Clay County, Missouri.Economists have long concluded that subsidizing stadiums isnt worth the cost for communities because the venues pull economic activity away from other parts of the area, rather than expanding the overall economy. Yet states and cities continually provide money to renovate stadiums or build new ones 49 of the 60 used by MLB or NFL teams are publicly owned or sit on public land.One of the stadiums that Sherman has cited as an example of what's possible in Kansas City is Truist Park in Atlanta.The stadium was a public-private partnership in which the Cobb-Marietta Coliseum & Exhibit Hall Authority issued up to $397 million in bonds, the county raised millions more from transportation taxes and businesses added millions in cash. The Braves contributed the remaining money for the park and The Battery, a mixed-used development, with a total cost of more than $1.1 billion.There are many great ballpark neighborhoods in Major League Baseball, Sherman said, but this is a bigger project with more land in downtown and in the heart of the city. We are bringing a modern, state-of-the-art ballpark experience to our fans, closer to our public transportation and where more people work and live.___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/mlb

The Kansas City Royals are moving from their longtime home at Kauffman Stadium to the downtown Crown Center area, partnering with Hallmark Cards on a $3 billion project that includes a mixed-used development with a new ballpark as its centerpiece.Royals owner John Sherman was joined by Hallmark chairman Don Hall Jr., Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe and Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, along with other local and state dignitaries, in making the announcement Wednesday near Hallmark headquarters.While the finalized master plan has yet to be complete, Sherman said the $1.9 billion stadium would break ground next year in the middle of Crown Center as part of the first phase of an 85-acre project. Two-thirds of the funding will come from private sources and the remaining one-third from public partners, including money earmarked by the state for stadium projects.This is a partnership between two treasured Kansas City institutions, Sherman said. We are committed to creating a vision which honors our history, the rich past of both organizations, while reinvigorating and reimagining what our future can be together.The announcement came about a week after Kansas City officials passed an ordinance authorizing City Manager Mario Vasquez to negotiate a $600 million deal to help the Royals move downtown. Most believed the stadium would sit on Washington Square Park, which is next to Union Station, but it will instead be located just south of it, with the park featured in the development.Hallmark intends to build a new headquarters in the area, which is connected by a streetcar to the Power & Light District, where the T-Mobile Center serves as its anchor. That part of downtown Kansas City will provide the backdrop beyond the outfield fence.Officials touted the availability of public parking already in the area and convenient traffic flow from nearby highways.Missouri's contribution comes from a law enacted last year that authorized bonds covering up to 50% of the cost of new or renovated stadiums in the state, plus up to $50 million of tax credits for each stadium and unspecified aid from local governments.We think it's a great investment for our Missouri taxpayers, because this does not affect existing programs, Kehoe said. The ripple effect from this facility will truly be far-reaching into rural Missouri and other parts of the state.The Royals have insisted they would leave Kauffman Stadium when their lease expires at the Truman Sports Complex in 2031, and the intention of Sherman ever since purchasing the club in 2019 was to build a downtown ballpark as its replacement.Yet reaching Wednesday's announcement did not come without plenty of pitfalls.The biggest stumbling block came in April 2024, when the Chiefs joined the Royals in a plan to renovate Arrowhead Stadium and replace Kauffman Stadium. The plan hinged on the extension of a sales tax that had been paying for stadium upkeep, and voters in Jackson County, Missouri, overwhelmingly rejected the proposal, forcing the franchises to go their own way.The legislature in neighboring Kansas aggressively pursued the Chiefs, committing last December to issuing $2.4 billion in bonds to cover 60% of the cost of a new $3 billion domed stadium in Kansas City, Kansas. The NFL franchise ultimately decided to move across the state line, where it also will build a new training facility in the nearby suburb of Olathe, Kansas.Officials in Kansas briefly pursued the Royals, too, but their interest in the MLB franchise had always been lukewarm.The Royals had been weighing several options in recent months. But they ultimately rejected an option in the suburb of Overland Park, Kansas, and allowed a deadline to pass for a site north of downtown and across the Missouri River in Clay County, Missouri.Economists have long concluded that subsidizing stadiums isnt worth the cost for communities because the venues pull economic activity away from other parts of the area, rather than expanding the overall economy. Yet states and cities continually provide money to renovate stadiums or build new ones 49 of the 60 used by MLB or NFL teams are publicly owned or sit on public land.One of the stadiums that Sherman has cited as an example of what's possible in Kansas City is Truist Park in Atlanta.The stadium was a public-private partnership in which the Cobb-Marietta Coliseum & Exhibit Hall Authority issued up to $397 million in bonds, the county raised millions more from transportation taxes and businesses added millions in cash. The Braves contributed the remaining money for the park and The Battery, a mixed-used development, with a total cost of more than $1.1 billion.There are many great ballpark neighborhoods in Major League Baseball, Sherman said, but this is a bigger project with more land in downtown and in the heart of the city. We are bringing a modern, state-of-the-art ballpark experience to our fans, closer to our public transportation and where more people work and live.___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/mlb

A devoted Scotland supporter has completed half of his epic 3,000-mile trek across the United States, wearing a kilt throughout the gruelling journey and is dreaming of a "nice cold pint" at the end. Craig Ferguson, 22, from Paisley, hit the 1,500-mile milestone in Kansas yesterday after departing from Santa Monica pier in Los Angeles on February 22.The young fan left his position at Nando's to pursue what he hopes will make him the first person to traverse America on foot while donning traditional Scottish attire.His destination is Boston, Massachusetts, where he intends to arrive before Scotland face Haiti in their opening World Cup fixture.TRENDINGStoriesVideosYour Say"It's a huge milestone to be honest," Mr Ferguson said. "It's been extremely difficult getting to here."The fundraising effort aims to generate 1million for Scottish Action for Mental Health, with donations currently sitting just below 112,000.Mr Ferguson's route has taken him through punishing weather conditions over more than 50 days of walking.Kansas proved particularly dramatic, with him witnessing a tornado for the first time and having to take evasive action."You see a lot of strange things walking across any country," he said. "Seeing a tornado coming through Kansas and trying to avoid it was a strange one."Despite the hardships, encounters with Americans along the way have lifted his spirits."In America, I've met a few characters, and for the most part people have been so friendly and supportive and it's these interactions along the way that continue to motivate me and keep me going," Mr Ferguson explained.The challenge would not have been feasible without his childhood companion Matthew Allan, who has accompanied him throughout the expedition.LATEST DEVELOPMENTSBritish astronomer who helped unlock the secrets of the stars set to be honoured with English Heritage blue plaqueHigh street to be brought back to life by 'micro-pub' celebrating local heritageBritain's 'oldest WW2 veteran' who was awarded Distinguished Service Cross dies aged 109Mr Allan, whom Mr Ferguson met on their first day at primary school, has been operating a support vehicle providing sustenance, hydration and moral support when needed most."Matt asked me at the end of last year, if Scotland qualify, would I do another walking challenge like the one I did in Munich," Mr Ferguson said."He dropped everything, quit his job, and joined me on this challenge of a lifetime. It wouldn't be possible without him."This is not Mr Ferguson's first endurance feat for charity. In 2024, he completed a walk from Glasgow to Munich to coincide with the European Championships, raising awareness for men's mental health.Mr Ferguson's determination stems from his passion for experiencing the World Cup as an ordinary supporter once his walking is complete."As soon as I arrive at the end goal, I switch from being a walker to a Scotland fan who's there to witness the World Cup," he said."Other than that, the thought of a nice cold pint at the end, and the promise Ive made myself that Im going to be the first man in history to walk the entire length of America in a kilt."It's not just me I'm doing this for, it's every person that buys into it and donates to it, I wouldn't want to let anyone down," he added.Regarding Scotland's tournament prospects, Mr Ferguson remains bullish: "I feel we've finally got that big major tournament monkey off our backs now, I'm confident we can kick on."Those wishing to support the Tartan Trek can go to the website and donate. Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter

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L'entraneur anglais Liam Rosenior a t remerci par les Blues, trois mois et demi aprs son arrive. Le club l'a annonc ce mercredi 22 avril dans un communiqu.