College Football
Former Tennessee quarterback Kaidon Salter is transferring to Liberty. Salter was kicked off the team by head coach Josh Heupel after two off the field incidents. He got suspended for spring football after he was arrested for an incident on the UT campus in March. Salter came to Knoxville as a four-star QB out of Cedar Hill, Texas.
NFL
The Washington Football Team’s new name will be revealed in early 2022, and they won’t be called the Warriors. Team president Jason Wright said the new team name and logo will not have “linkage to Native American imagery.” Wright told the Washington Post that the traditional burgundy and gold colors will remain. The team changed its name last July.
NHL
The NHL’s Stanley Cup is being sent to Canada for repairs after it was damaged. The Tampa Bay Lightning held a boat parade Monday on Hillsborough River, though their championship trophy didn’t make it. The Cup was dented during the parade and festivities, later being loaded into a car and taken away. There is no official word on how it was damaged.
Golf
Zach Johnson is among several golfers withdrawing from this year’s Open Championship after testing positive for COVID-19. The Iowa native won the Open in 2015. Meantime, the PGA Tour announced Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama is out of the tournament after testing positive for Covid earlier this month.
Olympics
The U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team has lost back-to-back exhibition games for the first time since pros joined the roster in 1992. Australia upset the Americans 91-to-83 Monday in Las Vegas to get the team off to a 0-and-2 start. They lost to Nigeria over the weekend. Team USA had been 54-and-2 in exhibition games since pros joined the roster.