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The NFL Network and Conference USA have agreed to a four-year partnership that will put 10 of the league's Saturday football games on the network each season.

Auburn against Oregon at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Aug. 31 will be the first ABC Saturday Night Football game of the season.

The XFL has reached multiyear agreements with ESPN and Fox Sports to broadcast its games. The league's season will start Feb. 8, the weekend after the Super Bowl.

The Arena Football League has reached an agreement with ESPN to broadcast its games for the rest of the season. The agreement with ESPN will help the league grow.

Ties are back at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. To the relief of many participants, bee organizers have gotten rid of the written tests.

The league said Monday that more than 600,000 attended over the three days in Nashville, easily eclipsing the 250,000 that came to watch two years ago in Philadelphia.

The Seattle Seahawks finally stopped the free agency hemorrhaging by inking linebacker K.J. Wright

Clemson's victory over Alabama in the College Football Playoff drew a 14.6 overnight rating for ESPN, the lowest-rated title game in the 5-year-old postseason system.

Players can get a more sleep. ESPN is moving up the starting time of the nationally televised game by one hour, with the first pitch planned for shortly after 7 p.m.

Jayson Stark won the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for contributions to baseball writing. He will be honored and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.