About a Zoom video interview, Christopher “CJ” Wallace, Jr. keeps his father’s jersey on which Wallace and the entire computer screen almost endured. “It’s a 5XXL,” Wallace says Billboard. On the back of the sweater, ‘POPPA’ is embroidered in bright yellow letters against the hunter green fabric. The young entrepreneur …

UAB freshman linebacker Allen Merrick has died after suffering a gunshot wound during a visit to his home on Thursday. Police in Gadsden, Alabama, call the incident a random shooting. Merrick died Friday morning at UAB Hospital. He was 19 years old. Blazers coach Bill Clark issued a statement Thursday …

Update, 12:15 p.m. Mike Norvell had to talk a lot more about football today after a hectic day of media availability yesterday. The ‘Noles head coach mentioned that today was another big day of situation resources for her, before her first official contraction at Doak Campbell Stadium was tomorrow night. …

When the MLB trading date on August 31 arrives soon, Red Sox president Sam Kennedy did not consider a player “untouchable,” he said Thursday while appearing on WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Show.” “You look at this team, and we still have a really young group of core players that you …

Watch Now: Thursday Night NBA Recap (7:11) Miami Heat forward Derrick Jones Jr. needed to be taken off of the floor of Friday’s game against the Indiana Pacers after a hard fall. The apparent injury came after a collision with Pacers center Goga Bitadze. Jones was chasing Doug McDermott around …