08:03 AM ET 06.18 | Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Miles Austin has had injury problems throughout the past couple of years in the league. Most recently it was a hamstring injury that slowed down the receiver and now the team is doing what they can to make sure he will be ready for the end of the season. According to reports, Austin has been given days off during the team OTAs and minicamps in an effort to give him all of the rest he needs in order to be there when the team needs him most down the stretch.

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12:19 PM ET 06.18 | Backup linebacker Torey Boozer has been dismissed from the Missouri football team. Boozer was arrested back in October of 2012 on charges of marijuana possession along with teammates Dorial Green-Beckham and Levi Copelin after the three were caught smoking marijuana on campus. Green-Beckham and Copelin remain on the team.

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07:14 AM ET 06.18 | Brian Cashman has a full plate these days, one that includes leaning toward placing Mark Teixeira on the DL and renewed concern over Kevin Youkilis. [Cashman] hadn't heard anything about [Youkilis'] visit to a back specialist when he spoke with reporters on a conference call, but it was clear the general manager was concerned about the state of his third baseman's balky back. "Back issues usually don't get better," Cashman said. "They can, but they're very debilitating and hard to get a handle on. It's definitely a concern. As of right now, I'm not planning on him until they tell me I can plan on him." Youkilis was placed on the disabled list Friday with a lumbar strain after playing all 18 innings of Thursday's marathon loss in Oakland. He woke up with numbness in his foot and calf.

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02:59 PM ET 06.18 | The obvious end to the Boston Celtics-Los Angeles Clippers trade talks happened and there appears to no longer be any chance that Doc Rivers is headed to the Clippers to assume head coaching duties. But just because he's not heading to Los Angeles does not mean he's coming back to Boston. Danny Ainge's promise from last month seems about as reliable and useful as a weather report on Mars, and Rivers' future with the Celtics is still up in the air and seems like it will be for a while. This isn't totally surprising as even before basketball fans everywhere got weak in the knees over the rumor Rivers was headed to Los Angeles, he was displaying doubt about returning to the Celtics anyway. The fact that trade talks with the Clippers have fallen apart, and Boston seemed ready to replace Rivers with Lawrence Frank, Rivers might feel even more comfortable stepping away for a year to relax and enjoy life a little before coming back to coaching.

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02:59 PM ET 06.18 | The Detroit Red Wings fell short of making it the Stanley Cup this year but they made a move to ensure they remain competitive. Detroit and star forward Pavel Datsyuk announced a three-year, $23-million contract extension that keeps the Wings forward in Detroit until at least the 2016-17 season. It's a potentially risky move for the Red Wings as Datsyuk will be 35 this upcoming season and even if he retires the Wings will be on the hook for his salary cap hit for each of the remaining years on his new deal. The same goes for if Datsyuk is injured in the line of duty and has to miss significant portions of a season. The hope is that he'll continue to bring that with this new extension and Red Wings fans have every reason in the world to have faith that he will.

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04:34 PM ET 06.18 | Stefan Struve wants to face MMA legend Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira when he is able to return to action later this year. "A fight I always wanted to have is a fight with Big Nog," Struve said. "I would still love to have that fight. I think it makes a lot of sense right now since we're both coming off a loss. That's definitely a fight I would love to have around then."

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05:19 AM ET 06.16 | There probably isn't an amateur golfer in the country who doesn't dream of competing in the U.S. Open or the U.S. Women's Open. Only occasionally, however, does an amateur win the Open, regarded by players and fans alike as golf's ultimate mental and physical challenge. Francis Ouimet did it in 1913. Jerome Travers did it in 1915. Chick Evans did it in 1916. Bobby Jones did it in 1923, 1926, 1929, and 1930. And Catherine Lacoste did it in 1967. Can Michael Kim do it this year? The amateurs who qualify to play against golf's Goliaths face an uphill climb at the Open, which is as much a test of mental stamina as it is a contest of technical skill. Just getting to the Open entails an endurance test. This year 10 amateurs qualified to enter the field by advancing from one of 111, 18-hole stroke play, local qualifiers to one of 13 sectional qualifiers -- 36 holes of stroke play in a single day -- and paying the $150 entry fee. Of the 10 who teed off Thursday, four survived the cut and will play the final round on Sunday.

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02:59 PM ET 06.18 | Greg Biffle's win of the Quicken Loans 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich., on Sunday not only marked the driver's first win of the season and the 13th Cup-level victory at MIS for Roush Fenway Racing, it was the 1,000 victory for Ford across the three national levels of NASCAR -- Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck. Trevor Bayne claimed NASCAR win 999 just a week prior in the Pioneer 250 Nationwide Series race at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. Bayne's Iowa win also marked the 200th win for Ford, specifically, in the Nationwide Series. The win total includes 100 from Lincoln-Mercury and 900 from various Ford models including the current model, Fusion, and others like Taurus and Thunderbird. A Lincoln took the the checkered flag in the first NASCAR-sanctioned top-tier NASCAR race in June 19, 1949, in Charlotte, N.C. It was driven by Jim Roper. The first victory for the Ford brand came in 1950, courtesy of Jimmy Florian at Dayton (Ohio) Speedway.

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08:06 AM ET 06.18 | Chelsea midfielder Kevin De Bruyne received a taste of Bundesliga soccer last season, as Chelsea loaned him out to Werder Bremen. According to Borussia Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc, De Bryune would like to join the second-best team in the Bundesliga and the Champions League runner-ups. Dortmund is interested in acquiring De Bruyne from Chelsea, and Zorc knows that De Bruyne "is wanting to make a transfer" to the elite German squad. Whether or not they can pry the young midfielder from other teams is another question, but it is positive news for Dortmund that the team has more than piqued De Bruyne's interest.

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10:02 AM ET 05.23 | FOX Sports is trying to put together an impressive staff to fill up the shows on their 24/7 sports network FOX Sports 1, hoping to compete with ESPN, and on Wednesday we learned a big name that will be joining the network. According to a SportsIllustrated.com report, FOX Sports has agreed to hire former tennis star Andy Roddick as a co-host for the three-hour show FOX Sports Live. The show feature Roddick and Charissa Thompson, who will be leaving ESPN, as the co-hosts. Roddick's big personality could do well in the co-hosting gig, but it will be interesting to see if he has a wide grasp of sports.

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