


Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel, Colorado’s Travis Hunter, Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty and Miami’s Cam Ward were announced on Monday night as the 2024 Heisman Trophy finalists.
The Heisman has been given to the nation’s most outstanding college football player since 1935. This year’s winner will be announced Saturday in New York.
The top four top vote-getters determined by more than 900 voters are selected as finalists. The voting panel includes members of the media and former Heisman winners.
Baseball: Closer Jordan Romano, 31, and the Phillies agreed to a one-year contract, ESPN reported. Romano, 31, was nontendered by the Blue Jays.
College basketball: Tennessee (8-0) is the new No. 1 men’s team after a massive shakeup in the AP Top 25. The Vols received 58 first-place votes from a 62-person media panel to reach No. 1 for the first time since the 2018-19 season. Tennessee climbed two spots from last week after Kansas lost twice and Auburn fell to No. 4 Duke. The Tigers remained No. 2 and received three first-place votes. No. 3 Iowa State had one first-place vote and climbed three places from last week for its highest ranking since 1956-57. Kentucky rounded out the top five. Only two teams — Auburn and No. 12 Oregon — remained in the same poll spots they were a week ago and the volatility saw five teams jump into the rankings. Kansas had been No. 1 since the preseason poll before losing to 76-63 to Creighton and 76-67 to rival Missouri. The losses dropped the Jayhawks to No. 10. Two-time reigning national champ UConn nearly dropped out of the poll last week following 0-for-3 run in Maui. The Huskies bounced back nicely last week, beating Baylor and Texas to move up seven spots in this week’s poll to No. 18. ... Tennessee is back in the women’s Top 25 at No. 19, ending the school’s longest drought in the 48-year history of the poll. The Lady Vols (7-0) hadn’t been ranked since Nov. 27, 2023, a span of 22 polls.
NFL: Panthers rookie RB Jonathon Brooks tore the ACL in his right knee — for the second time in 13 months — in Sunday’s loss to the Eagles.