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Beard faces a felony domestic family violence charge stemming from a Dec. 12 incident involving his fiancée. His contract with the Longhorns includes a provision he could be fired for cause if he was charged with a felony.

Beard was hired by UT in 2021. The university paid $4 million to buy out his contract at Texas Tech University. He was one of UT’s highest-paid employees.

The school announced the decision on Thursday following an assault charge in December.

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The Associated Press state rankings in boys and girls basketball.

The Georgia Bulldogs defeated the No. 20 Auburn Tigers in their SEC opener

PHILADELPHIA — Bo Kimble was about to tune in Monday night to the Bengals-Bills game when he received a phone call from Albert Gersten, a booster from Kimble’s basketball days at Loyola Marymount.

On this day, former Boston Celtics guard and Rhodes scholar George Munroe was born, and Pistol Pete left us unexpectedly.

CHICAGO — Te’Jaan Ali was playing basketball in a school gym on the South Side of Chicago when he started feeling hot. The heat in the gym — which didn’t have air conditioning — was likely just as bad as the sweltering temperatures outside, which reached 90 degrees on July…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Missouri basketball program had never beaten three straight nationally ranked opponents before coming to Arkansas this week — and still hasn’t. The No. 20 Tigers’ quest to vanquish three consecutive ranked foes collapsed Wednesday under a smothering red wave at Bud Walton Arena, where No. 13…

The ESPN personality did not hold back his thoughts on the “butt-ugly basketball” game.