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Former NFL player Boo Williams poses for a portrait outside of his home in Picayune, Miss., Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. Williams needs surgery, medicine and doctors to make the pain subside from injuries he endured during his football career. But he can't afford any of it. The 44-year-old was recently awarded $5,000 a month by the NFL's disability benefit plan. But Williams said the plan and the league have repeatedly mishandled his claims and should really have paid him $500,000 or more over the past 14 years. (AP Photo/Christiana Botic)

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NFL disability program leaves retired Saints tight end hurting and angry
By EDDIE PELLS - AP National Writer
Wed,11/22/23-12:27AM , 72 Reads
Boo Williams wakes up each morning not knowing how the pain will hit. It could be debilitating headaches that make it impossible to get out of bed. Sometimes the pain shoots down his neck. Through all of it, he's angry.
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People work to remove flowers from the memorial at the Rock in honor of three students killed at Michigan State University on March 2, 2023, in East Lansing, Mich. At Michigan State, sports were suspended after gun violence on campus left three students dead. An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen schools in the NCAA tournaments shows a wide range of policies that govern guns at those schools and uneven efforts to regulate them. (Nick King/Lansing State Journal via AP, File)

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Gun laws, campus policies perplex college sports programs
By EDDIE PELLS - AP National Writer
Mon,03/13/23-11:17AM , 557 Reads
At Alabama, one of the team's best players allegedly delivered a gun that was used in a fatal shooting. At New Mexico State, a player avoided charges for shooting and killing a student in what he said was self-defense, even though he was carrying a gun in violation of school rules.
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Sydney McLaughlin, of the United States, wins the final of the women's 400-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships on July 22, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. World-record setters McLaughlin-Levrone and Armand "Mondo" Duplantis were named World Athletes of the Year on by track's international governing body Monday, Dec. 5, adding yet another achievement to a remarkable 2022 for both athletes. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

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McLaughlin-Levrone, Duplantis named World Athletes of Year
By EDDIE PELLS - AP National Writer
Mon,12/05/22-5:38PM , 97 Reads
World-record setters Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Mondo Duplantis were named Athletes of the Year by World Athletics on Monday, adding more accolades to a remarkable 2022 for both athletes.
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North Carolina guard Caleb Love, right, reacts to a loss as Kansas' Jalen Wilson (10) celebrates after a college basketball game in the finals of the Men's Final Four NCAA tournament, Monday, April 4, 2022, in New Orleans. Kansas won 72-69. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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Kansas comes back, wins NCAA title 3 years in the making
By EDDIE PELLS - AP National Writer
Tue,04/05/22-2:20AM , 1,317 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Great Kansas Comeback, as it will forever be known in the history books, is about more than just one stifling, scintillating 20-minute stretch of Jayhawks basketball.
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