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DETROIT >> Northern Illinois is hoping to re-establish its recent run of Mid-American Conference dominance with a return to the Motor City in November.For Ohio, the championship history is more in the distant past.The two teams are the divisional favorites in the media's preseason poll released Tuesday, when the MAC held its media day at Ford Field in Detroit.

CHICAGO >> Ohio State coach Urban Meyer has a saying he uses with his program: Event + Response (equals) Outcome.The outcome this time was the dismissal of a longtime assistant.Meyer is facing questions about his relationship with former receivers coach Zach Smith, who was fired Monday after an Ohio court granted a domestic violence protective order to Smith's ex-wife last week.

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland >> The British Open bustled with excitement as the occasion began to unfold, with mobile phones zooming in to capture the moment from the best angle available.This wasn't on the golf course. It was in the media center.The subject was a large, yellow leaderboard at the front of the room that showed Tiger Woods alone at the top in the final round.

ROCHESTER, Mich. >> Oakland University has hired Steven Waterfield as its new athletic director.The school announced the move Tuesday. Waterfield arrives after serving as an executive associate AD at Nebraska.Waterfield replaces Jeff Konya, who left in February for Northeastern."I am honored and humbled to join the Oakland University family, and I am incredibly grateful to President (Ora Hirsch) Pescovitz for her confidence in me," Waterfield said in a statement.

Senators questioned the sincerity of reforms at the U.S. Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University in the wake of sex-abuse scandals - using legal papers, emails and accounts of conversations to portray organizations that still don't fully grasp the pain they inflicted.At a hearing Tuesday in Washington, Democratic Sen.

BAGNERES-DE-LUCHON, France >> Tear gas in riders' eyes. A farmers' protest blocking the road. Two key crashes on dangerous descents.The only thing lacking from the wild 16th stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday was a shakeup in the overall standings.Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe took advantage of his downhill skills to win the first of three mountainous legs in the Pyrenees, which was briefly interrupted when police used tear gas to disperse a farmers' protest that had blocked the road with bales of hay.

IRVINE >> Two years to the day the Tokyo Olympics open, Katie Ledecky is swimming as fast as ever, Caeleb Dressel is heralded as a potential Michael Phelps and Missy Franklin is attempting a comeback.As for Ryan Lochte, he's banned again.Ledecky is entered in five events at this week's U.

The father of disgraced trash hauler Chuck Rizzo and a former Macomb County engineer were each sentenced Tuesday to serve 90 days in prison for their respective parts in the Macomb County public corruption scandal.U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland also ordered Charles Rizzo Sr. to pay a $10,000 fine and serve two years of supervised release once he is freed.

How do you articulate the unimaginable?That had to be one of Tony Smith's first tasks.Smith was set as the defensive coordinator at Ford High School this fall. His responsibilities were going to dwell on the snarling side of the line of scrimmage.That was what the X's and O's blueprint said anyway.

The Chesterfield Township Police Department is gearing up for another session of its Citizens' Police Academy.The 12-week academy, which provides community members with a hands-on learning environment in the law enforcement profession, is scheduled to run from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays from Sept.