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The New Orleans Saints are planning to practice this week at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, after evacuating their home market due to the threat of Hurricane Ida, a person with knowledge of the decision said. The Category 4 storm is one of the strongest to ever make landfall in the United States, and the Saints are scheduled to open their regular-season schedule at home on Sept. 12. (The Associated Press) NASCAR Cup Series driver Kurt Busch will move from Chip Ganassi Racing to 23XI Racing for the 2022 season after signing a multiyear deal with the first-year race team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin. 23XI Racing announced Busch will drive the No. 45 car with Monster Energy remaining his primary sponsor, and Hamlin said the team is in the final stages of securing a charter for the team's second car, which will join the No. 23 driven by Bubba Wallace. (RACER) Buffalo Sabres center Jack Eichel is reportedly changing agents amid an ongoing dispute with the club about treatment of a herniated disc, replacing Peter Fish and Peter Donatelli of Massachusetts-based Global Hockey Consultants with Pat Brisson of CAA Sports. The Sabres have been attempting to trade Eichel over the past several months due to the growing rift between the organization and player. (Sportsnet)

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The Big 12 is seriously discussing BYU, sources say, and the TV numbers are in the Cougars' favor Max Olson and Andy Staples, The Athletic Now that the Pac-12 has popped the balloon on the best hope the eight Big 12 members not named Oklahoma or Texas had of joining one of the remaining power conferences, it's time to start pondering what the conference should do next. With no rescue on the horizon, the eight that will be left in the league when the Sooners and Longhorns decamp to the SEC need to start considering what their conference will look like in its next iteration. Big response to UCLA ticket offers could lead to huge crowd at Rose Bowl against LSU Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times After routing Hawaii, 44-10, in their season opener before an announced crowd of 32,982 at the Rose Bowl, the Bruins are hoping to follow one of their smallest attendance figures with one of the largest in recent seasons when No. 16 Louisiana State arrives Saturday. Athletic department officials have done seemingly everything short of offering free limousine service to the game in their efforts to fill the stadium. Nebraska contracts with data firms to help build new in-house operation Michael Smith, Sports Business Journal The University of Nebraska's new in-house multimedia rights business has contracted with a pair of data analytics specialists to grow corporate sponsorship sales and measure return on investments. SSB, an Austin-based firm, has a deep background in college athletics and professional sports as a data analyst that helps properties discover and vet their revenue opportunities. College programs slow to add sportsbook deals Bill King, Sports Business Journal To predict the deal flow around sports betting, you don't just follow the money. You follow the map. There are now 23 Power 5 programs in states that will have online sports betting by year's end: Five from the Pac-12, three from both the ACC and SEC and two from the Big 12.

---Morning Consult

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