Big Ten expected to hire Vikings executive Kevin Warren as next commissioner

It appears the Big Ten has found its successor to commissioner Jim Delany.

Sources told Yahoo Sports’ Pat Forde and Pete Thamel that Kevin Warren, the Chief Operating Officer of the Minnesota Vikings, is expected to be named the conference’s next commissioner on Tuesday. The Big Ten, whose presidents and chancellors met in their annual meeting on Sunday, announced Monday that it had a Tuesday press conference scheduled to introduce its new commissioner.

The news was first reported by 670 The Score and NFL Network.

Warren, 55, has worked for the Vikings since 2005 and rose up the ranks to COO in 2015, becoming the first African American COO in NFL history and the highest-ranking African American executive working for an NFL team. Warren, who also worked for the Detroit Lions and St. Louis Rams, has an extensive law background and once worked at a law firm with former SEC commissioner Mike Slive.

If the hire comes to fruition, Warren would become the first African American commissioner of a Power Five conference. Earlier this year, the Sun Belt became the first FBS conference to hire an African American commissioner when it hired Keith Gill from the Atlantic 10.

Warren is set to replace Delany, who announced in March that he would end his term as commissioner when his contract expires on June 30, 2020. Delany has led the conference since his hire in 1989.

[SOURCE: YAHOO SPORTS]

Remains found in Arkansas confirmed to be missing 4-year-old Maleah Davis

Remains found in Arkansas are confirmed to belong to 4-year-old Maleah Davis, a Houston girl who had been missing for one month, officials with the Harris County Institute of Forensic Scientists said Monday.

The cause and manner of her death are pending.

Community activist Quanell X said Maleah's mother's ex-fiance, Derion Vence, confessed to dumping the 4-year-old's body in Arkansas, ABC Houston station KTRK reported on Friday.

Vence, who was caring for Maleah while her mother was away, had told police the little girl was abducted by three men, including one who knocked him out during a carjacking.

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, however, quickly said detectives didn't believe his story.

Investigators found the family's car in Missouri City, Texas, and authorities said cadaver-sniffing dogs detected the scent of human remains inside.

Houston detectives then rushed to Arkansas, where remains were found in a garbage bag on Friday, said police.

"We are all saddened by the confirmation of the identification of the remains," Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said in a statement on Monday. "However, we are heartened by the fact this sweet child can now receive the proper burial she deserved."

The chief vowed that police and prosecutors will work "to ensure the person(s) responsible for her death, and the attempted cover-up of her death, are held accountable to the fullest extent of the law."

[SOURCE: YAHOO.COM]

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Cory Booker Speech On Gun Violence At California Democratic Party State Convention

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Bryla McKelley Is Missing!

YOUNGSTOWN OHIO — City police are looking for Bryla McKelley, 17, who has been missing since November 2018. The last time she was seen was on the South Side, said officer Hannah Short of the department’s Family Services Investigative Unit.

McKelley is 5 feet 1 inch tall, weighing 172 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. No one has had contact with McKelley since December.

Anyone with information can call police officer Hannah Short at 330-743-9380.