Month: August 2020

12:47 AM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The LPGA Tour’s Cambia Portland Classic will be played as scheduled Sept. 17-20 without fans at Columbia Edgewater Country Club. The Kia Classic has been postponed until March. Unable to reschedule the Kia Classic at Aviara Golf Club in Carlsbad, California, amid the coronavirus pandemic, the
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1:16 AM ET The two men fighting for the UFC middleweight title next month got into a heated verbal exchange Thursday night. Israel Adesanya, the division’s champion, and challenger Paulo Costa fired pointed barbs during a satellite interview with Michael Eaves on SportsCenter. At one point a fiery Costa even unbuttoned his shirt to show
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1:02 AM ET Braden Holtby might have played his last game with the Washington Capitals. “Certainly there’s a chance it is,” said the goaltender, whose team meekly exited the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 4-0 loss to the Islanders on Thursday night, as New York eliminated the Caps in five games. “But who knows? You
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11:00 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN DIEGO — Eric Hosmer hit a historic shot Thursday night that made the San Diego Padres the first team in the majors to launch grand slams in four straight games. The Padres beat the Texas Rangers 8-7 in the 10th inning to sweep a four-game, home-and-home series with
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11:26 PM ET Portland Trail Blazers star guard Damian Lillard left Thursday’s 111-88 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in the third quarter because of a dislocated left index finger. X-rays on Lillard’s finger were negative, the team announced. Lillard, who scored 18 points on 6-of-14 shooting in 30 minutes, did not return to the
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7:53 PM ET In announcing Thursday that there would be no tailgating on campus this season for Mississippi State, Ole Miss and Southern Miss football games, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves tweeted a zinger in the direction of the Big Ten and Pac-12. I know this will not be popular, but there will be no game
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4:00 AM ET Liverpool ended 30 years of hurt by lifting the Premier League trophy last season. Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images The Premier League announced its fixture list for the 2020-21 season on Thursday, with champions Liverpool starting their title defence at home to newly promoted Leeds. Liverpool ended a 30-year wait to lift the league title
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7:54 PM ET Associated Press NORTON, Mass. — Harris English made the difficult look easy Thursday in The Northern Trust, just like he has done all year to even reach this position in the PGA Tour’s postseason. Facing the tough stretch at TPC Boston in the middle of his round, English hit 5-iron on the
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7:25 PM ET ESPN News Services Austin Dillon has been cleared to race this weekend at Dover International Speedway in Delaware following two negative coronavirus tests, Richard Childress Racing announced Thursday. Dillon did not compete in Sunday’s Cup Series race on Daytona International Speedway’s road course after RCR said he tested positive last Saturday. Dillon
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5:09 PM ET The New York Mets‘ game Thursday against the Miami Marlins has been postponed after two positive tests for the coronavirus within the Mets’ organization, Major League Baseball announced Thursday. In addition, Friday’s game between the Mets and New York Yankees has been postponed to allow for additional testing and for contact tracing
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4:55 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri issued a statement on Thursday afternoon in his first public comments since video footage showed the altercation with Ujiri and a San Francisco-area sheriff’s deputy following the clinching game of the NBA Finals last year. Ujiri starts the statement thanking everyone who expressed “disappointment and
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1:47 PM ET Five Notre Dame football players have tested positive for COVID-19 and six others are in quarantine through contact-tracing protocols, the school announced Thursday. The football team has canceled practice Thursday and will undergo another round of testing Friday. The school said it will return to practice based on the advice of medical
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2:43 PM ET NORTON, Mass. — Tiger Woods didn’t have a scientific reason for going back to the shorter Scotty Cameron putter he has largely relied on for more than two decades after a brief break from it during the PGA Championship earlier this month. “Just stubbornness,” Woods said Thursday after his opening-round 3-under 68
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