Month: December 2020

9:04 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Former Barcelona president and presidential candidate Joan Laporta has told ESPN that the club have repeatedly lied to Lionel Messi, but he does not think the Argentina international will be playing his football elsewhere next season. Laporta was the Barca president between 2003 and 2010 and is running
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1:52 AM ET Army football coach Jeff Monken woke up early Sunday, anxious to find out who his team would face in a bowl game. The Black Knights had posted a 9-2 record, capped by Saturday’s victory over Air Force that secured them the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy. Army had an agreement to play in the Radiance
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9:00 AM ET The New York Jets pulled off the biggest upset of the season on Sunday, knocking off the Los Angeles Rams as 17-point underdogs. One bettor in New Jersey saw it coming — way back in September. Leading up to the NFL season, FanDuel offered odds on when teams would notch their first
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6:00 AM ET Andy Murray defeated British No. 1 Dan Evans in straight sets in his first tennis match since October. Murray, a three-time Grand Slam winner, has been out of action after defeat to Fernando Verdasco. The 33-year-old pulled out of the remainder of the season after inflaming a pelvic injury he had sustained
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6:43 AM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — Lee Westwood was voted as the European Tour’s golfer of the year for 2020 on Monday, winning the award for the fourth time in his career after ending the season as the Race to Dubai champion at the age of 47. Westwood started the 27th year
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International cricket found a way through this year’s coronavirus pandemic but the strain of ‘bubble life’ was evident by the end of 2020. The women’s Twenty20 World Cup, won by Australia in front of a Melbourne crowd of more than 86,000 on March 8, escaped the ravages of Covid-19 but the men’s game soon ground
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4:09 PM ET ESPN News Services ORLANDO, Fla. — Justin Thomas and Tiger Woods traded text messages on the eve of the final round at the PNC Championship, their teams tied for the lead and in contention. Neither mentioned winning. This was about Woods getting to play alongside 11-year-old son Charlie, watching him twirl the
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9:55 AM ET All-NBA big man Rudy Gobert will sign a five-year, $205 million contract extension with the Utah Jazz, he told ESPN after agreeing to the largest deal for a center in league history. “It means that they believe in me,” Gobert told ESPN. “They believe in what we’ve been building over the years
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