Month: June 2021

11:22 AM ET Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo said Philadelphia Phillies manager Joe Girardi was playing games when he spurred the umpires to check Max Scherzer for foreign substances on Tuesday night and embarrassed everyone in the process. “It’s embarrassing for Girardi, it’s embarrassing for the Phillies, it’s embarrassing for baseball,” Rizzo said Wednesday
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6:03 PM ET Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Daniel and Henrik Sedin are returning to the Vancouver Canucks to work in the front office. Three years after their retirement, the Swedish twins joined the Canucks’ hockey operations department with the title of special adviser to the general manager, Jim Benning. “We’re coming in as
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2:35 PM ET UFC fighter Luis Pena is being accused of punching his girlfriend and breaking her cell phone. Pena was arrested last Friday in Coral Springs, Florida on charges of robbery by sudden snatching, battery and criminal mischief, per a spokesperson for the Coral Springs Police Department. The fighter remains in Broward County Detention
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5:18 PM ET The NFL has informed its teams that it will accept bids from cities other than Indianapolis to host its annual scouting combine beginning in 2023, a source confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. According to the source, all NFL teams will have the opportunity to let the league know whether they have interest
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Dec 5, 2017 Mark KriegelESPN Editor’s note: This was originally published in December, 2017. OXNARD, Calif. — The training of Ukrainian Vasyl Lomachenko — conceived, orchestrated and monitored by his father, with an assist from a psychologist trained in cognitive behaviorism — is famously idiosyncratic. It includes street skating and juggling, handstands and tennis, which
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2:50 PM ET The Boston Celtics are finalizing an agreement to hire Brooklyn Nets assistant Ime Udoka as their new coach, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Udoka spent the 2020-21 season on Steve Nash’s staff with the Nets. Prior to that, he spent one season with the Philadelphia 76ers and seven years under coach Gregg
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Nov 1, 2017 Editor’s note: Thsi story was originally published on Dec. 7, 2017. Lightweight world titleholder Vasiliy Lomachenko is one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world and a two-time Olympic gold medalist. He’s also very good at pretty much everything else he does. Lomachenko is very active on social media and we
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2:00 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jeff Gordon will leave the Fox Sports booth to take a daily role at Hendrick Motorsports as vice chairman and the second-ranking team official to majority owner Rick Hendrick. Wednesday’s announcement positions the four-time champion and Hall of Fame driver to one day succeed the 71-year-old Hendrick
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3:28 PM BST South Africa have said they are hopeful Duane Vermeulen will be fit enough to join the British & Irish Lions series, as assistant coach Deon Davids suggested on Wednesday the No. 8 was a “couple of weeks” away from joining the squad. Davids was coy on whether the forward would be available
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11:43 AM ET American teenager Coco Gauff’s Wimbledon preparations suffered a blip as she bowed out of the Eastbourne tournament on Wednesday, losing to Latvia’s Anastasija Sevastova 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. Sevastova, who is world No. 64, broke Gauff’s serve to claim the first set. The American hit back soon after, edging the second set to
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12:31 PM ET Associated Press WIMBLEDON, England — Defending champion Novak Djokovic was named as the top seed at Wimbledon on Wednesday as he seeks a 20th Grand Slam title while Roger Federer and Serena Williams will begin the grass-court tournament next week seeded seventh. Top-ranked Ashleigh Barty is seeded first on the women’s side.
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10:09 AM ET Undefeated heavyweight Ciryl Gane will meet Alexander Volkov in the main event of a matinee version of UFC Fight Night on Saturday afternoon in Las Vegas. The fights at UFC Apex will be on ESPN+, with the main card starting at 4 p.m. ET and prelims at 1 p.m. Gane (8-0), who
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8:16 AM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — Martin Kaymer and Graeme McDowell, players who have holed decisive putts for Europe at Ryder Cups, were appointed Wednesday as vice captains for the team for the 2021 edition at Whistling Straits in September. They joined Luke Donald and Robert Karlsson as assistants to captain Padraig
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