Month: October 2021

8:42 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin left the Washington Capitals‘ preseason finale against Philadelphia on Friday night with what the team called a lower-body injury and is set to be examined further Saturday. Ovechkin bumped into Flyers forward Travis Konecny midway through the first period and then went down to the ice.
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11:52 AM ET Interim UConn football coach Lou Spanos is one of three coaches and two players who tested positive for COVID-19 and will be out for Saturday’s game against UMass. Spanos, who took over for Randy Edsall after his resignation on Sept. 6, is in isolation, as are offensive coordinator/offensive line coach Frank Giufre
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10:14 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Sam Burns won the Sanderson Farms Championship last week and is trying to put it behind him. He’s playing as though it never ended. Burns made a pair of 6-foot par putts on the only two greens he missed in regulation and ran off eight birdies in
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4:38 PM ET WBA women’s bantamweight title holder Shannon Courtenay lost her belt on Friday by missing weight ahead of her bout against Jamie Mitchell. Courtenay weighed in at 120.5 pounds, 2.5 pounds over the bantamweight limit for the fight before her first defense of the title on the undercard of the Liam Smith- Anthony
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8:43 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Ontario’s major indoor professional sports teams have been given the green light to host capacity crowds. The NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators and the NBA’s Toronto Raptors will be able to play in front of full arenas when their seasons start this month, Ontario Sports Minister
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7:47 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LAS VEGAS — Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder both tipped the scales at the heaviest of their careers on Friday, one day before they’ll meet in a heavyweight championship trilogy fight (9 p.m. ET, ESPN+ PPV). Fury weighed 277 pounds, four more pounds than he weighed in his February 2020
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6:18 PM ET ESPN News Services The Seattle Seahawks are bracing for quarterback Russell Wilson to miss at least a month and possibly up to eight weeks with a ruptured tendon in the middle finger of his right hand, sources tell ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. The injury will likely require surgery, sources say. Wilson met with
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7:00 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving will be able to practice at the team’s facility in Brooklyn, sources confirmed to ESPN, but still won’t be able to play in home games due to the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The change in Irving’s status is due to the city determining that the
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7:51 PM ET Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Phil Mickelson shot a 6-under 66 on Friday for a share of the first-round lead with Matt Gogel in the PGA Tour Champions’ Constellation Furyk & Friends Invitational. Trying to win for the third time in four career starts on the 50-and-over tour, Mickelson had seven birdies
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4:20 PM ET Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden used a racist comment in referring to NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith in an email 10 years ago, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The email, sent to the president of the Washington Football Team in July 2011 as the NFL and its players
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2:45 PM ET The UFC is close to finalizing a barn burner of a main event between Calvin Kattar and Giga Chikadze in January, multiple sources told ESPN. Contracts have not been signed, but the UFC is working on booking the featherweight bout as its headliner for a UFC Fight Night on Jan. 15. Kattar
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1:36 PM ET Phil Hawes had the possibility of two opponents this weekend, but neither bout will happen. Deron Winn, Hawes’ scheduled opponent, withdrew from the fight because of an illness, which was not weight cut- or coronavirus-related, UFC announced Friday morning. In Winn’s place, UFC signed MMA veteran Chris Curtis to fight Hawes on
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