Month: February 2022

2:19 PM ET ESPN News Services Joe West has made it official, retiring from Major League Baseball after umpiring a record 5,460 regular-season games. The 69-year-old West worked his first big league game on Sept. 14, 1976, at third base in Atlanta when the Braves hosted the Houston Astros. His finale was on Oct. 6,
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2:51 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Ryan Garcia is on the comeback trail. The star boxer and Emmanuel Tagoe will meet in a lightweight fight on April 9 at the Alamodome in San Antonio on DAZN, according to Oscar De La Hoya, who promotes Garcia. The bout will be Garcia’s first since January 2021, when he
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2:56 PM ET The LA Clippers are trading Eric Bledsoe, Justise Winslow, Keon Johnson and a future second-round pick to the Portland Trail Blazers for Norman Powell and Robert Covington, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The pick the Clippers are sending out is a 2025 second-round pick via the Detroit Pistons, sources tell ESPN. The
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5:20 PM ET Instead of celebrating the No. 1 signing class on Wednesday, Texas A&M football coach Jimbo Fisher vehemently defended his program against accusations that money fueled the Aggies’ success on the recruiting trail. Fisher called out an anonymous message board poster who uses the handle “Sliced Bread” for claims that the Aggies had
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1:04 PM ET NC State is working on a contract extension and raise for football coach Dave Doeren, athletic director Boo Corrigan told ESPN on Friday. “I really like what Dave’s done going into his 10th year here and the way he’s grown the program,” Corrigan said. “I’d be really happy to have him here
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11:35 AM ET Chris Low Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Pete Thamel As university leaders scrutinize the struggles of first-year Auburn football coach Bryan Harsin amid an exodus of players and coaches, he told ESPN he’s committed to the school for the long
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1:38 PM ET Two title fights are now official for UFC 273. Alexander Volkanovski will defend his UFC featherweight title against Chan Sung Jung, “The Korean Zombie,” in the main event of the pay-per-view card April 9 in Jacksonville, Florida, UFC chief business officer Hunter Campbell confirmed to ESPN on Friday. The co-main event will
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