Month: March 2022

5:25 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen Erling Haaland‘s departure from Borussia Dortmund appears to be getting closer, with Manchester City, Real Madrid and Barcelona the frontrunners to pay the €75 million exit clause in his contract. With a remarkable scoring ratio of a goal per game (80 goals from his 80 appearances for the club in
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6:12 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Vergil Ortiz Jr., a rising star at 147 pounds, has been forced to withdraw from a March 19 fight against Michael McKinson in Los Angeles for undisclosed reasons, sources told ESPN. The fight was set to headline a Golden Boy Promotions on DAZN card. McKinson could fight a replacement opponent,
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8:44 PM ET Associated Press INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Taylor Fritz defeated Spanish qualifier Jaume Munar 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (2) on Tuesday in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open, making him one of six American men still alive in the desert tournament. Fritz reached the semifinals at Indian Wells last year, his career-best
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10:59 PM ET As the Cleveland Browns brass flew back from a meeting with who they hope will be their future quarterback, Deshaun Watson, their current quarterback, Baker Mayfield, posted a statement to social media on Tuesday night thanking the city of Cleveland and its fans “who truly embraced who I am.” “With many uncertainties,
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9:59 PM ET Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin passed hockey legend Jaromir Jagr for third all time on the NHL goal-scoring list, scoring career goal No. 767 at home against the New York Islanders on Tuesday night. With 4:58 left in the third period, Capitals center Evgeny Kuznetsov won a faceoff in the Islanders’ zone
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10:15 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN As Vasiliy Lomachenko works to help defend Ukraine from Russia’s ongoing invasion, efforts are being made by his team to allow him to leave his native country to train for a proposed fight against undisputed lightweight champion George Kambosos, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. Lomachenko, 34, joined a territorial defense
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4:51 PM ET Michigan has hired Milan (Mimi) Bolden-Morris, who recently finished her basketball career at Georgetown, to serve as a graduate assistant working with the Wolverines quarterbacks. Bolden-Morris, the sister of Michigan senior defensive end Mike Morris, will begin her new job June 1. She is the first woman to be a graduate assistant
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7:44 PM ET MANCHESTER, England — You know the script by now. Manchester United play a big game, their star players fail to perform as they are out-fought and out-thought by their opponents and, as surely as night follows day, they lose. Atletico Madrid‘s 1-0 Champions League win at Old Trafford, which sent United out
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10:56 AM ET Recent U.S. Olympian Keyshawn Davis has a new date for his next fight. The junior welterweight will face Esteban Sanchez on April 30 in Las Vegas, a source familiar with the bout told ESPN. It will be on the undercard of the Shakur Stevenson-Oscar Valdez junior lightweight title unification at the MGM
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8:46 PM ET UFC fighter Kevin Holland says he helped apprehend a man who shot a gun off at a Houston restaurant Monday night. Holland told ESPN on Tuesday that he was eating sushi with his friend, Patrick Robinson, when he heard a loud bang and saw people running away in fear. Holland said he
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5:14 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — The Chicago Blackhawks have agreed to a three-year contract with defenseman Alex Vlasic, who was the team’s second-round pick in the 2019 draft. The Blackhawks announced the entry-level deal Tuesday. It runs through the 2023-24 season and carries a salary-cap hit of $824,167. The 6-foot-6 Vlasic, who is
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12:31 PM ET Defensive end Randy Gregory agreed to a five-year, $70 million contract with the Denver Broncos on Tuesday, hours after he had agreed to a similar contract to return to the Dallas Cowboys, sources told ESPN. Gregory’s deal with the Broncos includes $28 million guaranteed. Gregory becomes the second impact defensive free-agent added
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