Month: October 2022

7:52 AM ET There’s a new favorite atop the odds to win the national championship at sportsbooks, and for the first time in nearly two years, it doesn’t hail from the SEC. Ohio State moved past Alabama and Georgia this week to become the consensus favorite to win the College Football Playoff. The Buckeyes are
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7:52 PM ET ESPN News Services HOUSTON — Yordan Alvarez smashed a game-ending, three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning off Robbie Ray, wrecking the Seattle Mariners‘ strategy of using a Cy Young Award winner in a rare relief role and vaulting the Houston Astros to an 8-7 victory Tuesday in their playoff
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7:04 PM ET The UFC has added a light heavyweight matchup between former champion Jan Blachowicz and Magomed Ankalaev to its final pay-per-view of 2022, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. The 205-pound contest will take place at UFC 282 on Dec. 10 in Las Vegas. Blachowicz (29-9) will look to solidify his case for another
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4:56 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR said a review of data and team communications showed that Stewart-Haas Racing manipulated the results of the playoff elimination race at Charlotte, an infraction that drew an additional $200,000 in fines on Tuesday. “Nothing contradicted that that was done deliberately,” NASCAR senior vice president of competition
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4:05 PM ET Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jack Nicklaus is as curious as anyone how the new PGA Tour schedule will work with $20 million purses at 10 elevated tournaments, and The Players Championship at $25 million. And that doesn’t include what the majors will do. The Memorial is one of the elevated tournaments,
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4:36 PM ET ESPN News Services Charlotte Hornets All-Star point guard LaMelo Ball is expected to miss one to two weeks because of his sprained left ankle, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Tuesday. The Hornets had earlier announced that an MRI confirmed that Ball has a sprained ankle and his return to full basketball
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4:23 PM ET Associated Press The best team event that doesn’t involve a cup is returning to the LPGA Tour. South Korea-based Hanwha is the new title sponsor of the International Crown, which returns to the LPGA landscape next year at Harding Park in San Francisco. The tournament features eight countries each with four players
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3:47 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The rescheduled unified light heavyweight championship fight between Artur Beterbiev and Anthony Yarde is being planned for Jan. 28 in London, promoter Frank Warren told IFL TV on Monday. First, Yarde must emerge victorious — and uninjured — from a Nov. 19 tuneup bout in the U.K. against an opponent
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3:08 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Teofimo Lopez and Jose Pedraza are in the process of finalizing a deal for a Dec. 10 junior welterweight fight in New York, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. The bout will be Lopez’s second at 140 pounds following a 135-pound campaign that included a victory over Vasiliy Lomachenko to capture
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2:41 PM ET One concussed NFL quarterback and two questionable flags for roughing the passer. That’s all it took for the first officiating feeding frenzy of the 2022 season. There is no evidence that Tua Tagovailoa‘s concussion, and its subsequent fallout, is connected to the pair of penalty flags that prompted leaguewide discussion Sunday and
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2:02 PM ET Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas will likely be without star quarterback Jalon Daniels, who hurt his right shoulder in last week’s loss to TCU, leaving backup Jason Bean to start when the No. 19 Jayhawks visit struggling Oklahoma on Saturday. Daniels was hurt just before halftime of the 38-31 loss when
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10:52 AM ET Philadelphia Phillies reliever David Robertson is out of the division series against the Atlanta Braves with a celebration injury. Manager Rob Thomson said Robertson strained his right calf jumping up in the air when Bryce Harper homered against the Cardinals in the last round. Phillies-Braves Game 1 is Tuesday afternoon in Atlanta.
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10:46 AM ET Kylian Mbappe is pushing to leave Paris Saint-Germain in January, as his relationship with the club has broken down, sources have confirmed to ESPN. The news comes just five months after Mbappe, 23, signed a new contract with PSG, with sources saying he feels at odds with the club’s direction on and
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More than 700 organisations and individuals have signed an open letter to British Cycling calling for the governing body to “renounce” its sponsorship deal with oil giant Shell. British Cycling said the eight-year deal would bring “wide-ranging support and investment” to the sport. However, after announcing the deal on Monday, it has been accused of
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