Month: December 2022

11:52 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN NEW YORK — As the Golden State Warriors‘ road struggles boiled over in a 143-113 loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday night, head coach Steve Kerr said his team has hit rock bottom. The Warriors are depleted, playing without five rotational players, including three starters, and there is no
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2:05 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The Josh Taylor-Jack Catterall rematch for Taylor’s lineal and WBO junior welterweight championship has been rescheduled to March 4 in Glasgow, Scotland, sources told ESPN. The return bout between ESPN’s top two 140-pounders will take place at the same venue as the first meeting: the OVO Hydro. Taylor, who fights
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10:32 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts will miss Saturday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys with a right shoulder sprain, meaning Gardner Minshew will get the start in a game that could secure the NFC East title and the No. 1 overall seed in the NFC. “Jalen did everything he possibly could to
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7:00 AM ET Buon Natale! Salernitana’s Diego Valencia and Antonio Candreva model their club’s Christmas sweaters. Twitter @OfficialUSS1919 Thanks to the unusual timing of the 2022 World Cup, the festive build-up took a backseat for a while this year, but that hasn’t deterred football clubs from across Europe’s top leagues cramming their stores full of Christmas
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6:30 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson has been placed in the league’s health and safety protocols and will not play Thursday against the San Antonio Spurs. Williamson has been a driving force this season for the Pelicans, who are 18-12 and in third place in the Western Conference. He’s averaging
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12:11 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The New York Mets traded catcher James McCann to the Baltimore Orioles, it was announced, and signed infielder Danny Mendick to a one-year, $1 million major league contract on Wednesday, sources told
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10:44 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Pascal Siakam scored a career-high 52 points and the Toronto Raptors snapped the New York Knicks‘ NBA-leading eight-game winning streak 113-106 Wednesday night. “It’s cool,” Siakam said of posting his first 50-point game at Madison Square Garden. “I’m not a super basketball historian. I didn’t start
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9:11 PM ET Associated Press GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Former Wisconsin quarterback Graham Mertz is transferring to Florida, giving the Gators an experienced starter at a depleted position. Mertz announced his commitment on social media Wednesday. He is expected to enroll at the Southeastern Conference school in January. A three-year starter at Wisconsin, Mertz left the
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11:28 PM ET Deion Sanders has his biggest acquisition since arriving at Colorado — and it’s a familiar face. Former five-star recruit Travis Hunter, who entered the transfer portal on Sunday, made the news official late Wednesday night that he’ll follow Sanders from Jackson State. “I committed to Coach Prime at Jackson State when he
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11:14 AM ET Before penalties started at the end of the World Cup final, I left the room on the second floor of the Football Cafe in New York City’s Chinatown neighborhood, where I was watching the match along with a friend, a foot or so from Susan Sarandon (somehow), and ran up to the
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5:39 PM ET Associated Press A major winter storm projected to affect much of the eastern United States this week prompted the NHL on Wednesday to postpone the Buffalo Sabres‘ home game against the Tampa Bay Lightning two days before it was scheduled to be played. The decision was made in part because it backed
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