Month: December 2022

8:21 PM ET Colorado Avalanche star center Nathan MacKinnon will miss approximately four weeks with an upper-body injury, the team announced on Tuesday night. MacKinnon left Colorado’s 5-3 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday. The veteran forward took a wrist shot from the slot in the first period, and as the puck sailed wide
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4:29 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Mills Lane, the Hall of Fame referee who officiated the Mike Tyson-Evander Holyfield “Bite Fight” and more than 100 other championship bouts, died Tuesday morning at his Reno, Nevada, home, his son Terry Lane confirmed to ESPN. He was 85. Lane, known for his prefight catchphrase “Let’s get it on,”
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3:52 PM ET The Dallas Cowboys have concerns after Odell Beckham Jr.’s physical that his recovery from a torn left ACL in the Super Bowl has not progressed enough to ensure he would play before mid-January, a source tells ESPN’s Ed Werder. There is a possibility that signing Beckham, who is closing out his two-day
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2:38 PM ET The Pittsburgh Pirates and right-hander Vince Velasquez have agreed to a one-year contract, a source told ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel on Tuesday. The contract is worth $3.15 million, a source told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Velasquez, 30, was 3-3 with a 4.78 ERA in 75⅓ innings over 27 appearances for the Chicago White Sox
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2:18 PM ET Associated Press Two-time Grand Slam finalist Karolina Pliskova is reuniting with coach Sascha Bajin ahead of the 2023 tennis season. Pliskova posted on her website and her Twitter account on Tuesday about the move, which comes about six months after she and Bajin stopped working together. The pair originally teamed up in
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2:09 PM ET James Krause, the MMA coach at the center of a UFC betting controversy, is barred from attending or cornering any fighters at the Fighting Alliance Championship event on Friday in Independence, Missouri, sources told ESPN. Krause-trained fighters Gauge Young, Gina Mazany and Alexa Culp are on the card for FAC 17. The
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The ICC Men’s Player of the Month nominees were announced by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday in celebration of the outstanding performances that took place across international cricket in November 2022. The shortlist for the ICC Men’s Player of the Month for November features two stars of England’s T20 World Cup-winning campaign and Pakistan speedster Shaheen Shah Afridi. A release stated that Jos Buttler was in inspired form as his side surged to glory, providing a solid platform for success both as
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11:30 AM GMT England head coach Eddie Jones has been sacked by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) in the wake of a run of poor results, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) announced on Tuesday. The RFU announced Richard Cockerill will take over the running of the men’s team in the interim. 2 Related RFU CEO
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Dec 5, 2022 Wales’ former head coach Warren Gatland has been reappointed for the 2023 season as Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) part ways with Wayne Pivac. WRU CEO Steve Phillips confirmed on Monday that Gatland — who served as Wales’ longest standing coach when he left in 2019 after 12 years in charge — will
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10:05 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Josh Warrington is urging Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn to match him against a rival world featherweight champion in the United States next year, providing
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Dec 6, 2022 Associated Press LONDON — The Hopman Cup tennis competition that pairs one woman and one man from each participating country will return next year and be played in Nice, France. The International Tennis Federation announced Tuesday that the matches will be held on July 19-23. The Nice Lawn Tennis Club will be
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