Month: February 2023

7:00 AM ET A group of Los Angeles Dodgers hitters descended upon Kent, Washington, this offseason to swing abnormally heavy bats under the watchful eyes of Driveline analysts, all with one mission in mind: Survive. Hitting has never been more difficult, a truism that acts as the biggest impediment to Major League Baseball’s determined efforts
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7:00 AM ET Jeremy Fowler Close Jeremy Fowler ESPN Staff Writer ESPN staff writer Previously a college football reporter for CBSSports.com University of Florida graduate Jamison Hensley Close Jamison Hensley ESPN Staff Writer University of Maryland graduate Lives in the Baltimore area with his wife and son OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens entered
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7:04 AM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN PORTLAND, Ore. — Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson finds inspiration in a Kobe Bryant quote, “Greatness isn’t just on the court, it’s everything you do.” It has shaped Thompson as a creature of habit when it comes to his game preparation. He goes through the same warmup routine each
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7:49 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. Tommy Fury comes from a fighting family. After all, his half-brother, Tyson Fury, is a heavyweight world champion. But Fury has made his name another way, becoming a television personality and gaining fame on the U.K. reality show “Love Island.” Fury started fighting professionally at the end of 2018
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9:15 PM ET Associated Press Alex Morgan and Mallory Swanson scored, and the United States defeated Brazil 2-1 on Wednesday night to win the SheBelieves Cup for the fourth straight year. Japan, which defeated Canada 3-0 in the earlier match at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, was runner-up in the four-team, round-robin tournament. All four
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6:27 AM ET Associated Press PATTAYA, Thailand — Jennifer Kupcho of the United States fired a bogey-free 7-under 65 to share the lead alongside four other golfers after the opening round of the LPGA Thailand on Thursday. The crowded leaderboard was no surprise on the Pattaya Old Course. The average winning score over the past
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11:59 PM ET Georgia All-SEC linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson was arrested Wednesday on misdemeanor charges of racing on highway/streets and reckless driving, according to Athens-Clarke County jail booking records. Sources confirmed multiple reports to ESPN that an incident involving Dumas-Johnson occurred on Jan. 10, the day after Georgia’s 65-7 victory over TCU in the College Football
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11:04 PM ET Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Saudi Arabia is entering a female team for the first time at an International Tennis Federation tournament — this week’s Asia/Oceania pre-qualifying event for the Billie Jean King Cup Juniors in Sri Lanka. Saudi Arabia and Brunei are making their Billie Jean King Cup Juniors debuts
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5:31 PM ET Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry is “making good progress” after missing the past five games because of a lower left leg injury, the team said Wednesday. Curry has started individual on-court workouts and will be reevaluated again in one week, the team said. Curry suffered partial tears to his superior tibiofibular
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10:30 PM ET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil’s main flagbearer on the men’s tennis tour for the past decade, has retired after losing in straight sets to sixth-seeded Sebastian Baez 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the Rio Open on Wednesday. Bellucci, 35, is now preparing to transition into coaching.
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7:31 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The British Boxing Board of Control is looking into an incident that involved Mauricio Lara spitting on rival Josh Warrington on Saturday night following Lara’s featherweight title victory over Leigh Wood, Robert Smith, the general secretary of the board, told ESPN. Lara (26-2-1, 19 KOs) rallied to score a seventh-round
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Feb 22, 2023 ESPN News Services NEW ORLEANS — LSU wide receiver Malik Nabers won’t face a misdemeanor charge following his arrest in New Orleans on a count of carrying an illegal weapon, court records indicate. Nabers, 19, of Youngsville, was arrested Monday night on Bourbon Street on one count of illegal carrying of a
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