Month: February 2023

8:22 PM ET Oklahoma and Texas have agreed in principle to pay the Big 12 conference a total of $100 million to join the SEC in 2024, a year earlier than they had originally intended, the Big 12 conference announced on Thursday evening. The agreement is subject to the final approval from the Oklahoma and
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9:00 PM ET NFL NationESPN Before the Kansas City Chiefs (16-3) and Philadelphia Eagles (16-3) meet at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, for Super Bowl LVII (Sunday, 6:30 p.m. ET, Fox), the best of the NFL will gather in Phoenix for Thursday’s NFL Honors. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who will appear in his third
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8:47 PM ET Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Morning frost gave way to gusting wind Thursday in the WM Phoenix Open, leading to tricky scoring conditions at TPC Scottsdale. “I actually felt the best swing I made of the day was the par-3 seventh, and hit it 20 yards over the green,” top-ranked Rory McIlroy
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7:51 PM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH, Fla. — About $1 billion of Major League Baseball’s revenue is at risk if a cable television company fails to make payments for local broadcasting rights to 14 teams, and the sport is preparing to take over telecasts. “I think you should assume that if Diamond doesn’t broadcast,
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8:10 PM ET If Team USA and Japan ultimately meet in the upcoming World Baseball Classic, it won’t be until the end, in either the semifinals or the championship game during the second half of March. In that scenario, Mike Trout would face off against his Los Angeles Angels teammate, two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani, pinning
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2:57 PM ET Dan HajduckyESPN Close Hajducky is a reporter/researcher for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men’s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities. A signed Kobe Bryant jersey, worn during his lone MVP season in 2007-08, has sold for $5,849,700 with Sotheby’s,
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6:32 PM ET Associated Press The Southeastern Conference says it distributed an average of $49.9 million to its 14 member schools for the fiscal year that ended last August. Commissioner Greg Sankey said Thursday the league divided $721.8 million of total revenue among its members. That included $698.5 million distributed by the league office and
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Feb 9, 2023 Veteran coach Charlie Strong, who was Miami’s co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach last season, told ESPN on Thursday that he would not return to Miami in 2023 after being passed over for the defensive coordinator job. “Coach [Mario] Cristobal and the program made a decision to go in a different direction. It’s
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Feb 9, 2023 Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two former Ohio State football players were acquitted Thursday on charges of rape and kidnapping stemming from a sexual encounter they had with a woman in an apartment the two players shared. Amir Riep and Jahsen Wint embraced each other and both cried after the jury verdict
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4:45 PM ET Associated Press The U.S. Open has added the NCAA champion and Latin America Amateur champions to the list of exempt players, along with making slight tweaks to categories for players who don’t have to qualify. Some of the changes were due to golf coming fully out of the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing for
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4:20 PM ET Cecilia Braekhus is once again trying to become a two-division world champion. The former world pound-for-pound No. 1 fighter will face WBA junior middleweight champion Terri Harper in April in Sheffield, England, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn announced Thursday in Harper’s first defense of her belt. Harper, 26, won the title last year
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Feb 9, 2023 Connor O’Halloran LONDON, England — Anthony Joshua said he has removed “distractions” from his life as he plans to rebuild his boxing career ahead of an April bout against Jermaine Franklin. Joshua (24-3, 22 KOs) is looking to rebound from back-to-back defeats to Oleksandr Usyk — the second of which was a
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Great Britain won women’s gold and men’s silver in the team pursuit at the UEC European Track Championships. Anna Morris, Josie Knight, Neah Evans and Katie Archibald beat world champions Italy by more than two seconds over the four-kilometre mark. Oliver Wood, Ethan Vernon, Charlie Tanfield and Dan Bigham lost to Italy, the Olympic champions,
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Feb 9, 2023 Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Matt Murray is back on injured reserve with an ankle injury, the club announced Thursday. The netminder began dealing with the issue late last month and was eventually forced out last minute from a scheduled start against the Ottawa Senators on Jan. 27. Murray was monitored over the
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