Month: July 2023

Marc J. Spears Jul 25, 2023, 11:04 AM ET Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown has agreed to sign the richest deal in NBA history — a five-year, $304 million supermax contract extension, his agent Jason Glushon told ESPN on Tuesday. Brown and Glushon met with Celtics management and ownership Sunday evening in Boston, finalizing the
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Mike Coppinger, ESPNJul 25, 2023, 09:55 AM ET Naoya Inoue cemented himself as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world with a destructive performance: an eighth-round TKO of Stephen Fulton on Tuesday in Tokyo to claim the WBO and WBC junior featherweight titles. Inoue, who was fighting at 122 pounds for the first time, dominated
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Jul 24, 2023, 09:14 PM ET The Colorado Rockies are becoming all-too familiar with Tommy John surgery. The team on Monday said a trio of right-handed pitching prospects — Gabriel Hughes, Jordy Vargas and Jackson Cox — will undergo the season-ending procedure this week. The three are among the organization’s top handful of pitching prospects,
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Virat Kohli (L) and Kim Kardashian© Twitter Virat Kohli is currently the third most influential athlete on social media platform Instagram behind football superstars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. According to HypeAuditor, the former Indian cricket team skipper has 255.6 million followers with his average engagement on the app varying between 4.1 million to 4.5
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:02 PM ET Former Georgia linebacker Adam Anderson was sentenced Monday in Athens-Clarke County (Georgia) Superior Court to a year in jail, according to multiple reports, after pleading guilty to the sexual battery of two young women. In April 2022, a grand jury indicted Anderson and charged him with raping a 21-year-old
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Jul 24, 2023, 04:18 PM ET Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill has reached a settlement with the parties involved in an incident at a Miami Beach marina last month, attorneys for both sides announced Monday. “The parties to the incident which occurred on June 18th, 2023 at the Haulover Marina involving Tyreek Hill have
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Jul 24, 2023, 07:10 AM ET Saudi Arabian club Al Hilal made a record €300 million ($332m) bid for France striker Kylian Mbappé on Monday. Paris Saint-Germain confirmed the offer for its player and have given Al Hilal permission to open negotiations directly with the player. – Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.) Instead,
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Associated Press Jul 24, 2023, 07:03 PM ET CLEVELAND — Guardians ace Shane Bieber, who has not pitched since July 9 because of right elbow inflammation, was transferred to the 60-day injured list Monday in a procedural move. Manager Terry Francona said the 2020 AL Cy Young Award winner did not experience a setback while
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Associated Press Jul 24, 2023, 10:56 PM ET RALEIGH, N.C. — The Carolina Hurricanes have signed defenseman Tony DeAngelo to a one-year deal, bringing him back to the team for the second time in three seasons. The deal announced Monday will pay $1.675 million to the 27-year-old DeAngelo, who spent the 2021-22 season with Carolina
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Associated Press Jul 24, 2023, 08:39 PM ET URBANA, Ill. — The 2-year-old grandson of Milwaukee Bucks coach Adrian Griffin died Saturday after the child’s father found him unresponsive earlier in the day. Jayce D. Griffin of Urbana, Illinois, was pronounced dead Saturday at 10:40 a.m. at the Carle Foundation Hospital, according to Champaign County
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Jul 24, 2023, 08:39 PM ET After another disappointing performance at the final major of the season, Justin Thomas entered next month’s Wyndham Championship, the final tournament of the PGA Tour regular season. The Wyndham will be a chance for Thomas to not only earn FedEx Cup points, but also to prove he belongs on
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ESPN News Services Jul 24, 2023, 01:06 PM ET The Atlanta Braves acquired relievers Pierce Johnson and Taylor Hearn in separate trades Monday. The Braves traded right-handers Victor Vodnik and Tanner Gordon, ranked Nos. 10 and 26 respectively among Atlanta’s farmhands per MLB Pipeline, to the Colorado Rockies for Johnson. In exchange for Hearn, the
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