Month: September 2023

Jeff Passan, ESPNSep 29, 2023, 05:31 PM ET Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The San Francisco Giants fired manager Gabe Kapler on Friday after a late-season collapse that dropped the team out of playoff contention and prompted questions about the franchise’s direction
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Brady Henderson, ESPNSep 29, 2023, 08:33 PM ET Close Brady Henderson is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Henderson covers the Seattle Seahawks. He joined ESPN in 2017 covering the team for Seattle Sports 710-AM. You can follow him via Twitter @BradyHenderson. RENTON, Wash. — Seattle Seahawks safety Jamal Adams, who’s set to make
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Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterSep 29, 2023, 11:38 AM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Alabama will be without its second leading tackler Saturday against Mississippi State, as redshirt sophomore middle linebacker Deontae Lawson is out with an ankle injury and could miss multiple games, sources
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Sep 29, 2023, 03:52 PM ET The NFL is modifying the league’s gambling policies that will punish players more harshly for betting on their own teams while also amending rules that will allow some players, including Detroit Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams, to return to the field quicker. Under the new policy, as disclosed in
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Pakistan faced a five-wicket defeat against New Zealand in their ODI World Cup warm-up match in Hyderabad on Friday. Opting to bat first, Pakistan posted 345/5 in 50 overs with Mohammad Rizwan smashing 103 while skipper Babar Azam scoring 80 runs. Later, New Zealand chased down the target in just 43.4 overs as Rachin Ravindra
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Tim Bontemps, ESPNSep 28, 2023, 03:28 PM ET The NBA on Thursday hired Albert Sanders as its new executive vice president, head of referee operations. Sanders, who has spent the past several years working as Google’s director of government affairs and public policy, spent another several years before that working in various positions in government,
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Mike Coppinger, ESPNSep 29, 2023, 07:40 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Canelo Alvarez and Jermell Charlo both weighed 167.4 pounds on Friday, one day before they will meet for Alvarez’s four 168-pound titles. Alvarez, boxing’s top star, will make the third defense of his undisputed super middleweight championship on Saturday in Las Vegas, while Charlo
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Associated Press Sep 29, 2023, 12:36 PM ET NEW YORK — The NBA has suspended former San Antonio Spurs guard Joshua Primo four games without pay for conduct detrimental to the league. League investigators found that Primo engaged in inappropriate behavior by exposing himself to women. Primo insists his conduct was not intentional, the league
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Sep 29, 2023, 08:19 PM ET South Korea’s Hae Ran Ryu made five birdies in a six-hole stretch to rush out to the first-round lead at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship on Friday in Rogers, Arkansas. Ryu shot a 7-under 64 at Pinnacle Country Club, with a group of nine players one stroke back at
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Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Sep 29, 2023, 12:54 PM ET Sevilla‘s directors will boycott Friday’s LaLiga match against Barcelona on Friday after the Catalan club were charged with suspected bribery. The charges relate to payments worth more than €7 million ($7.3m) made to companies linked to the former vice president of the refereeing committee, José
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Sep 29, 2023, 02:02 PM ET Minnesota Wild signed forwards Mats Zuccarello and Marcus Foligno to contract extensions on Friday. Zuccarello signed a two-year, $8.25 million contract extension on Friday that will keep him with the team through the 2025-26 season. Foligno followed later in the day by signing a four-year extension worth $16 million.
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Mike Coppinger, ESPNSep 29, 2023, 11:03 AM ET Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk have signed contracts for an undisputed heavyweight championship fight in Saudi Arabia, multiple sources told ESPN on Friday. The fight could take place on Dec. 23 or sometime in January, sources said. First, Fury must handle business when he meets former UFC
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Associated Press Sep 29, 2023, 01:47 PM ET BRANDON, Fla. — Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper made it clear that the Lightning will be without a “luxury” with Russian goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy expected to miss the first two months of the NHL season after undergoing back surgery. But Cooper has confidence the perennial Stanley Cup
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