Month: June 2024

Jun 19, 2024, 01:02 PM Open Extended Reactions Rugby world champions South Africa have named uncapped Jordan Hendrikse at flyhalf and Edwill van der Merwe on the wing in a much-changed squad to face Wales in a one-off Test at Twickenham on Saturday. Hendrikse, 22, has been preferred to World Cup winner Manie Libbok in
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Jun 19, 2024, 09:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions After one season, the Detroit Pistons have dismissed coach Monty Williams, who leaves with five years and $65 million-plus left on his deal, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The decision to fire Williams was made at the ownership level, sources told Wojnarowski. Team Win Pct. Pistons
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Jun 19, 2024, 12:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Andy Murray was forced to withdraw from his Queen’s Club Championship match against Jordan Thompson on Wednesday with a back injury. Murray, 37, looked uncomfortable walking to the court before the match started. He then required treatment on his lower back from his trainer just a
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Eli Lederman, ESPNJun 19, 2024, 11:14 AM ET Open Extended Reactions USC’s 2025 recruiting class suffered a second massive blow in the span of 24 hours Wednesday morning with the decommitment of five-star defensive tackle Justus Terry. “My recruitment is open!! #Decommitted,” Terry wrote on X. Terry’s decision to reopen his recruitment comes just one
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Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterJun 18, 2024, 06:28 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Atlanta Falcons will be adding former quarterback Matt Ryan and team owner and chairman Arthur Blank to their ring of honor during the 2024 season, it was announced Tuesday. Ryan, who retired from the NFL in April, spent 14 seasons with
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Jun 19, 2024, 07:14 AM ET Open Extended Reactions A trio of former world number ones in Angelique Kerber, Naomi Osaka and Caroline Wozniacki have been handed wild cards into the main draw of next month’s Wimbledon championship, it was announced Wednesday. Kerber, down at 224th in the world rankings after 18 months on maternity
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Jun 18, 2024, 07:56 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first player ever to appear in six different European Championships as Portugal began their 2024 campaign against Czechia on Tuesday. The 39-year-old will look to reclaim the title that Portugal won in 2016 when they beat host country France 1-0 to
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Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterJun 18, 2024, 06:26 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan loses quarterback J.J. McCarthy and seven other NFL draft picks from an offense that helped the team to a national championship in January, but was
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Tim Kurkjian, ESPN Senior WriterJun 18, 2024, 10:34 PM ET Close Senior writer ESPN Magazine/ESPN.com Analyst/reporter ESPN television Has covered baseball since 1981 Open Extended Reactions One of the greatest players of all time, Frank Robinson, was asked once if Willie Mays was the best player he had ever seen. Robinson got that annoyed look
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