Month: October 2024

Alex Kirkland, ESPN FCOct 23, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions It was half-time during Real Madrid‘s first LaLiga game of the season vs. Real Mallorca, and midfielder Jude Bellingham had some feedback for forwards Kylian Mbappé, Vinícius Júnior and Rodrygo Goes: “You three, finish the attacks!” As the four players waited in the
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Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterOct 23, 2024, 07:35 AM ET Close College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions During every walk-through before Oregon games, coach Dan Lanning and Ducks players review an important and specific set of plays, broadly and innocuously labeled: “College football situations.” Some plays stay
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ESPN News Services Oct 22, 2024, 07:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — Jack Flaherty will start for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series opener against the New York Yankees. The right-hander opposes Gerrit Cole on Friday night at Dodger Stadium in a matchup of area natives. Flaherty is from nearby
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ESPN News Services Oct 22, 2024, 10:59 PM ET Fernando Valenzuela, the impetus behind “Fernandomania” while winning National League Cy Young Award and Rookie of the Year honors in 1981 as the Los Angeles Dodgers captured the world championship, has died at the age of 63. The Dodgers announced the news, saying Valenzuela died Tuesday
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ESPN News Services Oct 23, 2024, 12:18 AM ET Open Extended Reactions NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After a 5-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings Saturday night, his team’s fifth to open the season, Steven Stamkos, the headline addition in a summer full of them for the Nashville Predators, tried to keep it all in perspective.
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Jake Trotter, ESPN Senior WriterOct 22, 2024, 12:49 PM ET Close Jake Trotter covers college football for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2011. Before that, he worked at The Oklahoman, Austin American-Statesman and Middletown (Ohio) Journal newspapers. You can follow him @Jake_Trotter. Ohio State left tackle Josh Simmons will miss the rest of the season
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Associated Press Oct 22, 2024, 07:50 PM ET Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson began the second stage of LPGA qualifying Tuesday with a 78 as reports surfaced of 275 female players signing a letter asking top golf organizations to repeal policies that allow people assigned male at birth to compete in women’s events. Outkick reported that
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Andreas Hale, ESPNOct 22, 2024, 08:05 PM ET Open Extended Reactions A Nevada judge has issued preliminary approval for a $375 million settlement to conclude the first of two antitrust lawsuits against the UFC. Last month, UFC’s parent company TKO Group and the plaintiffs in the Le v. Zuffa case agreed to settle a class
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Elizabeth Merrill, ESPN Senior WriterOct 22, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Elizabeth Merrill is a senior writer for ESPN. She previously wrote for The Kansas City Star and The Omaha World-Herald. IT WAS GETTING late the night of Sept. 12, and Dr. Julian Bailes had settled in to watch a little football. The renowned neurosurgeon
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Associated Press Oct 22, 2024, 06:49 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BASEL, Switzerland — Stefanos Tsitsipas and Holger Rune kept alive their slim hopes of reaching the ATP Finals with wins at the Swiss Indoors tournament on Tuesday. Tsitsipas, ranked No. 11, outlasted Francisco Cerundolo 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4), while 14th-ranked Rune beat Nicolas
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Kyle Bonagura, ESPN Staff WriterOct 22, 2024, 03:08 PM ET Close Covers college football. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. Open Extended Reactions Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter is improving from a shoulder injury and is expected to have a larger role against Cincinnati this week after sitting out the second half against
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