Month: May 2020

8:58 PM ET Defensive end Najee Story, No. 250 in the ESPN’s Junior 300 rankings, committed to Northwestern, he announced on social media Sunday. Calling his recruiting process “a long journey full of twists and turns” in a tweet, Story, a 6-foot-4, 235-pound lineman from Solon High School (Ohio) chose the Wildcats over Ohio State,
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7:52 PM ET Tampa Bay Rays ace Blake Snell won the inaugural MLB The Show Players League on Sunday with a three-game sweep against the Chicago White Sox‘s Lucas Giolito in the best-of-five championship series. Snell’s Rays beat Giolito’s White Sox 5-1 in Game 1, 3-2 in Game 2 and 6-0 in Game 3. The
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5:24 PM ET Associated Press The NHL could face another hurdle if the league decides to continue the 2019-20 season in the near future — getting non-Canadian resident players across the border to join their teams. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday that players would — at a minimum — need to follow quarantine protocols
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5:12 PM ET Associated Press A couple of weeks ago, former Montreal Canadiens tough guy Georges Laraque was running five or six days a week as he trained for a marathon. Now, the former NHL enforcer’s biggest challenge is trying to breathe clearly as he fights coronavirus from a hospital in Montreal. “Now I can’t
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3:34 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — William Byron showed he’s the sharpest gamer in NASCAR’s iRacing Series with his third victory in four events. Byron passed Timmy Hill with seven laps remaining at virtual Dover International Speedway, where NASCAR was scheduled to actually race Sunday, to win yet again on the iRacing platform.
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1:48 PM ET The Kansas City Chiefs added another developmental quarterback to serve as a backup to Patrick Mahomes by agreeing to contract terms with undrafted rookie Shea Patterson of Michigan, agent Bryan Ehrlich announced Sunday. The Chiefs also recently signed Jordan Ta’amu, who played with the St. Louis BattleHawks of the XFL. Veteran Chad
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10:13 PM IST Valkerie Baynes For Katie Levick, the Women’s Hundred represents a chance to prove what might have been. Having turned her back on a potential international career for financial reasons when she was 21, Yorkshire leg-spinner Levick was among the first domestic players chosen for a Northern Superchargers squad captained by England’s Lauren
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9:12 PM ET Andy Dalton is returning home. Released by the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday, Dalton agreed to a one-year deal with the Dallas Cowboys on Saturday, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The quarterback’s deal has a base value of $3 million and could be worth up to $7 million, the source said. Before
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6:19 PM ET Four days after detailing his diagnosis and treatments after having a cancerous tumor removed from his colon in March, Trey Mancini‘s Baltimore Orioles teammates joined him on a Zoom call on Saturday. Their message was simple for a player who wears No. 16 on the field: #F16HT The guys surprised Trey. #F16HT
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9:00 AM ET Under normal circumstances, every organization would have months of statistics and data through which to evaluate their prospects at summer’s end. Club officials would have a sense of how much the 19-year-old in Class A has refined a needed changeup, how the Double-A shortstop has cleaned up his erratic throwing and whether
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