Month: May 2020

3:53 PM ET The Chicago Bears have declined the fifth-year option on quarterback Mitchell Trubisky for the 2021 season, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Saturday. The second overall pick of the 2017 NFL draft, Trubisky finished the year 28th in total QBR (39.4), tied for 27th in touchdown passes (17), 21st in passing
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3:38 PM BST Bill Beaumont has been re-elected as World Rugby chairman for another four years, the governing body announced on Saturday. Beaumont, 68, defeated former Argentina captain Agustin Pichot by 28 votes to 23 to secure a second consecutive term. “I am honoured to accept the mandate of the World Rugby Council to serve
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2:07 PM ET Shaquill Griffin and Shaquem Griffin were used to hearing cheers from students while playing for the UCF Knights prior to their NFL careers. On Saturday, they returned the favor. The identical twins, who both play for the Seattle Seahawks, delivered an unscripted 8-minute commencement speech for the university’s virtual graduation ceremony that
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2:17 PM ET Less than a month after advising that all combat sports should be postponed due to COVID-19, the Association of Ringside Physicians (ARP) is relaxing its stance. On Saturday, the ARP released a statement that is more agreeable with combat sports resuming — as long as added precautions are taken. The ARP is
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1:40 PM ET ESPN News Services KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas and Missouri are resuming their football rivalry after the former Big 12 foes agreed to a four-game series in which each school will play two home games beginning in September 2025. The fourth-longest rivalry in college football dates to 1891, but it has been
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Seeing drivers in race suits, wearing custom-designed helmets and celebrating on the podium may have been put on hold for now. But that doesn’t mean a total lack of Formula 1 content. It’s just a bit… different. And by different, we mean bizarre. As lockdown restrictions continue around the world, here’s part two of how
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1:15 PM ET As the NBA seeks solutions to return to action during the coronavirus pandemic, teams are weighing scenarios for potential games with only essential personnel present. Perhaps a key factor in such decisions, beyond titles or responsibilities, is the health and age of those staffers, NBA general managers told ESPN. One NBA general
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8:00 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1939, Lou Gehrig’s consecutive game streak ends at 2,130. Gehrig is known as “The Iron Horse,” which he
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7:37 AM ET Texas A&M quarterback Kellen Mond believes his team is on the verge of making a leap in 2020 like LSU did last season, when the Tigers went from 10-3 to a 15-0 national title campaign. “We really haven’t won the big-time games yet,” Mond told The Dallas Morning News for a story
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6:20 AM ET Andy Murray has backed Roger Federer‘s call to merge the men’s and women’s tours, saying that many top male players believe it will be a positive step for tennis. “When you have a lot of the top male players now starting to discuss and talk about it, that’s definitely very promising,” he
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12:35 AM ET The NHL is aggressively making its case to skeptical teams that holding the 2020 Entry Draft before a restarted season is essential. In a memo to teams on Friday, as first reported by Sportsnet, deputy commissioner Bill Daly detailed several factors in support of moving up the draft. The league has targeted
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