Month: July 2020

11:45 AM ET David Wilson A “humble, remorseful” Mike Gundy has agreed to take a $1 million pay cut and amend his contract after a two-week review of the football program, Oklahoma State athletic director Mike Holder said Friday. “The changes were offered up by Mike Gundy and I commend them for that. It was
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11:50 AM ET Associated Press ZURICH — Seven ice hockey players have been suspended during an investigation into match-fixing in the Belarus league. The players — five from Belarus and two from Russia — told a domestic investigation they were paid to help arrange the outcome of a game in November, the International Ice Hockey
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9:45 AM ET Quite a few true freshmen became household names last college football season, including North Carolina quarterback Sam Howell, LSU cornerback Derek Stingley Jr., USC quarterback Kedon Slovis and Notre Dame safety Kyle Hamilton. While some of the prospects from the 2019 recruiting cycle got off to a fast start, it doesn’t mean
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7:00 AM ET The past three months, baseball has given us 1,000 reasons to hate it. In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, the players and owners have acted like petulant children bickering over money, settling scores and improving bargaining position for future negotiations instead of understanding that all that mattered this year was agreeing
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Jun 30, 2020 ESPN’s top pound-for-pound fighter has a new date to face one of boxing’s rising stars. Lightweight titlist Vasiliy Lomachenko is scheduled to face Teofimo Lopez in a unification bout on Sept. 19, Top Rank chief Bob Arum told ESPN’s Mark Kriegel. Lomachenko, who holds the WBO and WBA lightweight belts, was initially
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Jun 30, 2020 Three days after failing a drug test and having his July 9 fight against Jerry Forrest canceled, Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller made his first public comments about the failure, pushing back against the allegations. “I have never, ever willingly taken a steroid for performance-enhancing purposes,” Miller told Fight Network. “Did I take
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1:41 PM ET Steve KimESPN Heavyweight Carlos Takam will face Jerry Forrest in a 10-round heavyweight fight in the main event of a Top Rank on ESPN card on July 9 at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. Takam replaces Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller, who was scheduled to face Forrest before being pulled
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11:52 PM ET Steve KimESPN Former two-time world champion Jose Pedraza (27-3) was in excellent form on Thursday as he dominated Mikkel LesPierre, dropping his opponent twice in the 144-pound catchweight bout in the main event of a Top Rank card in Las Vegas. The scorecards read 100-88, 99-89 and 99-89 in favor of Pedraza,
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