Month: November 2020

1:15 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers have a new home, at least for their next two games. As had been expected since Santa Clara County announced on Saturday new COVID-19-related restrictions that prevent contact sports in the county for at least the next three weeks, the Niners announced Monday morning
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12:55 PM ET Indiana starting quarterback Michael Penix Jr. will miss the remainder of the season after suffering a torn ACL in Saturday’s win against Maryland. Coach Tom Allen on Monday confirmed the injury, which is to the same ligament Penix tore as a true freshman in 2018. He ended up redshirting the season. Penix
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12:57 PM ET The Denver Broncos had no new positive coronavirus tests coming out of Sunday testing, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The Broncos were without their entire quarterback depth chart for Sunday’s loss to the Saints due to the positive test of backup quarterback Jeff Driskel and the fact that the team’s three
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11:49 AM GMT France will be without a number of their top players for the Autumn Nations Cup final against England after coach Fabien Galthie confirmed he would not be seeking to change a rule that restricts players from competing in more than three international games. The agreement with the Top 14 means that Galthie
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9:26 AM ET Walk into any NHL locker room today and you’ll hear a cacophony of languages and accents from around the world. Rewind 50 years ago and the acoustics were much different. Take the 1970 Stanley Cup champions, the Boston Bruins. Their roster had more Canadians than a season of “Letterkenny,” with U.K. native
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12:19 PM ET The first Associated Press men’s college basketball poll of the regular season remained steady at the top. The rest, predictably, was filled with change as teams exceeded or failed to live up to preseason expectations. Gonzaga and Baylor remained Nos. 1-2 in the poll released Monday. The Zags received 57 of 63
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11:33 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Rigoberto Sanchez will miss an unspecified amount of time to have a cancerous tumor removed, the Colts punter announced on Instagram on Monday. “So grateful to be surrounded by doctors that helped me catch the cancerous tumor before it spread all over my body,” Sanchez wrote on Instagram. “… Unfortunately,
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10:54 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball is creating a minor league for top eligible prospects leading to the summer draft. The wood-bat MLB Draft League is launching with five teams and could add a sixth, MLB said Monday. Teams will play a 68-game regular season that includes an All-Star break
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10:19 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The NFL canceled the Baltimore Ravens‘ practice for Monday morning, a day before the team is scheduled to play the undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The Ravens are in the midst of one of the biggest coronavirus outbreaks in professional sports with at least
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9:19 AM ET ESPN News Services Three-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka will be starring in a new Japanese manga comic book series as a cartoon character in a magazine for teenage girls. Osaka’s sister, Mari, helped produce “Unrivaled Naomi Tenka-ichi” — or “world number one” — which will be running in “Nakayosi” magazine starting
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