Month: November 2020

7:00 AM ET John GasawayESPN Insider Close ESPN Insider college basketball contributor First began covering college hoops in 2004 Has written for Basketball Prospectus and the Wall Street Journal Forgive me for being giddy, but we are now just days away from seeing college basketball being played. It seems like decades ago that the sport
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5:22 AM ET In an unprecedented meeting, a delegation of five NBA players and several officials from the National Basketball Players Association are at the Vatican this morning for a private audience with Pope Francis to discuss their work on social justice issues. An intermediary for Pope Francis reached out to the players association last
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11:49 PM ET Patrick Mahomes picked a good time to throw the first go-ahead touchdown pass in a game’s final two minutes of his career. Mahomes’ 22-yard touchdown pass to Travis Kelce with 28 seconds left lifted the Kansas City Chiefs to a 35-31 win over the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday night. 1 Related
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12:12 AM ET John Thompson Jr.’s death in August was a significant loss for college basketball. But the legendary leader’s legacy will be highlighted with a heartwarming gesture this week. Multiple Black head coaches will wear a towel over their right shoulder during their season-opening games to honor Thompson, sources told ESPN on Sunday. Thompson’s
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10:41 PM ET Marquez Valdes-Scantling‘s fumble on the second play of overtime to set up the Indianapolis Colts’ game-winning field came just moments after the Green Bay Packers receiver hauled in a 47-yard deep ball from Aaron Rodgers that led to the game-tying field goal in the final seconds of regulation. That’s Valdes-Scantling in a
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9:02 PM ET DENVER — With Hall of Fame running back Floyd Little in hospice care, Denver Broncos coach Vic Fangio announced to his players after the team’s 20-13 win over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday that a game ball would be sent to Little and his family. Little, whose cancer diagnosis was announced this
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6:21 PM ET The Memphis Grizzlies re-signed guard De’Anthony Melton to a multiyear deal, the team announced Sunday. The deal is worth $35 million over four years, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Bobby Marks. Melton’s salary will start at $9.6 million and decline each year, sources say. Melton was a second-round draft pick of Phoenix in
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9:13 PM ET Free agent Aron Baynes and the Toronto Raptors have agreed to a two-year, $14.3 million deal with a team option for the second year, his agent, Daniel Moldovan, told ESPN’s Bobby Marks. Baynes fills an immediate need for Toronto at center with the departure of Marc Gasol to the Los Angeles Lakers.
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7:28 PM ET Tim Melia stopped all three penalty-kick attempts he faced as No. 1 seed Sporting Kansas City advanced with a shootout victory over eighth-seeded San Jose Earthquakes in the opening round of the MLS Playoffs. Sporting converted all three of their penalty-kick attempts after regular time and 30 minutes of extra time ended
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7:47 PM ET The Dallas Cowboys snapped a four-game losing streak with a 31-28 win Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings, and all of a sudden find themselves in the NFC East chase. No team in the division has more than three wins. The Philadelphia Eagles, who lost to the Cleveland Browns on Sunday, are in
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8:01 PM ET The Los Angeles Lakers are finalizing a two-year deal with center Marc Gasol, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Zach Lowe. L.A. is trading center JaVale McGee and a future second-round pick to the Cavaliers to help make room for Gasol, a source told Wojnarowski. Cleveland is sending Jordan Bell and Alfonzo
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