Month: November 2020

11:51 AM ET Miami Heat center Kelly Olynyk has exercised his $13.6 million player option for the 2020-21 season, a source tells ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Olynyk, 29, averaged 8.2 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 69 games for the Heat last season, his third with the team. He averaged 7.6 points, 4.6 rebounds and
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9:31 AM ET A former LSU women’s tennis player has accused her former coach of lying about her knowledge of a Tigers football player physically abusing her between May 2017 and August 2018, and accused the coach of “betraying” her during an investigation. The former player, Jade Lewis, 21, of Hilton Head, South Carolina, posted
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10:03 AM ET CHICAGO — Seven years after filing the paperwork, Wrigley Field is to be given federal landmark status in the National Register of Historic Places, according to sources familiar with the story. The move will give owners of the Chicago Cubs, the Ricketts family, access to federal income tax credits on the recently
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10:12 AM ET The Michigan State–Maryland game is being canceled because of COVID-19 concerns with Maryland. The game will be declared a no contest. Maryland also announced Thursday that head coach Mike Locksley tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday and is isolating at home. “I am gutted for our team and for our fans,” Locksley
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8:46 AM ET Memphis Grizzlies forwards Jaren Jackson Jr. and Justise Winslow will not be ready for the start of the upcoming season. Grizzlies vice president of basketball operations Zach Kleiman told reporters Wednesday night that Jackson and Winslow will still be recovering from injuries when the 2020-21 season starts next month. Kleiman said it
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8:35 AM ET Associated Press Tiger Woods still has one tournament left this year that might feel as big as any to him. The PNC Championship announced Thursday that Woods will play with 11-year-old son Charlie in the tournament that has paired major champions with their sons since 1995, the year before the 44-year-old Woods
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8:52 AM ET Katie Taylor, an Olympic gold medalist, two-weight world champion and current undisputed lightweight champion of the world, is now ESPN’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter. Taylor dominated Miriam Gutierrez to score a one-sided unanimous decision victory on Nov. 14. That win impressed most of our voters and pushed her past Claressa Shields for
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7:35 AM ET Brady Henderson Josh Weinfuss Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered the Cardinals since 2012 Graduate of Indiana University Member of Pro Football Writers of America Bobby Wagner sat inside a hotel conference room at the NFL’s 2012 rookie symposium and listened to one horror story after another. The league’s annual onboarding program for
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12:43 PM GMT Daniel Brettig Close Assistant editor, ESPNcricinfo Assistant editor Daniel Brettig had been a journalist for eight years when he joined ESPNcricinfo, but his fascination with cricket dates back to the early 1990s, when his dad helped him sneak into the family lounge room to watch the end of day-night World Series matches
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