Month: November 2020

12:45 PM ET A day after placing three players on the reserve/COVID-19 list, the Pittsburgh Steelers have more positive tests, including one from running back James Conner, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Saturday. They are awaiting the results of a rerun test, but Conner is in good health at this time, the source
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12:44 PM ET Poland’s Adrian Meronk will go into the final round of the European Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Championship with a slender one-shot lead at Leopard Creek Country Club after overcoming a difficult start to card a 71 on Saturday. Meronk, whose only win on tour came at the Open de Portugal last year, bogeyed
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12:38 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Ahead of training camps opening up across the NBA next week, the league has compiled a comprehensive health and safety protocol for the 2020-21 NBA season and sent it to its teams. The document, which was obtained by ESPN, is 134 pages long, and is similar to the one the
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11:58 AM ET Browns chief of staff Callie Brownson will take over coaching Cleveland’s tight ends Sunday, after the wife of tight end coach Drew Petzing gave birth to their first child Saturday morning. The team announced that Petzing will not make the trip for Cleveland’s game in Jacksonville against the Jaguars, and that Brownson
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11:20 AM ET A day after a positive COVID-19 test canceled this weekend’s UFC main event, another positive test has forced a change in next weekend’s UFC main event. Kevin Holland is out of the Dec. 5 headliner middleweight match versus Jack Hermansson, he announced on social media Saturday morning. As a result, the current
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10:54 AM ET The Virginia–Florida State football game was postponed on Saturday morning after positive coronavirus tests and contact trace quarantines with the Seminoles — the second straight week they had a game postponed hours before kickoff. ACC protocols state that teams must be tested the day before competition. Those tests are conducted by an
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9:26 AM ET Howard is shutting down Makur Maker indefinitely due to a groin injury, according to coach Kenneth Blakeney. Maker, a five-star recruit (No. 16) who when he committed to Howard became the highest-ranked college basketball prospect to commit to a historically Black college or university since the ESPN recruiting database started in 2007,
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1:57 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians said Friday that backup center A.Q. Shipley, who started the past two games, is done for the year and has been advised not to continue playing football. Shipley, 34, suffered a neck injury late in the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Rams
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5:52 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN Seattle Seahawks All-Pro safety Jamal Adams says he’s been “playing with one arm” for the past two weeks because of a shoulder injury. “It’s OK,” Adams said Friday. “It’s whatever it takes.” Adams said the injury occurred on the first play of the Seahawks’ loss to the Los Angeles Rams
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10:42 PM ET Ohio State has canceled Saturday’s game at Illinois because of a COVID-19 outbreak within the No. 4 Buckeyes’ program, and they have paused all team-related activities indefinitely after additional positive tests were revealed Friday evening, the school announced. Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith, university president Kristina M. Johnson and head team
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9:20 PM ET Team facilities will be closed to all in-person activities Monday and Tuesday, the NFL said Friday in a leaguewide memo. The ban does not apply to teams scheduled to play on Monday or Tuesday. The NFL cited the spike in coronavirus cases around the country as well as the “understanding that a
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