Month: December 2020

10:40 AM ET The Houston Rockets and NBA are reviewing video of James Harden partying maskless at a strip club to determine if he violated the league’s COVID-19 protocols, putting the perennial All-Star’s availability for Houston’s season opener Wednesday night in question, sources told ESPN. The video, which was published by Black Sports Online and
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10:36 AM ET Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Louisiana-Monroe is set to hire former Auburn coach Terry Bowden as its
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10:54 AM ET Florida linebacker James Houston IV on Tuesday took a shot at Oklahoma ahead of their meeting in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on Dec. 30. Houston, a redshirt junior, was asked about playing in Big 12 territory at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and said he wasn’t worried about having home-field advantage.
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10:54 AM ET New England Patriots quarterbacks coach Jedd Fisch is being named the new head coach at the University of Arizona, sources tell ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Field Yates. Arizona is expected to announce the hiring at some point Wednesday, according to Schefter and Yates. Fisch, 44, will replace recently fired head coach Kevin
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7:11 AM ET ANTHONY EDWARDS SAT in his living room in Atlanta, waiting for his life to change. It was Nov. 18 — NBA draft night — and with colorful, beautiful murals of his late grandmother and mother on each side of him, Edwards became the No. 1 pick and prepared to join the Minnesota
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9:15 AM ET Several Detroit Lions coaches have been deemed close contacts due to contact tracing following two positive COVID-19 tests Tuesday and will be staying away from the facility until further notice, the franchise announced in a statement Wednesday morning. Detroit did not say which coaches would be away from the facility, although a
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7:00 AM ET The most significant number of the 2020 baseball season was 60 — the number of games most teams played in this pandemic-ravaged year. The Los Angeles Dodgers finally earned their place as World Series champions, and after going 43-17 in the regular season — a record-tying 116-win pace — a lingering question
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8:29 AM ET Atlanta Hawks guard Rajon Rondo will miss Wednesday’s season opener against the Chicago Bulls because of the NBA’s coronavirus-related protocols. Rondo is listed as out because of “health and safety protocols” on the NBA’s official injury report. The Hawks have not announced a reason for Rondo’s absence, but The Athletic reported Tuesday
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7:32 AM ET New Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey shared concern that his career in the NBA might have been over after sharing a post on social media that expressed support for a protest group in Hong Kong. “In the last 12 months, I had moments where I thought I might never
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News ICC “haven’t been interested in working with us on a fair outcome,” says players’ body chief executive The Federation of International Cricketers’ Association (FICA) has begun legal proceedings against the ICC, claiming that the latter’s use of player image rights is not fair. That has looked the likely outcome of the dispute for some
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