Month: December 2020

12:04 AM ET Russell Westbrook drove the lane, found Thomas Bryant open for an easy dunk while the Washington Wizards‘ big man was fouled and then immediately ran to Bryant to scream his approval. In his first game with the Wizards, Westbrook only logged 17 first-half minutes in Washington’s 99-96 victory over the Detroit Pistons.
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10:43 PM ET Geoff Neal chased Stephen Thompson down near the cage. When he got close, Thompson ripped off a lightning-quick punching combination and then angled off before Neal could even start throwing punches. That sequence — Thompson playing matador and Neal the hapless bull — occurred over and over again Saturday in the main
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11:35 PM ET ESPN’s panel of Ariel Helwani, Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi and Jeff Wagenheim breaks down the biggest stories coming out of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night, including Stephen Thompson‘s convincing unanimous-decision win over Geoff Neal and two former champions earning key victories. Helwani: “Wonderboy” is no stepping-stone Considering what Geoff Neal overcame just three
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9:09 PM ET USC is opting out of bowl opportunities this season because of COVID-19 concerns and other reasons, the team announced Saturday. The 13th-ranked Trojans lost to Oregon in the Pac-12 championship game Friday night in Los Angeles. USC would have landed a New Year’s Six bowl berth if it had beaten Oregon to
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10:55 PM ET Rose Bowl officials announced Saturday that the College Football Playoff semifinal scheduled for the Rose Bowl will be moved to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The announcement came just hours after multiple outlets reported the Rose Bowl was denied a special exemption from the state of California to allow a few hundred
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5:53 PM ET The Baltimore Ravens activated three wide receivers — Marquise Brown, Miles Boykin and James Proche — a day before Sunday’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. All three had quarantined for five days after being identified as high-risk close contacts under the NFL’s COVID-19 protocols. Meanwhile, wide receivers coach David Culley will not
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10:04 PM ET DAVIE, Fla. — Miami Dolphins leading wide receiver DeVante Parker is expected to play Sunday vs. the New England Patriots despite a minor hamstring strain, a league source told ESPN. Parker suffered the hamstring injury in the second quarter of last Sunday’s loss to the Kansas City Chiefs and didn’t return, but
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8:23 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball payrolls plunged to $1.75 billion during the pandemic-shortened season from $4.22 billion, and the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers led with $98.6 million — the smallest for the top spender in 20 years. Base wages for 40-man rosters tumbled to $1.54 billion, according
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6:40 PM ET Associated Press The Rose Bowl was denied a special exemption from the state of California to allow a few hundred fans to attend the College Football Playoff semifinal Jan. 1, putting the game’s staying in Pasadena, California, in serious doubt. A person involved with organizing the game told The Associated Press the
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