Month: December 2020

12:17 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Kobe Bryant, has denounced a lawsuit from her mother claiming she is owed years of pay for working as an unpaid assistant and support promised by the basketball legend, who was killed in a helicopter crash in January. Bryant issued a statement
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12:36 PM ET Florida State‘s tumultuous 2020 season has officially come to an end, with the ACC announcing Saturday’s game against Wake Forest has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns on the Seminoles’ roster. FSU informed the league office Friday morning that a positive test and contact tracing would leave the team without enough offensive
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12:08 PM ET Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said Friday if the Irish are chosen to make the College Football Playoff, they would consider not playing if families are not allowed to attend the semifinal game. During a Zoom call previewing the ACC championship game, Kelly made pointed remarks about the need to have families
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11:48 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Buccaneers starting left tackle Donovan Smith has been placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list and will not play against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. “I had a close contact with a family member who recently tested positive for COVID-19,” Smith said in a statement issued by the team. “As per
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10:00 AM ET ESPN News Services The Tampa Bay Rays have signed right-hander Michael Wacha to a one-year, $3 million contract, the team announced Friday. Wacha spent the 2020 season with the New York Mets, going 1-4 with a 6.62 ERA in eight appearances (seven starts). The 29-year-old Wacha shined as a rookie for the
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8:26 AM ET The NHL told its seven Canadian-based teams on Thursday that there is a possibility they will have to play in the United States this season due to roadblocks with Canadian health authorities, sources told ESPN. The NHL had been hoping to play a 56-game season starting on Jan. 13 with teams playing
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9:44 AM ET METAIRIE, La. — Drew Brees will return to the New Orleans Saints‘ starting lineup in time for Sunday’s marquee matchup against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The Saints believe Brees is fully healthy and doctors have cleared him to play, the source told Schefter.
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8:50 AM ET The UFC’s final event of 2020, which takes place Saturday in Las Vegas, was originally supposed to feature one of the scariest unranked welterweights on the planet against an established, veteran opponent. Well, even though the main event did change, the storyline around it remained the same. Two-time 170-pound title challenger Stephen
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10:46 AM ET Edin Terzic, a son of immigrant parents from the former Yugoslavia, is living the Dortmund dream. Like many other football-mad kids born and raised in Germany‘s industrial west, his formative years were often spent conjuring up mental images of scoring goals for his club of choice, of course the Schwarzgelben. While that
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