Month: December 2020

1:28 PM ET Virginia Tech coach Justin Fuente will return for his sixth season with the Hokies, athletic director Whit Babcock said Tuesday. The Hokies went 5-6 this season, and there was some question about whether Fuente would be given more time to get the program turned around. Babcock said he spent four hours meeting
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1:30 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Back-to-back NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo has committed to the Milwaukee Bucks long-term. Antetokounmpo agreed to sign a five-year, $228 million supermax extension with the Bucks on Tuesday, he announced on Twitter, with the terms being confirmed by agent Alex Saratsis to ESPN. The deal includes an opt out after the
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12:29 PM ET One bettor’s bad beat is another’s fortunate win. The last play of the Monday night thriller between the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns produced both. A desperation, multi-lateral play by the Browns as time expired resulted in a safety for the Ravens that covered the spread and swung millions of dollars in
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11:41 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Ronald Jones is undergoing a procedure Tuesday morning to have a pin inserted into his left pinkie finger, a source said Tuesday. Jones suffered a fractured pinkie early in the game against the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, when he was blocking. He was able
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8:55 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Callum Smith insists he has the size and ability to make Canelo Alvarez think again about fighting above the middleweight division. The 6-foot-3 English
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10:17 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Baltimore Ravens quarterback Trace McSorley did not appear to suffer a season-ending knee injury Monday night, a source said. McSorley will have an MRI on Tuesday, but It is believed that McSorley sprained his knee late in the Ravens’ 47-42 win at the Cleveland Browns. When McSorley was
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4:29 PM ET Arsenal have moulded the club’s off-field structure around Mikel Arteta. Now it is time to do the same with the playing staff. It’s been 95 days since the Gunners effectively promoted a 38-year-old with no previous experience of leading a club from “head coach” to “manager.” While that decision slipped under the
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9:10 AM ET For the first time in more than a century, Indiana and Purdue won’t play for the Old Oaken Bucket. In a joint statement Tuesday, the Hoosiers and Boilermakers announced that they’ve canceled Friday’s scheduled game in Bloomington, Indiana, because of COVID-19 concerns in both programs. The game was originally scheduled for Dec.
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7:00 AM ET The National Hockey League’s young talent pool is basically as deep as the Mariana Trench at this point. There are franchise players, superstars, championship building blocks and game-changers in those depths, and more arrive every year in the draft. Consider that last year’s list of the top 25 players under 25 years
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