Month: December 2020

7:00 AM ET ESPN’s 64-player “Greatest NHL Name” tournament bracket dropped this week and garnered the expected reaction from hockey fans: passion, amusement, obsession and countless people vehemently protesting that Slater Koekkoek should have been a No. 1 seed. To recap, we took some of the greatest names to grace NHL ice — and Ukko-Pekka
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6:55 AM ET ASHBURN, Va. — Before he received his dosage of radiation and underwent chemotherapy, Washington Football Team coach Ron Rivera received a simple but meaningful greeting at the front desk of the Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Fairfax, Virginia. It was an everyday gesture in a situation that wasn’t ordinary. Linda Carter, who
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2:14 AM ET Months ago, LeBron James bit his tongue when Kyrie Irving‘s comments on Kevin Durant‘s podcast seemed to disparage the Los Angeles Lakers star’s late-game abilities. Now James has opened up about his former teammate’s take on a podcast appearance of his own. James, appearing as a guest on the Road Trippin’ podcast
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12:08 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The Chicago White Sox acquired right-hander Lance Lynn in a trade with the Texas Rangers early Tuesday morning, sources told ESPN, bolstering their rotation with a veteran who led the major leagues
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10:30 PM GMT New Zealand’s twice Rugby World Cup-winning captain Richie McCaw was named Men’s 15s Player of the Decade by World Rugby. McCaw, who led the All Blacks to back-to-back World Cup titles in 2011 and 2015, saw off competition from former team mates Dan Carter, Kieran Read, Brodie Retallick and Beauden Barrett, as
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6:34 PM ET Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. — President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend this weekend’s Army-Navy football game in New York, the U.S. Naval Academy’s athletic director said Monday. The game on Saturday at the U.S. Military Academy’s home field in West Point, New York, will mark the first time the storied rivalry
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7:21 PM ET Saturday’s Ole Miss–Texas A&M football game has been postponed due to COVID-19 testing. According to a statement from the SEC, the postponement is a result of a combination of positive tests and contact tracing within the Ole Miss program. Rescheduling the game will be contingent on any cancellation of games currently scheduled
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