Month: December 2020

9:46 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Alex Caruso will miss Monday’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers because of the league’s COVID-19 health and safety protocol, Los Angeles Lakers coach Frank Vogel said before the game. Caruso, who played 11 minutes in the Lakers’ 127-91 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday, was considered questionable
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9:24 PM ET Gonzaga star Jalen Suggs is out for the Bulldogs’ Monday night matchup against Northern Arizona due to what the program called a right leg injury. Suggs suffered the injury in Saturday’s 98-75 win over Virginia, the team said. He finished with eight points, six assists and four steals in 29 minutes in
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8:52 PM ET NEW YORK — Memphis Grizzlies star point guard Ja Morant left the Barclays Center court area in a wheelchair Monday night after spraining his left ankle in the second quarter. The team announced he would not return to the game. Morant went up to attempt to block Brooklyn forward Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot‘s shot
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6:23 PM ET Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford said any decision on whether or not he’ll play against the Minnesota Vikings in Sunday’s season finale will be based on his health after he injured his right ankle on the first series of Saturday’s loss to Tampa Bay. It’s Stafford’s third significant injury of the season.
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8:00 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Barring what San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan would call a shocking development, quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo has played his final snap of the 2020 NFL season as he continues to work his way back from a high ankle sprain. That doesn’t mean, however, that Garoppolo has played his
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7:24 PM ET Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jared Goff underwent surgery on his broken right thumb Monday in Los Angeles and is unlikely to play Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. If he can’t play Sunday, Goff could return for the playoffs if the Rams advance. John Wolford is Goff’s backup
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6:27 PM ET ESPN News Services Chicago Blackhawks forward Kirby Dach will miss four to five months after having surgery Monday on a fractured right wrist, the team said. Dach, playing for Team Canada, was hurt during an exhibition win last week against Russia ahead of the world junior championships. The 19-year-old was injured on
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6:24 PM ET WBC and IBF light heavyweight titlist Artur Beterbiev’s Jan. 30 fight against Adam Deines has been postponed after Beterbiev tested positive for COVID-19. The 35-year-old was scheduled to make his fourth defense of the IBF title and first defense of the WBC title he won in 2019 by TKO over Oleksandr Gvozdyk.
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6:47 PM ET Tiom VanHaaren Michigan defensive end Aidan Hutchinson announced Monday that he is forgoing the NFL draft and will return to play another season for the Wolverines. Hutchinson, a junior, suffered a leg injury against Indiana in Michigan’s third game that required season-ending surgery. There were questions whether he would return to Michigan
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3:50 PM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Frank Gore‘s 16th NFL season is over, one week prematurely. His legendary career could be over, too. The 37-year-old running back suffered a lung contusion on Sunday and won’t be available for the New York Jets‘ season finale against the New England Patriots, according to coach Adam Gase.
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5:51 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN SEATTLE — The Seahawks have waived veteran defensive tackle Damon “Snacks” Harrison at his request. The team announced the move Monday, one day after Harrison was a healthy scratch for Seattle’s NFC West-clinching win over the Los Angeles Rams. “He’s decided to stop playing,” Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said Monday
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4:09 PM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — The Los Angeles Rams are expected to be short-handed in the backfield Sunday when they play the Arizona Cardinals with a playoff berth
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1:40 PM ET Alabama offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian was named the winner of the Broyles Award, which annually goes to college football’s top assistant coach. Sarkisian directed one of the most productive offenses in the country this season. The Crimson Tide averaged 49.7 points per game, second-highest in the FBS and No. 1 among teams
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2:09 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With the Kansas City Chiefs having clinched the AFC’s No. 1 playoff seed and a first-round playoff bye, coach Andy Reid said some starters wouldn’t play in Sunday’s final regular-season game against the Los Angeles Chargers at Arrowhead Stadium. Reid wasn’t specific about which players would be out
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2:25 PM ET Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey has been fined $50,000 for violating the NBA’s anti-tampering policy, the league office announced Monday. The fine is in response to a Dec. 20 tweet about Houston Rockets superstar James Harden. The tweet, which was deleted several minutes later, celebrated the one-year anniversary of
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