Month: January 2021

6:54 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN On the eve of his 2020-21 NBA preseason finale in December, Victor Oladipo participated in a funeral for his injured knee. The service was held to say goodbye to an injury mindset, which was weighing on the two-time All-Star guard’s pursuit of fully recovering from a ruptured quad tendon in
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8:23 PM ET Indiana Pacers star Domantas Sabonis exited Monday’s game against the Toronto Raptors with a left knee contusion, but X-rays revealed no structural damage, a source told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Sabonis left the game after banging his knee. He was officially ruled out with a left knee contusion. An MRI is planned for
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7:24 PM ET Tom Brady has won more Super Bowl MVPs than any other player, but he’s not the favorite for the award in Super Bowl LV. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is the odds-on favorite to be named MVP of this year’s Super Bowl, listed at -120 at Caesars Sportsbook by William Hill.
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7:42 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN Monday night’s game between the San Antonio Spurs and New Orleans Pelicans has been postponed, the league announced less than two hours before the scheduled tipoff at Smoothie King Center. According to the NBA, “because of ongoing contract tracing within both the Spurs and Pelicans, neither team has the league-required
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5:58 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” After sending a letter to Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred that suggested delaying spring training “to allow for the COVID-19 situation to improve here,” Cactus League executive director Bridget Binsbacher told
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6:36 PM ET LSU is expected to hire Minnesota Vikings defensive backs coach Daronte Jones as defensive coordinator, sources told ESPN. Jones, who completed his first season with the Vikings after two seasons with both the Cincinnati Bengals and Miami Dolphins, replaces Bo Pelini, who was fired after just one year at LSU. As ESPN
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5:44 PM ET The PGA of America has named Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the host site for the 2022 PGA Championship, replacing Trump Bedminster, which was dropped by the organization two weeks ago. The tournament, which will be held May 19-22, 2022, will be played at a longtime major championship venue that
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11:37 AM ET The biggest news of the weekend wasn’t a game, but the word that Chelsea are moving on from Frank Lampard as manager, with former PSG and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel set to take over. Elsewhere we saw Real Madrid‘s veterans play a key role in a much-needed win, Liverpool and Man
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5:33 PM ET The NBA and National Basketball Players Association are discussing the possibility of still holding an All-Star Game in early March — possibly in Atlanta, sources tell ESPN. The traditional All-Star Weekend — originally set for Indianapolis in February — was canceled because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but sources tell ESPN there
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5:22 PM ET Associated Press BLACKSBURG, Va. — Virginia Tech has indefinitely suspended starting guard Tyrece Radford from all men’s basketball team activities. In a release Monday, school school officials said Radford failed to uphold “the high standards Virginia Tech has for its students and athletes.” The release also stated there would be no further
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4:10 PM GMT Italy head coach Franco Smith has named a 32-man squad for the Six Nations, but will be without star full-back Matteo Minozzi after the Wasps player opted out of the tournament. Minozzi, who has scored 11 tries in 22 caps for his country, wrote on social media that he was “physically and
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4:39 PM ET Alabama coach Nick Saban announced the addition of another former NFL head coach to his staff on Monday. Doug Marrone, who led the Jacksonville Jaguars for the last four seasons before being fired earlier this month, will coach the offensive line. 1 Related “We are extremely fortunate to be able to add
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4:23 PM ET Associated Press With more female referees now in the NBA than ever before, it was only a matter of time before two women would be scheduled to work the same game. And Monday is that day. Natalie Sago and Jenna Schroeder make up two-thirds of the crew assigned to the Charlotte at
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2:53 PM ET Associated Press Investment bank Citi decided Monday to keep its sponsorship of Justin Thomas, condemning the anti-gay slur he muttered and requiring him to donate a “meaningful portion” of his deal as part of an active role in LGBTQ causes. Carla Hassan, the chief marketing officer of New York-based Citi, announced the
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2:48 PM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN BUFFALO, N.Y. — Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley played the team’s three postseason games on a partially broken fibula, he told reporters Monday afternoon. Beasley suffered the injury late in Buffalo’s win over the New England Patriots in Week 16. It was classified then as a knee injury, and he
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11:20 AM GMT Ireland included Tadhg Furlong in their squad for this year’s Six Nations as coach Andy Farrell said on Monday that the British and Irish Lions prop was ready to join the group despite last playing almost a year ago. Furlong has not played since last year’s Six Nations and his club, Leinster,
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