Month: January 2021

4:56 PM ET The Dallas Stars will open their season Jan. 22 against the Nashville Predators after their first four games had to be rescheduled due to a COVID-19 outbreak on the team. In training camp, 17 members of the Stars tested positive for COVID-19, which forced the team to shut down its facilities for
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4:55 PM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University The Atlanta Falcons have agreed to terms with Arthur Smith to be the team’s new head coach, it was announced Friday. Smith has served as the offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans
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5:03 PM ET Amid thinning rosters in the darkest days of the coronavirus pandemic, the NBA is progressing toward an expansion of regular-season rosters, sources told ESPN. The NBA and National Basketball Players Association must still agree on the details of granting teams an additional two-way roster spot for the balance of the regular season,
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4:49 PM ET The World Golf Championship event scheduled for Mexico City is being moved for one year to Florida due to the coronavirus pandemic. The sponsors of the WGC-Mexico Championship, Grupo Salinas, did not want to play at Chapultepec Golf Club – where the tournament relocated to in 2017 – due to restrictions that
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4:33 PM ET NEW YORK — After a turbulent ending to his tenure with the Rockets, new Brooklyn Nets guard James Harden said Friday that he doesn’t believe he was disrespectful to anyone at the end of his career in Houston but regrets the way the situation unfolded. “I’ve been there for a very long
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4:37 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh men’s basketball team suspended freshman forward John Hugley indefinitely for disciplinary reasons on Friday following his arrest on felony charges stemming from an incident last summer. Hugley, who is from Cleveland, is facing two counts of felony criminal conspiracy and one felony count of receiving stolen
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3:16 PM 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 Alexander Povetkin and Dillian Whyte will face each other in a heavyweight rematch on March 6, promoter Matchroom announced Friday. Despite the United Kingdom
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2:28 PM ET One of boxing’s top events in early 2021 is officially canceled. The Jan. 30 bout between former light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev and Bek Melikuziev has been nixed after Kovalev failed a drug test because of banned substances, Golden Boy Promotions announced on Friday. 2 Related Kovalev was informed earlier this week
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3:50 PM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller is the subject of a police investigation in Parker, Colorado. Police in the southeast suburb of Denver confirmed Friday that Miller is under investigation, saying that “if the investigation determines a crime has occurred charges will be submitted to the DA’s office for their
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3:11 PM ET ESPN News Services Slugging outfielder Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees avoided arbitration when they agreed Friday to a one-year contract worth $10,175,000, according to multiple reports. Judge had his third straight injury-interrupted season since winning the 2017 American League Rookie of the Year award, hitting .257 with nine homers and
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2:19 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Football is returning in the Western Athletic Conference, this time at the Championship Subdivision level. The league announced this week that it would add four schools from the Southland Conference and one from the Big Sky to bring its membership to 13. The five new members will join
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2:44 PM ET Associated Press South Carolina men’s basketball coach Frank Martin is frustrated after testing positive for COVID-19 a second time since May. Martin will miss the Gamecocks’ game at LSU on Saturday, but expects to be out of isolation and back with the team Monday. Assistant coach Chuck Martin, and Doug Edwards, who
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3:41 PM ET Just a month after the ACC hired a new commissioner, its longest serving athletics director is also retiring. Duke AD Kevin White announced he would step down in August after leading the Blue Devils’ athletics since 2008, and university president Vincent Price said the school would soon begin a national search for
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2:17 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — New NASCAR team Trackhouse Racing has brought entertainer Pitbull on as an ownership partner for an organization making its debut next month at the Daytona 500. Trackhouse made the Friday announcement with a video on Twitter in which the Grammy winner is featured dancing to an “I
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2:40 PM ET ESPN News Services Los Angeles Dodgers star Cody Bellinger has agreed to a one-year, $16.1 million contract Friday with the World Series champions to avoid salary arbitration, according to multiple reports. The Dodgers outfielder and first baseman was the 2019 National League MVP and 2017 NL Rookie of the Year. He hit
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