11:46 PM ET Philadelphia 76ers guard Seth Curry returned a positive test for the coronavirus, which the team learned of near the start of its 122-109 loss to the Nets in Brooklyn on Thursday night, sources told ESPN. The Sixers are staying overnight in New York and will commence contact tracing Friday morning, sources said.
Month: January 2021
7:06 PM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — While the Buffalo Bills spent the past 25 years without hosting an NFL playoff game, Valentino Dixon spent most of it imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. Dixon, a big Bills fan, missed most of the team’s Super Bowl runs in the 1990s and
10:30 PM ET Following the postmortems of a year that couldn’t end fast enough, the first week of 2021 has not provided a balm for 2020 as much as it has amplified last year’s relentlessness. For Black America in general, and Black athletes in particular, the year has begun with a series of events that
8:37 PM ET UFC fighter Irwin Rivera was arrested Thursday on two counts of attempted murder, according to an incident report obtained by ESPN. He was booked just after Noon local time after being apprehended by the Boynton Beach Police Department and is being held without bail, per online jail records. Boynton Beach Police Department
9:25 AM ET Manchester United forward Edinson Cavani was banned for three games and fined £100,000 by the English Football Association, despite a three-man Regulatory Commission finding “no intent on the part of the player to be discriminatory or offensive in any way” while posting a message to a friend on social media. Uruguay international
2:03 PM ET I warned you about Myles Turner. In my Bold Prediction for this season, I told you that Turner was custom-built for ESPN.com’s new points-based system. That Turner would be a top-30 player. And that he would outperform Rudy Gobert and Bam Adebayo. Seven games in, I think we can go ahead and
9:31 PM ET Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has spoken with NBA commissioner Adam Silver and is “pretty optimistic” the city is moving toward landing an expansion franchise to replace the SuperSonics. Silver said in a news conference last month that the NBA was dusting off its long dormant expansion consideration and had put more time
8:25 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Frozen Tundra won’t be the completely empty tundra for the playoffs. The Green Bay Packers announced Thursday that approximately 6,000 ticketed fans will be allowed to attend the team’s first playoff game, either Jan. 16 or 17 in the NFC divisional round. The Packers had not allowed
7:55 PM ET As Alabama prepares for Monday’s national championship game, multiple Crimson Tide players were honored with individual awards Thursday at the Home Depot College Football Awards. As expected, Heisman Trophy winner DeVonta Smith won the Fred Biletnikoff Award (best receiver), while quarterback Mac Jones (Davey O’Brien) and left tackle Alex Leatherwood (Outland) were
8:25 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. — “Good” was the word at the Los Angeles Rams‘ practice facility Thursday when quarterback Jared Goff spoke with reporters for the first time
6:35 PM ET Free-agent forward Taj Gibson is re-signing with the New York Knicks, his agent, Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports, tells ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Terms of the contract were not disclosed. The Knicks also waived forward Omari Spellman on Thursday. Spellman hasn’t appeared in a game this season. The Knicks had waived Gibson before
5:56 PM ET Associated Press DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Tommy Paul made the most of his home-court advantage Thursday, sweeping Ji Sung Nam of South Korea 6-1, 6-4 in the first round at the Delray Beach Open. Paul, who lives in Delray Beach, came into the tournament seeded fifth and ranked a career-high No. 52.
7:11 PM ET UFC bantamweight champion Petr Yan will seek the first defense of his 135-pound title when he meets Aljamain Sterling at UFC 259 on March 6, sources confirmed to ESPN. Both sides have agreed to the matchup, which was originally scheduled for UFC 256 on Dec. 12, but Yan was forced to withdraw
Sydney Thunder have had two of their home matches moved to Canberra © Getty Images Three BBL matches that had been set to be staged in Sydney have been moved to Canberra due to the ongoing border restrictions. The fate of the remaining matches in Sydney has not yet been decided but it remains probable
7:19 PM ET By hiring former New England Patriots executive Nick Caserio to solve a large set of problems within the organization, the Houston Texans have created additional ones with star quarterback Deshaun Watson. Watson offered his input on potential general manager candidates, but the Texans neither considered nor consulted with those endorsed by their
6:39 PM ET WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney said he doesn’t believe his mandatory challenger, Ryan Garcia, is willing to fight him next, and he’s begun shifting his attention to a potential bout with unified lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez for all the belts in the division. Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs) is coming off a seventh-round
5:00 PM ET On Nov. 1, Manchester United sat in 15th place in the Premier League, having lost three of their first six matches. At the same time, they were sitting as pretty as possible in Champions League play, having already beaten PSG and RB Leipzig. According to FiveThirtyEight, their odds of winning the Premier
6:29 PM ET Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving did not play against the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday night due to personal reasons. Speaking to reporters an hour and 45 minutes before tipoff, coach Steve Nash said he “just found out” that Irving would not be playing. “I sent him a message in the last
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