Month: February 2021

2:16 PM ET Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh on Thursday said he did not sense a disconnect among his staff or with players last season, but he cited his desire to make “improvements to everything” for hiring seven new assistants, including defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald. “I didn’t find any kind of disconnect, but wanted to
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2:03 PM ET Illinois star guard Ayo Dosunmu is out indefinitely after suffering a facial injury, the school announced Thursday. Dosunmu suffered the injury in Tuesday’s loss to Michigan State. He was fouled hard by Spartans freshman Mady Sissoko late in the game; Sissoko was ejected after being hit with a flagrant 2 foul. Dosunmu
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2:39 PM ET The NCAA announced policies for how it will handle coronavirus-related withdrawals from the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, saying it will not allow replacement teams after the tournament begins. There will be no reseedings or bracket changes once the bracket is released on Selection Sunday, and replacement teams will only be introduced within
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1:18 PM ET Triller just threw its name in the ring to promote the next fight of one of boxing’s rising stars. The upstart tech company won the rights to promote Teofimo Lopez’s lightweight title defense against George Kambosos with a bid of more than $6 million, a source told ESPN, confirming multiple reports. Triller,
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12:49 PM ET The Denver Broncos have released defensive tackle Jurrell Casey, the team announced Thursday. Casey, 31, played in only three games before suffering a season-ending torn biceps during the Broncos’ loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Casey had no guaranteed money left on his contract, which was set to run through the 2022
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12:51 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — University of Texas System regents on Thursday approved a six-year, $34.2 million guaranteed contract for new Longhorns football coach Steve Sarkisian. The regents also approved more than $21 million in guaranteed contracts for Sarkisian’s staff. Three of his top assistants got three-year guaranteed contracts worth more than
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1:50 PM ET Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson has not demanded a trade, his agent Mark Rodgers told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Thursday. According to Schefter, Wilson has told the Seahawks that he wants to play in Seattle but if a trade were considered, the only teams he would go to are the Dallas Cowboys,
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1:13 PM ET The deluge of bad news for the Pittsburgh Panthers has continued, as the program on Thursday announced that Au’Diese Toney, the No. 2 scorer in the program, will leave the team and enter the transfer portal based on a “mutual” decision. Toney, who missed Saturday’s 79-72 loss to Florida State due to
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1:19 PM ET COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina‘s men’s basketball program was placed on probation for two years by the NCAA on Thursday for former assistant coach Lamont Evans accepting $9,100 in bribes from a sports agent. The NCAA’s decision put an end to South Carolina’s role in the college basketball corruption case that began
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12:42 PM ET Cam Newton said Thursday that he respects the apology from the high school football player who trash-talked him at a 7-on-7 tournament and hopes their exchange that went viral can be a learning experience for many. The player, Jseth Owens of Perkiomen Valley High School in Pennsylvania, asked for forgiveness. Newton essentially
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11:17 AM ET A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a former female student’s report of sexual assault against three former Michigan State basketball players was just one event and not enough to establish that she had been subjected to “systemic” harassment by the university. In dismissing the lawsuit filed in April 2018 by Bailey Kowalski,
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11:39 AM ET When you think of teams with multiple All-Stars, you think of dominance — the Jazz, the Lakers, the Nets. The Celtics have two All-Stars in Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, but after Wednesday night’s blowout loss to the Hawks, Boston is in last place in the Atlantic Division. Team president Danny Ainge
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10:39 AM ET Michigan and Northwestern will begin playing this season for the George Jewett Trophy, a new football rivalry trophy that honors the first Black player in Big Ten history, who competed for both teams in the 1890s. The Jewett Trophy becomes the first rivalry trophy in the FBS named for a former Black
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10:53 AM ET Utah Jazz executive vice president of basketball operations Dennis Lindsey on Wednesday denied allegations of making bigoted comments during an exit interview for former player Elijah Millsap in 2015. While issuing a series of posts Wednesday on Twitter about how bigotry “is still very well present” and is a problem that needs
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