Month: February 2021

6:56 PM ET Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Isaiah Thomas scored 19 points in his first competitive game in more than a year, helping the U.S. to a 93-77 victory over the Bahamas on Friday in a FIBA AmeriCup qualifying game. The 32-year-old Thomas is a two-time NBA All-Star who scored 28.9 points
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5:57 PM GMT France scrum-half and star player Antoine Dupont is set to miss his side’s Six Nations game against Scotland after testing positive for COVID-19 on Friday. All the players in the 31-man squad had been tested and so far 11 had been negative, with Dupont the only one to return a positive test,
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5:56 PM GMT Wales have called up prop WillGriff John to their Six Nations squad to replace the injured Dillon Lewis, the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) announced on Friday. Lewis will miss the rest of the Six Nations campaign after sustaining a neck injury. – Play ESPN’s Rugby Pick’em for FREE Sale Sharks’ John, 28,
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3:35 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Thirteen of 4,336 tests for COVID-19 were positive during intake for Major League Baseball’s spring training, a rate of 0.3% The commissioner’s office said Friday that nine positive samples involved players and four involved staff members. Positive tests included 11 of the 30 teams. After the intake
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5:00 PM ET Dr. Anthony Fauci is cautiously optimistic about the prospect of fans returning to the stands for the 2021 MLB season, telling ESPN’s Buster Olney there’s a “pretty good chance” of it happening if the rate of COVID-19 infections continue to drop. “We could have a pretty good chance of having a baseball
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4:39 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — The game between the Houston Rockets and the Indiana Pacers on Saturday night has been postponed because of continued utility shortages in the area from this week’s winter storm. It’s the second straight home postponement for the Rockets. Friday’s game against Dallas was called off on Thursday. The
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4:31 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers released a pair of veteran starters, offensive tackle Rick Wagner and linebacker Christian Kirksey, on Friday as they continued to shed salary-cap burdens. Even if the Packers weren’t over the projected cap, both players would have been strong candidates for release considering their uneven
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4:28 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — Receiver DeSean Jackson took to social media Friday to signal he’s been released by the Philadelphia Eagles. “Looking forward to my next chapter,” Jackson posted on Instagram Story. “Philadelphia it’s always Love. Appreciate Everything.” The Eagles acquired the 34-year-old Jackson from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2019, reuniting the deep-threat
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3:52 PM ET Chicago Cubs outfielder Ian Happ won his arbitration case with the club and will earn $4.1 million in 2021, a source familiar with the result confirmed to ESPN on Friday. The team had presented a $3.25 million salary to an arbitrator but the case was decided in favor of the four-year veteran
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3:08 PM ET Associated Press The last spring training of Max Scherzer‘s $210 million, seven-year contract with the Washington Nationals is not exactly beginning the way he — or the team — would prefer. The three-time Cy Young Award winner sprained his left ankle while running to get in shape for the season and so
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3:43 PM ET Associated Press Justin Turner‘s extended flirtation with free agency ended where it began – with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Along the way, the third baseman had doubts about whether he would return to his hometown team and wondered if his mask-less appearance on the field to celebrate the Dodgers’ World Series championship
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7:43 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Jennifer Brady prepared for the Australian Open in a 355-square-foot hotel room. Following a positive test for coronavirus from a passenger on her charter flight upon arriving in Melbourne, Brady was forbidden from leaving the room and was required to self-isolate for 14 days. No access to tennis courts. No
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2:48 PM ET A UFC fighter missed weight Friday by a record amount. Rafael Alves weighed in at 157.5 pounds for a scheduled featherweight bout against Patrick Sabatini. The limit for a non-title featherweight fight in MMA is 146 pounds, so Alves weighed 11.5 pounds over the contracted mark. It was the biggest weight miss
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3:33 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — – Minnesota guard Gabe Kalscheur will miss three to four weeks with a broken finger on his shooting hand, taking a co-captain and the team’s best defender out of the lineup for the stretch run. Coach Richard Pitino said Kalscheur was having surgery on Friday to repair the
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