Month: February 2021

11:31 AM ET Michigan quarterback Joe Milton entered his name in the transfer portal on Thursday. The third-year quarterback will have three years of eligibility remaining, as the NCAA has granted an extra year of eligibility and Milton has not used his redshirt season yet. Milton was an ESPN 300 prospect in the 2018 class,
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11:23 AM ET Closer Trevor Rosenthal and the Oakland Athletics are in agreement on a one-year, $11 million contract, sources familiar with the deal confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. Rosenthal had been seeking a four-year contract, but the free agent for relief pitchers had cratered. He did have multiyear options, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan,
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8:57 AM ET DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Roush Fenway Racing set a goal to reduce its carbon footprint even as it raced a pair of gas-guzzling cars all across the country. The initiative started with small environmentally conscious measures that eventually grew into a company-wide initiative. With support from partner Castrol, RFR became the first
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10:38 AM ET Boston College guard Wynston Tabbs entered the transfer portal Thursday morning, sources told ESPN. Tabbs was suspended on Monday for the remainder of the season due to a violation of the university’s COVID-19 protocols. Boston College had fired head coach Jim Christian earlier that day. Tabbs, classified as a redshirt sophomore after
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9:49 AM GMT A lobby group composed of players, officials, referees, coaches, medical experts and teachers has been formed to campaign for improved safety in the sport they describe as “broken.” Spearheading Progressive Rugby are former internationals, including Canada’s Jamie Cudmore, who is involved in a long-running legal dispute with his former club Clermont Auvergne,
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9:43 AM ET Free-agent cornerback Pierre Desir donated 10,000 meals to the Houston Food Bank this week to help an area devastated by blast of wintry weather. Desir, a two-time nominee for the Walter Payton Man of the Year award, doesn’t have any connection to Houston. He just felt “it was the right thing to
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9:32 AM ET Associated Press TORONTO — – The Toronto Blue Jays will play their first two homestands of the season at their spring training facility in Dunedin, Florida, because of Canadian government restrictions during the pandemic. The team said Thursday it has been planning different scenarios for home games and had hoped to see
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9:53 AM ET ESPN News Services The NFL has informed teams that the salary cap for the 2021 season will be no less than $180 million, a slight increase from last year’s previous agreement between the league and the NFL Players Association. The NFL had a $198.2 million salary cap in 2020, but the league
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12:30 AM ET John GasawayESPN Insider Close ESPN Insider college basketball contributor First began covering college hoops in 2004 Has written for Basketball Prospectus and the Wall Street Journal One of the most striking features of the men’s basketball bubble this year is the unmistakable prevalence of mid-majors. Usually at this time of year, we
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