Month: March 2021

6:24 PM ET The most recent imaging on Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant‘s right hamstring strain showed “improvement,” but he is still a few weeks away from returning to game action, head coach Steve Nash said on Wednesday. Nash estimated Durant still needs more time to recover and then to steadily increase on-court activities. “We’re
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7:05 PM ET Associated Press A year after a bout with COVID-19 denied him a chance to be the Boston Red Sox‘s Opening Day starter, Eduardo Rodríguez is getting a do-over. Manager Alex Cora made the announcement Wednesday following Boston’s 9-1 spring training win over the Minnesota Twins. Rodríguez threw an efficient 55 pitches, striking
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12:43 PM ET HOUSTON — Two civil lawsuits have been filed against Deshaun Watson alleging inappropriate conduct during massages, on two separate occasions by two separate plaintiffs. The first lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday night and appeared on the Harris County district clerk’s website on Wednesday morning, alleges inappropriate conduct in a massage therapist’s home
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7:23 PM ET The Houston Rockets have agreed to a trade with the Milwaukee Bucks that will send P.J. Tucker, Rodions Kurucs and the Bucks’ 2022 first-round pick back to Milwaukee for D.J. Augustin, D.J. Wilson and a 2023 unprotected first-round pick, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Wednesday. Houston also gets the right to
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6:11 PM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Andrey Rublev and Denis Shapovalov eased into the quarterfinals of the Dubai Championships on Wednesday and qualifier Lloyd Harris continued his run of upsets. The second-seeded Rublev needed barely an hour to win 6-3, 6-1 against Taylor Fritz. He next faces a rematch against
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5:27 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The NHL has suspended Minnesota Wild defenseman Carson Soucy for one game for charging Arizona Coyotes forward Conor Garland. The league’s Department of Player Safety announced the suspension Wednesday. Soucy will forfeit $23,706.90 based on his average annual salary, with the money going to the Players’ Emergency
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3:59 PM ET The Las Vegas Raiders traded center Rodney Hudson and a 2021 seventh-round pick to the Arizona Cardinals for a 2021 third-round pick on Wednesday. The trade is pending Hudson passing a physical, the Cardinals announced. The Raiders are also shopping starting guard Gabe Jackson, sources tell ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Hudson is the
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5:36 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina basketball hall of famer Art Whisnant has died, the school announced Wednesday. No cause of death was given. He was 81 years old. Whisnant played for the Gamecocks from 1959 to ’62 and was a three-time all-Atlantic Coast Conference selection during that time. He finished
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5:10 PM ET Oklahoma guard De’Vion Harmon will miss the Sooners’ first two games of the NCAA tournament after testing positive for COVID-19. No other players are in contact tracing, coach Lon Kruger said on Wednesday. Harmon, a 6-foot-2 sophomore, started 23 of 25 games for Oklahoma this season. He’s the team’s second-leading scorer, averaging
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4:21 PM ET Atlanta Falcons kicker Younghoe Koo, who was born in South Korea but grew up in the United States, said Wednesday he is “deeply saddened” by the Atlanta-area shootings on Tuesday that left eight people dead, most of them women of Asian descent, while also calling attention to the rise in hate crimes
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3:42 PM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University The Tennessee Titans have agreed to terms to re-sign with linebacker Jayon Brown, a team source confirmed to ESPN. According to NFL Network, which first reported the news, Brown is returning on
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4:03 PM ET Associated Press Isaiah Livers of Michigan, Geo Baker of Rutgers and Jordan Bohannon of Iowa were among the college basketball players pushing for NCAA reforms on social media Wednesday, the day before the tournament tips off. With the hashtag #NotNCAAProperty, players pushed for the association to permit college athletes to earn money
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3:05 PM ET Former NBA center Shawn Bradley suffered a traumatic spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed, according to a statement released on his behalf by the Dallas Mavericks. On Jan. 20, Bradley was struck from behind by an automobile while riding his bicycle a block from his home in St. George, Utah. He
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12:42 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots have agreed to a one-year deal with free-agent center Ted Karras that could be worth up to $4 million, a source confirmed, which could foreshadow that starting center David Andrews won’t be back with the team. The Patriots drafted Karras in the 2016 sixth round
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12:53 PM ET The Oklahoma City Thunder are finalizing a trade to send forward Trevor Ariza to the Miami Heat for forward Meyers Leonard and a 2027 second-round pick, sources tell ESPN. Once the transaction is completed via a trade call with the league office on Wednesday afternoon, there’s no expectation that Leonard would be
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