Month: March 2021

11:32 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Jalen Suggs hit two late 3-pointers and scored 23 points, helping top-ranked Gonzaga survive its biggest test of an undefeated season to beat Brigham Young 88-78 in the West Coast Conference men’s basketball tournament title game on Tuesday night. The Bulldogs (26-0) had been unstoppable all season,
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11:00 AM ET Legendary Brazilian heavyweight Fabricio Werdum will make his PFL debut against Renan Ferreira, PFL president Ray Sefo told ESPN. A former UFC champion, Werdum (24-9-1) will headline a PFL event May 6 in Atlantic City. The card will also feature 2019 PFL champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Kayla Harrison against Mariana
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1:19 PM ET CHICAGO — Former Chicago Bears offensive lineman Kyle Long plans to unretire and play in the NFL in 2021, ESPN confirmed Tuesday. Long announced in January 2020 that he would retire after seven NFL seasons, all in Chicago. Drafted at No. 20 by the Bears in 2013, Long missed just one game
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10:32 PM ET UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling says health is his primary focus following a championship win over Petr Yan last weekend in Las Vegas — but an immediate rematch against Yan is also on the horizon. “I was doped up on morphine in the hospital, and texted [UFC president Dana White] and said,
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10:17 PM ET Associated Press HARRISONBURG, Va. — Mate Okros scored 14 points with four 3-pointers and sixth-seeded Drexel is headed to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 25 years after defeating eighth-seeded Elon 63-56 in the championship game of the Colonial Athletic Association tournament on Tuesday night. The Dragons, whose last NCAA
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9:09 PM ET The NHL and the NHL Players Association are not currently tracking which players, or how many, have received COVID-19 vaccinations. “We have not sought player or club reporting to this point,” said NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told ESPN on Tuesday. Don Fehr, executive director of the NHLPA, said there is no
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9:35 PM ET Associated Press Stephen Strasburg pronounced his fastball command better than it was before his carpal tunnel surgery and said his first game action in nearly seven full months essentially was the same as any other Grapefruit League debut after throwing 1 2/3 innings Tuesday night against the Houston Astros. “It didn’t really
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11:25 PM 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 Championship Week is by definition filled with bubble drama. What has changed in 2021 are the names at the center of that drama: Louisville, Maryland, Drake,
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7:24 PM ET Kansas athletic director Jeff Long said he and the university were unaware of any wrongdoing in Miles’ past before hiring him as head coach of the football team in 2018. Miles was placed on administrative leave on Saturday amid accusations of inappropriate behavior toward female students during his head-coaching tenure at LSU.
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3:39 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Call it the Bryson Rule. The PGA Tour announced Tuesday that “in the interest of safety, volunteers and other personnel,” it would be instituting internal out of bounds on the 18th hole of the TPC Sawgrass for this week’s Players Championship. Bryson DeChambeau was not cited, but
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5:42 PM ET Ten-man Porto squeezed past Juventus to reach the Champions League quarterfinals despite a 3-2 defeat after extra time at the Allianz Arena saw them triumph on away goals with a 4-4 aggregate scoreline. In a dramatic tie, Sergio Oliveira scored the crucial goal with a free-kick in the 117th-minute, which went through
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6:43 PM ET Associated Press Iowa athletic director Gary Barta apologized to the family of Hawkeyes basketball great Roy Marble on Tuesday for any hard feelings they have over the retirement of star player Luka Garza‘s number. Garza last month broke the 32-year-old career scoring record held by Marble, is the two-time Big Ten player
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2:47 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jaguars coach Urban Meyer said Tuesday that concerns about the disruption Chris Doyle’s hiring would cause his team led to Doyle’s departure, which Meyer described as being in the “best interest of all.” Meyer, speaking publicly for the first time since naming Doyle as Jacksonville’s director of sports performance
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3:32 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings released kicker Dan Bailey on Tuesday, the team announced. Bailey, 33, was at risk of becoming a salary-cap casualty this offseason after the Vikings signed kicker Greg Joseph off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers practice squad in February. With $1.8 of Bailey’s $2.7 million 2021 base salary set
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4:48 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Coach Bruce Arians made good on his word at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers‘ Super Bowl boat parade, when he told inside linebacker Lavonte David, “Your ass ain’t going nowhere.” The Bucs on Tuesday agreed to terms with David on a two-year deal worth $25 million, with $20 million guaranteed,
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6:04 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The Philadelphia 76ers said Tuesday that All-Stars Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons would both miss Thursday’s game against the Chicago Bulls — and that Simmons will miss Friday’s game against the Washington Wizards — due to the same contact tracing that kept both of them from participating in Sunday’s All-Star
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