Month: March 2021

8:21 PM ET Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Rheal Cormier, the durable left-hander who spent 16 seasons in the majors and remarkably pitched in the Olympics before and after his time in the big leagues, died Monday. He was 53. The Philadelphia Phillies said Cormier died of cancer at his home in New Brunswick, Canada. Cormier
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7:10 PM ET Villanova guard Justin Moore is doubtful for the Big East men’s basketball tournament after suffering a severe ankle sprain over the weekend, coach Jay Wright announced on Twitter on Monday. Moore went down in the first half of Saturday’s loss to Providence and needed to be helped off the court. He eventually
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7:09 PM ET GLENDALE, Ariz. — David Price watched the 2020 season as a spectator and was often struck by the talent throughout the Los Angeles Dodgers’ starting rotation. When the offseason progressed and word began to spread that his team might ultimately add Trevor Bauer, the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, Price
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6:55 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — Finally, the Dallas Cowboys and Dak Prescott have agreed to a contract, the team announced Monday. The process covered three offseasons, multiple mega-million offers and hours of negotiations. The Cowboys placed the franchise tag on Prescott last season and Monday’s deal comes a day before the deadline for teams
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4:42 PM ET Creighton men’s basketball coach Greg McDermott has been reinstated for all team activities following a one-game suspension for racially insensitive comments he made to his players in late February, the school announced Monday. The decision allows McDermott to coach the Bluejays in this week’s Big East tournament. McDermott apologized last Tuesday for
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2:52 PM ET UMBC guard Darnell Rogers, believed to be the shortest scholarship player in Division I basketball history, has entered the transfer portal, he told ESPN on Monday. Rogers, who is 5-foot-2, started all 20 games for UMBC this past season. He played seven games last season before suffering a hamstring injury and then
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2:20 PM ET Associated Press Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo declined to specify Monday why Jeremy Jeffress was released from a minor league contract by the team, saying only that he considered it an “employment issue” and acknowledging it was not related to the reliever’s baseball performance. “We’re just going to stand by the
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1:01 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN SEATTLE — The Seattle Seahawks are releasing veteran defensive end Carlos Dunlap, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The move clears $14.1 million in badly needed cap space but leaves the Seahawks without their most accomplished edge rusher and a two-time Pro Bowl selection. The team is expected to attempt
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2:18 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said it could be “a matter of years” before its schools recover from the financial blow they took when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down sports and then limited how games have returned. The loss of revenue from the canceled Big 12
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1:01 PM ET Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, the son of a Black father and a Japanese mother, is speaking out about the rise of violence against Asian Americans in the United States. “Over the past year, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of hate crimes against Asian Americans and the
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1:11 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie has instructed the team to prioritize making Jalen Hurts successful in 2021 as opposed to creating a true quarterback competition, sources tell ESPN’s Chris Mortensen. Hurts is currently the only quarterback under contract in Philadelphia. More quarterbacks will be added, but Lurie wants his staff to
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