Month: April 2021

2:57 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Cincinnati Reds outfielder Nick Castellanos‘ appeal of a two-game suspension has been denied, sources told ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel and Jeff Passan. Castellanos will serve both games for what MLB called “his aggressive
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1:09 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Fordham forward Joel Soriano is transferring to St. John’s, strengthening the Red Storm’s inside game. The 6-foot-11, 250-pound Soriano spent two seasons with the Rams and has three years of NCAA eligibility remaining. Soriano started all 14 of Fordham’s games last season for a team that went
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1:23 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Baltimore Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta vehemently defended the team’s wide receivers during Monday’s pre-draft news conference. “I’m aware that there’s some fan discontent with our wide receivers and our drafting and all that,” DeCosta said. “We’ve got some really good young receivers. It’s insulting to these guys
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1:37 PM ET Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa starting guard CJ Fredrick has entered his name in the NCAA transfer portal, the school confirmed Monday. Fredrick started 52 games the last two seasons and is a 47% career 3-point shooter. Fredrick averaged 7.5 points per game last season and had 52 assists against
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12:50 PM ET Jeff Borzello Close ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Paul Biancardi Close Basketball Recruiting National Recruiting Director for ESPN.com 18 years of coaching experience at Division I level Former Horizon League coach of the year at Wright State Chet Holmgren, the No. 1-ranked
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12:41 PM ET The PGA Tour is strongly encouraging its players and caddies to get the COVID-19 vaccines, sending a memo on Monday that outlined how it will eventually stop on-site testing while also attempting to debunk some of the myths associated with the shots. In the memo obtained by ESPN, the Tour said while
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1:27 PM ET Indiana and Notre Dame have scheduled a home-and-home series in football for 2030 and 2031, marking the first time the in-state teams will meet since 1991. The Hoosiers and Fighting Irish will open the 2030 season at Notre Dame Stadium on Aug. 31 and then meet Sept. 27, 2031, in Bloomington. The
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12:17 PM ET HOUSTON — Attorney Rusty Hardin has filed an answer to the 22 lawsuits filed against Deshaun Watson that says the Houston Texans quarterback’s legal team has “already uncovered evidence that numerous allegations in this onslaught of cases are simply not true or accurate.” From March 16 to April 14, 23 lawsuits were
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12:43 PM ET The NBA league office is eliminating restrictions on international travel for fully vaccinated personnel, according to a memo to teams obtained by ESPN. NBA team personnel based in the United States had been barred from traveling internationally for scouting purposes for the entirety of the 2020-21 season, starting in October of 2020.
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11:52 AM ET Veteran quarterback Alex Smith, who made a remarkable comeback from an injury that nearly cost him his leg, announced Monday on Instagram that he is retiring from football. Smith, 36, was the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year in 2020 after helping lead the Washington Football Team to the NFC East title.
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News Brendan Taylor and Craig Ervine return, but Sikandar Raza misses out because of injury Sean Williams will continue to lead Zimbabwe’s T20I side in their upcoming three-match series at home in Harare against Pakistan in the continued absence of their regular white-ball captain Chamu Chibhabha, who has been sidelined with a thigh injury since
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10:02 AM ET A North Texas football signee was among three people shot and killed at an apartment complex in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, the Elgin (Texas) Independent School District confirmed in a statement. Willie Simmons III, a senior at Elgin High School, signed with the Mean Green in December and was set to join
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10:12 AM ET The Cincinnati Bengals will have a new look starting in 2021. On Monday, the team unveiled its new uniforms that will be worn starting with the upcoming season. The redesign is the team’s first since 2004. “Our fans have wanted new uniforms for many years, and today represents the start of an
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