Month: April 2021

3:43 AM ET ESPN News Services Zack Greinke helped the Houston Astros hush an unwelcoming crowd in Oakland on Thursday night and said he hopes the team can silence some of the haters by continuing to win. Greinke pitched six shutout innings, Michael Brantley and Alex Bregman homered back-to-back in the eighth, and the Astros
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12:21 AM ET MMA fighter Khetag Pliev had to have a finger surgically reattached after it was severed during the second round of a fight Thursday night in Philadelphia. The fight, which was part of an event put on by Cage Fury Fighting Championship and aired on UFC Fight Pass, was stopped when the referee
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4:25 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Hubert Hurkacz of Poland earned his first semifinal berth in a top-level ATP event by rallying past No. 2-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 Thursday at the Miami Open. Hurkacz, seeded 26th, has won three in a row when facing a top-five opponent, but he beat Tsitsipas for
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11:28 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN SEATTLE — Defensive tackle Jarran Reed‘s refusal to move money around in his contract for salary-cap purposes led to his release last week by the Seattle Seahawks, a source confirmed ESPN. Reed has since signed a one-year deal with the Kansas City Chiefs. It includes $5 million guaranteed and up
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10:57 PM ET Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Astros shortstop Carlos Correa says he hasn’t seriously discussed a long-term deal with Houston and plans to seek a big payday in free agency next offseason. “We were not close at all. There were not really any negotiations,” Correa said Thursday before the Astros opened their season
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10:05 PM ET Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Michelle Wie West was back on a major championship leaderboard Thursday at the ANA Inspiration. So was Shanshan Feng in her first tournament in 16 months. Playing for the second straight week after a 21-month break, Wie West shot a 2-under 70, leaving her four strokes
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6:19 PM ET The Vancouver Canucks will not play for at least a week after three members of the team were placed in the NHL’s COVID protocols, the league announced Thursday. The NHL said in a statement that Canucks games have been postponed until April 8. Two players — Adam Gaudette and Travis Hamonic —
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9:51 PM ET ESPN News Services DURHAM, N.C. — Duke freshman guard DJ Steward is entering the NBA draft. The school announced Steward’s decision Thursday after he averaged 13 points and scored in double figures 17 times. In a statement, Steward said he plans to sign with an agent. Steward is the No. 63 ranked
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8:20 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — Ingrid Lindblad of Sweden had a 2-under 70 for one of only three rounds under par in the wind and chill Thursday, giving her a share of the lead with top-ranked Rose Zhang going into the final round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Zhang, the 17-year-old
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9:32 PM ET The NFL continued its push into the sports betting space, choosing UK-based Genius Sports as the exclusive distributor of NFL data to sportsbook. The deal is worth $120 million annually for six years, according to the Sports Business Journal. Genius Sports unseats Sportradar, who had been paying the NFL $20 million annually
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9:00 PM ET NEW YORK — Kevin Durant, as part of his first public comments since injuring his hamstring in February, on Thursday addressed a feud between himself and actor Michael Rapaport that had been made public this week. Rapaport posted private messages that he said Durant had sent him — which included threatening language
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