Month: May 2021

1:03 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Toronto Raptors president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri said Wednesday that his decision on whether to re-sign with the franchise this offseason will be determined by conversations he is set to have with the team’s ownership in the coming weeks. “Everybody says, ‘Blank check, blank check,’ but I’m not as
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1:14 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — The Dallas Open will bring professional men’s tennis to the city next year as the first ATP Tour event there since the circuit started in 1990. The indoor hard-court tournament will be played at SMU from Feb. 6-13, the tour announced Wednesday. It is an ATP 250 event
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1:10 PM ET Associated Press A new basketball league created for standout high school players is building a state-of-the-art facility in Atlanta. Also under construction: the high-level hoopsters set to join the league, which offers another possible avenue to the NBA. Overtime Elite announced Wednesday that it is constructing a 103,000-square-foot complex where prep players
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1:30 PM ET Duke is promoting Nina King to be its next athletic director, the school announced Wednesday. King, who joined Duke’s athletic department in September 2008 and serves as senior deputy director of athletics, will replace Kevin White, who is retiring Sept. 1 after 13 years at the school. She will become the first
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12:42 PM BST Murrayfield will allow in 16,500 spectators when the British & Irish Lions face Japan on June 26 ahead of their tour to South Africa this year, the Lions said on Wednesday. The move to let fans attend amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was made after consultations with the Scottish government. 1 Related
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12:01 PM ET Marshall All-American offensive lineman Cain Madden announced on Wednesday that he’s entering the college football transfer portal. A former walk-on, Cain started nine games last season and was named second-team All-American by The Associated Press. A so-called “super senior,” Cain will make use of the extra year of eligibility granted by the
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8:03 AM ET Tatiana Suarez, one of the best women’s MMA fighters in the world, is finally close to returning to the Octagon. Suarez told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani in a video interview published Wednesday that she has been medically cleared by doctors and is targeting a return to the UFC in September, or perhaps even
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10:47 AM ET The head of UK Anti-Doping, Nicole Sapstead, is leaving to take up a new role with the International Tennis Integrity Agency after 12 years with the organisation, UKAD said on Wednesday. Sapstead, who has been chief executive of UKAD for six years, will become the ITIA’s Senior Director for Anti-Doping. 1 Related
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