Month: May 2021

12:20 PM ET Phoenix Suns coach Monty Williams has been voted as the National Basketball Coaches Association’s Coach of the Year, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. The league’s 30 head coaches vote on the award, which was named in honor of late NBCA executive director, Michael Goldberg. Williams resurrected the Suns’ floundering franchise, leading Phoenix
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11:32 AM ET Former champion Stan Wawrinka has pulled out of the French Open after failing to recover sufficiently from an operation he underwent on his left foot in March, his team said on Tuesday. The 36-year-old Swiss, who won the claycourt Grand Slam at Roland Garros in 2015, has not played on the Tour
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11:05 AM ET Arkansas football coach Sam Pittman and the school have agreed to restart his five-year, $15 million contract after COVID-19 impacted his first season at the helm. Athletic director Hunter Yurachek confirmed the new deal Monday night at a fan event in Harrison, Arkansas, which Pittman also attended. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,
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6:00 AM ET LAS VEGAS — “It was more difficult to get a ticket to the UNLV basketball game than it was to the Frank Sinatra show.” — coach Jerry Tarkanian, on HBO’s “Runnin’ Rebels of UNLV.” Yeah, this used to be the Rebels’ playground. Imagine what the late Tark the Shark would have said
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4:59 PM ET Tom Brady and Tiger Woods attended a Winnipeg Jets practice recently. Full disclosure: Neither GOAT was actually in attendance. But two actual goats named in the sports legends’ honor by their owner, Jets star Mark Scheifele, made their presence known. “They were buzzing around on the ice, so that was pretty cool.
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6:50 AM ET The incredible hockey continued on Day 3 of the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs, including the fourth overtime game of the postseason and the Cup favorite Colorado Avalanche showing how dominant they are. Tuesday brings the sequel to perhaps the best game of the playoffs so far, between the Florida Panthers and Tampa
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11:51 PM ET Gerrit Cole issued his first walk in more than a month Monday night, but he managed to set a big league record first. The New York Yankees‘ ace set the major league record (since 1900) for most consecutive strikeouts without a walk, breaking a mark Corbin Burnes of the Milwaukee Brewers had
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11:44 PM ET The Sacramento Kings will bring head coach Luke Walton back for a third season, sources confirmed to ESPN. The Kings extended their record-tying 15-year playoff drought after a second consecutive 31-41 season under Walton, who has two years left on his deal. Sacramento is in the midst of a multiyear rebuilding process
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