Month: May 2021

9:00 AM ET The NBA has created a new award in honor of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the league’s all-time leading scorer and a noted civil rights activist, that will recognize a player who best embodies his strive for social justice and racial equality, the league announced Thursday. The winner of the inaugural Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice
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8:17 AM ET Andy Murray has entered the qualifying rounds for the French Open later this month but tournament director Guy Forget said the former world No. 1 “deserves” a wildcard spot for the claycourt Grand Slam. Three-times Grand Slam champion Murray has fallen to 123rd in the world rankings after long injury lay-offs because
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6:03 AM ET Associated Press PARMA, Italy — Serena Williams has accepted a wild-card invitation to play at the Emilia-Romagna Open in Parma starting this weekend. The move came immediately after Williams lost in straight sets to Nadia Podoroska at the Italian Open on Wednesday in her first match in nearly three months. “Maybe I
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Shafali Verma, 17, is set to make her WBBL debut later this year © Getty Images India batter Shafali Verma and allrounder Radha Yadav are set to make their Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) debuts later this year in Australia. ESPNcricinfo understands that Verma, 17, has already signed a contract with two-time champions Sydney Sixers
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5:04 PM ET The Seattle Mariners are calling up right-hander Logan Gilbert, their top pitching prospect, and he will start Thursday against the Cleveland Indians, manager Scott Servais said after Wednesday night’s 7-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Gilbert is ranked as the No. 43 prospect in baseball, according to ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel. Seattle
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8:38 PM ET Dallas Mavericks shooting guard JJ Redick will miss at least the remainder of the regular season because of right heel soreness that has bothered him for much of the season, coach Rick Carlisle said. Redick aggravated the heel while defending during Tuesday’s 133-104 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, putting the 36-year-old’s availability
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6:37 PM ET ESPN News Services LOS ANGELES — Two Los Angeles County firefighters could be fired and a third suspended after some first responders took and shared graphic photos from the site of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his teenage daughter and seven others, court documents say. The court documents were filed
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11:47 PM ET LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers finally unveiled the franchise’s 17th NBA championship banner at Staples Center on Wednesday night, and LeBron James used the occasion to set his sights on No. 18. “We said we would not unveil this banner until we had some of you guys in the seats,
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