Month: July 2021

3:38 PM BST The British & Irish Lions touring party returned a negative set of COVID-19 tests on Friday allowing coach Warren Gatland to make 13 changes to the team facing the Cell C Sharks in Pretoria on Saturday after several days of disruption. Hooker Jamie George will captain the Lions’ third game on their
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4:59 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — St. John’s said Friday that Queens native Tareq Coburn will join the roster for the 2021-22 season. Coburn recently wrapped a three-year career at Hofstra in which he averaged nearly 11 points per game and helped the Pride to the 2020 Colonial Athletic Association championship. In 90
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3:52 PM ET ESPN News Services An MRI on the right knee of Phoenix Suns forward Torrey Craig revealed no structural damage, a source tells ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Craig’s status on a return is day-to-day. Craig was injured in the third quarter of Thursday night’s 118-108 Game 2 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks. He appeared
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1:34 PM ET Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. — The New Jersey Devils re-signed restricted free agent defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler to a two-year contract worth $2,250,000 on Friday. The contract has an average annual value of $1,125,000. The breakdown is as follows: $1,050,000 in the 2021-22 season and $1,200,000 in the 2022-23 season. The 24-year-old Siegenthaler
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1:36 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Matthew Dellavedova is taking his game back Down Under. The former Cleveland Cavaliers point guard signed a three-year contract Friday with Melbourne United, the defending champion in Australia’s National Basketball League. Dellavedova, known as “Delly” to teammates and fans, had two stints over six seasons with Cleveland, which
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11:10 AM ET Former Washington Wizards coach Scott Brooks is finalizing a deal with the Portland Trail Blazers to become Chauncey Billups’ top assistant coach, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Brooks spent the past five seasons as the Wizards’ coach, taking Washington to the playoffs three times and advancing to the Eastern Conference semifinals in
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10:26 PM ET Star winger Vladimir Tarasenko has requested a trade from the St. Louis Blues, a source confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. Tarasenko, 29, is in the seventh year of an eight-year, $60 million deal he signed in July 2015. He has a full no-trade clause to go along with 218 goals and 224
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9:24 AM ET Jalen Lewis, the No. 2 basketball prospect in ESPN’s Class of 2023, is signing with Overtime Elite. Lewis is the highest-ranked recruit to sign with the upstart league and is considered the top big man in the rising junior class. Lewis spurning recruiting interest from schools such as Kentucky, Duke, UCLA and
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