Month: August 2021

6:00 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Boston reliever Hirokazu Sawamura has become the latest Red Sox player to test positive for COVID-19. Red Sox manager Alex Cora made the announcement before Tuesday night’s game at Tampa Bay. The Boston bullpen has been hit hard by the outbreak that started last week. Left-hander
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6:13 PM ET During a team meeting Tuesday, Dolphins coach Brian Flores addressed recent reports tying Miami to a potential trade for Deshaun Watson, telling his players and staff that Tua Tagovailoa is “our quarterback” in a brief but poignant message, sources told ESPN. Flores was not overly expansive in his comments, and he didn’t
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3:40 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea has named Ken Seals the Commodores’ starting quarterback for the opener against East Tennessee State on Saturday night. Lea said Tuesday that Seals will be the starter. Mike Wright is the backup quarterback, but Lea said Wright also will play as one of
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5:16 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin has dismissed freshman running back Loyal Crawford from the team. Badgers coach Paul Chryst announced the dismissal Tuesday and said freshman running back Antwan Roberts had been suspended. School officials didn’t specify the reasons for the disciplinary measures and said they would have no additional comment
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4:02 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS — The New York Jets have traded veteran tight end Chris Herndon to the Minnesota Vikings. The exact trade compensation is not yet known. NFL Network was first to report the trade. Minnesota executed the trade one day after coach Mike Zimmer announced that Irv Smith Jr. will undergo surgery this
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4:32 PM ET Associated Press Ash Barty, the No. 1 seed on the women’s side of the U.S. Open, held off 2010 runner-up Vera Zvonareva 6-1, 7-6 (7). Barty won Wimbledon for her second major title and now is back in New York after remaining in Australia last year when the event was played with
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4:52 PM ET The Chicago White Sox put All-Star right-hander Lance Lynn on the 10-day injured list with right knee inflammation, it was announced Tuesday. The 34-year-old Lynn is 10-4 with a 2.59 ERA and 152 strikeouts in his first season with the White Sox. He signed a two-year, $38 million extension with the team
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4:38 PM ET Nebraska’s proud sellout streak will survive another week. The Cornhuskers announced on Tuesday that the Fordham game on Saturday will be its 376th consecutive sellout, continuing a streak that dates to the Bob Devaney era in 1962. The remaining tickets that were purchased will go to a new program Nebraska started called
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PA Media The Tour de Yorkshire cycle race has been cancelled for a third year in a row, its organisers have announced. The 2020 and 2021 legs of the four-day event, which draws thousands of visitors to the county, were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Welcome to Yorkshire said staging the race in 2022
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3:30 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick always said he would be looking for consistency and production over time when it came to evaluating the quarterback competition between Cam Newton and Mac Jones. Newton was released Monday and Jones, drafted No. 15 overall in the first round this year, was
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1:00 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Editor’s note: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault allegations. In the two months since Trevor Bauer last appeared in a game for the Los Angeles Dodgers, his future — legally
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2:02 PM ET Francisco Lindor and Javier Baez apologized to New York Mets fans on Tuesday, saying they were wrong for giving thumbs-down gestures after getting booed in recent games. “It does not look good on our part,” Lindor said. It reached a boiling point within the organization when Baez made the gesture to the
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2:22 PM ET Ohio State quarterback Quinn Ewers has signed a name, image and likeness deal with GT Sports Marketing for $1.4 million, a source told ESPN on Tuesday. The contract with GT Sports Marketing is for three years and is in exchange for autographs. The deal, according to a source, was negotiated by Ewers’
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1:47 PM ET Jameis Winston will definitely be the New Orleans Saints‘ Week 1 starter, Sean Payton confirmed Tuesday. Whether that game will be played in New Orleans or Arlington, Texas, remains to be determined. Payton said the Saints are leaning toward staying in the Dallas area for the next several weeks until they are
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