Month: August 2021

1:36 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent MANCHESTER, England — Jack Grealish celebrated his first Manchester City goal by putting his fingers in his ears, but you can already tell he’s listening to Pep Guardiola. It’s probably not the way Grealish dreamt it — the ball bouncing off his knee and over the line to help City
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2:32 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Floyd Reese, the general manager who assembled the roster for the Tennessee Titans‘ lone Super Bowl appearance, died Saturday. He was 73. His family told the team of his death. Reese had cancer and was with his family when he died, according to a social media post
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1:49 PM ET Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour on Saturday said “the Big Ten feels like it’s in a really good place” as the conference explores an alliance with the ACC and Pac-12, but that it continues to pay attention to what brings value beyond money. “I do think that there are conferences out
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11:35 AM ET Ohio State redshirt freshman C.J. Stroud has been named the starting quarterback for the Buckeyes’ season opener against Minnesota, coach Ryan Day told reporters Saturday. Stroud had been considered the leader for the starting job over redshirt freshman Jack Miller and true freshman Kyle McCord, while heralded prospect Quinn Ewers joined the
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6:00 AM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans‘ road to success starts with the relationship between quarterback Ryan Tannehill and new offensive coordinator Todd Downing. Downing inherits an offense that scored 30.7 points per
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5:47 PM ET JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Jon Rahm has competed in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs enough times to know how the system works. And he doesn’t like it. “I don’t think it’s fair,” Rahm said Friday after a 4-under-par 67 gave him a 1-shot lead through 36 holes at The Northern Trust,
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1:21 AM ET Associated Press MADISON, Ill. — Defending series champion Sheldon Creed won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series playoff opener Friday night with a dominating run at Gateway. In a race interrupted by a power outage that knocked out the lights for about an hour early in the second stage, Creed swept the
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10:27 PM ET Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. — Oregon became the first Power 5 school to announce it will require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test for people over the age of 12 to attend its football games. In its announcement Friday, the school said the decision was made with public health authorities
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7:32 PM ET Saul Soliz, a mixed martial arts pioneer who trained some of the biggest names in the history of MMA and helped get the sport off the ground in Texas, died Tuesday morning due to complications from COVID-19, according to his wife, Toi. He was 55. Soliz, whom many have dubbed “The Godfather
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10:32 PM ET CM Punk is back in professional wrestling. But not with WWE. After seven years away from the ring, Punk returned Friday night with All Elite Wrestling (AEW), appearing on its television show “Rampage” in his hometown of Chicago. The promotion announced Punk, one of the most popular stars in pro wrestling through
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