Month: August 2021

11:19 AM ET Texas A&M added its fourth ESPN Junior 300 commitment to its 2023 recruiting class Wednesday with Theodor Ohrstrom, the No. 2-ranked tight end in the class despite him never having played football in the United States. The 6-foot-6, 250-pound Ohrstrom, who is ranked No. 86 overall by ESPN, attends RIG Football Academy
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11:45 AM ET Oakland Athletics ace Chris Bassitt suffered a right cheek fracture that will require surgery when he was struck in the head by a line drive during Tuesday’s game, the team said in a release Wednesday. Along with a displaced tripod fracture in his right cheek, Bassitt received stitches for two facial lacerations.
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10:46 AM ET Longtime NBA journalist Jackie MacMullan will retire from ESPN on Aug. 31, ending a decade-long tenure with the company. MacMullan, who has been an NBA reporter for 40 years, joined ESPN in 2010 after a long career with The Boston Globe. She has appeared on every ESPN platform, as a senior writer
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10:20 AM ET Count Steve Cohen among the New York Mets faithful who are discouraged by the team’s current free fall. Cohen, the Mets’ first-year owner, called out the team’s “unproductive” offense in a tweet Wednesday morning, hours after New York fell further from postseason contention with a fifth consecutive loss. The Mets (59-60) have
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10:28 AM ET Chicago Bears rookie offensive tackle Teven Jenkins will undergo back surgery on Wednesday, head coach Matt Nagy announced. Nagy said he hopes Jenkins, whom the Bears traded up to draft 39th overall in the second round, will be able to return this season. “It’s a common procedure,” Nagy said. “It’s gonna be
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8:11 PM ET The FedExCup Playoffs begin this week with THE NORTHERN TRUST at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, NJ. Which players are the favorites this time around, who offers good odds and what props are worth considering? Sports betting deputy editor David Bearman and betting analysts Chris “The Bear” Fallica, Tyler Fulghum
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6:55 AM ET Every year, Little League World Series officials interview the players, asking biographical questions, including their favorite food, book, TV show, athlete and so on. Here’s what the kids offered in 2019, the last time the LLWS was held: Best names Harrison Ford (“It’s a little annoying being asked all the time about
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7:15 AM ET College football’s last two national title games were perfect encapsulations of the two types of stars we end up with: the ones we saw coming and the ones we didn’t. In 2019, Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence, college football’s star recruit and golden boy and the defending national champion, squared off against LSU’s late-rising
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Play 01:33 Lanning: India will be match-hardened after their games in UK Australia captain Meg Lanning is taking the likelihood of Covid-19 disruption to at least the first part of the season in her stride and believes the team will be ready to face India next month regardless of what their build-up eventually looks like.
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2021 BMX World Championships Venue: Papendal, Arnhem, Netherlands Date: Sunday, 22 August Coverage: Watch live coverage of the men and women’s final on Red Button, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website from 12:15 BST Olympic medallists Beth Shriever and Kye Whyte are among 11 Britons competing at the BMX World Championships on Sunday and
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1:15 PM BST South Africa coach Jacques Nienaber has rotated his team for their second Rugby Championship clash with Argentina in Nelson Mandela Bay on Saturday, reverting to something close to a full-strength side. The Springboks beat Argentina 32-12 in their competition opener at the same venue last weekend with a much-changed team. However, they
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3:00 AM ET Slipped quietly into the arguments promoting the formation of April’s doomed European Super League was a suggestion that the Premier League‘s “Big Six” were all on board. Manchester City, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur all signed up for the project that collapsed in a matter of days, as fans
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