Month: September 2021

7:00 PM ET The Minnesota Wild and star forward Kirill Kaprizov ended their contract drama, as the restricted free agent signed a five-year, $45-million extension on Tuesday. The team announced the deal, with carries an average annual value of $9 million through the 2025-26 season, an extraordinary cap number for a player with just 55
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6:18 PM ET The expansion Seattle Kraken are shattering NHL jersey sales records. Sales, in fact, are the highest in league history for a newly released jersey in its first five days of availability, according to the NHL. Which means Seattle jerseys are doing brisker business than the expansion Vegas Golden Knights did when their
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6:19 PM ET BEVERLY HILLS — Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant started their scheduled fight more than a month early. The two boxers got into an ugly punching exchange during a staredown at a news conference Tuesday at the Beverly Hilton hotel. Alvarez and Plant are scheduled to fight for the unified super middleweight title
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4:38 PM ET SHEYBOYGAN, Wis. — There’s a plan in place in the event a player contracts COVID-19 and is unable to play in singles Sunday at the Ryder Cup — and it is being called the “COVID Envelope.” Following Ryder Cup rules similar to those in case of an injury, each captain before the
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5:06 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina sophomore Luke Doty will get his first start of the season at quarterback. Gamecocks coach Shane Beamer said Tuesday that Doty would get the call at home against Kentucky on Saturday night. Doty hurt his foot in practice last month and missed the first two
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4:14 PM BST Sara Cox is set to make history as the first woman to referee a Gallagher Premiership game, at Twickenham on Saturday. In 2016, Cox became the first referee who is female in the Rugby Football Union, and in 2020 became the first to work as an assistant referee in English rugby’s top
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2:26 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers released former third-round pick Jace Sternberger on Tuesday just as he completed his two-game NFL suspension for violating the league’s policy and program on substances of abuse. The tight end was the 75th overall pick in the 2019 draft but never found a consistent
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1:18 PM ET BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns are placing Pro Bowl wide receiver Jarvis Landry on injured reserve with an MCL sprain in his left knee, meaning he will miss a minimum of three games. Landry suffered the injury on the opening drive Sunday against the Houston Texans. After catching a 9-yard pass
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4:28 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN If his team had to practice today, Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks said some players would be unable to participate because of New York City’s vaccine mandate. “Regarding if they could play today, I can’t comment on who could play and so forth,” Marks said Tuesday in the team’s
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9:00 AM BST England boss Eddie Jones has named eight uncapped players in a 45-player squad for the next training camp, but there is no place in the mix for Saracens quartet Mako Vunipola, Billy Vunipola, Jamie George or the injured Elliot Daly. The large squad will meet for a two-day training camp next week
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3:18 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Rob Rivera, co-founder of the iconic Black Hole section of Raiders fans when the team called Oakland home, died this week from complications of COVID-19. Rivera, who was in his 50s, was inspired to create the section after seeing the Cleveland Browns’ Dawg Pound on television in 1994. “But
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2:40 PM ET Utah quarterback Charlie Brewer, who started the Utes’ first three games, has left the program. “Charlie has decided to move on and we wish him the best,” Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said in a statement. The decision was made public three days after he struggled and was pulled in a 33-31 triple-overtime
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1:38 PM ET DETROIT — The Chicago White Sox are hopeful lefty Carlos Rodon will be ready for the postseason despite experiencing soreness in his pitching arm during and after Monday’s outing against the Detroit Tigers. Rodon, 28, threw only 69 pitches in three innings before leaving the game, which the White Sox lost 4-3.
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2:08 PM ET Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud will practice this week and is on track to start Saturday against Akron despite a lingering injury to his throwing shoulder. Coach Ryan Day on Tuesday said Stroud will continue to be monitored and that it’s possible Ohio State’s other quarterbacks, Kyle McCord and Jack Miller III,
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2:30 PM ET Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Smoke and flames shot through the side of the Superdome’s roof on Tuesday as crews worked to clean and prepare the New Orleans sports and entertainment arena for painting. The New Orleans Fire Department confirmed that firefighters responded to flames on the building’s roof shortly before 1
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