Month: September 2021

11:56 AM ET Manchester City were held to a frustrating 0-0 draw by Southampton in the Premier League on Saturday, despite being handed a reprieve by the VAR that led to Kyle Walker‘s red card being overturned. After an uneventful first half where City were well below par, Southampton thought they had been handed a
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6:27 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Minor league players in the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies farm systems are wearing teal wristbands Saturday to protest pay that they say is insufficient. At least 10 players from the Brooklyn Cyclones and Jersey Shore BlueClaws wore the wristbands — which feature the hashtag #FairBall
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6:09 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — New York Yankees left fielder Joey Gallo left Saturday’s game against the Cleveland Indians because of neck tightness. Gallo was pulled after the Yankees batted in the third inning. He was replaced by Tyler Wade. In his only at-bat, he fouled out to third base in the
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5:59 PM ET PITTSBURGH — The Las Vegas Raiders placed backup quarterback Marcus Mariota on Injured Reserve Saturday, five days after he aggravated a quadriceps injury on a 31-yard run in the Raiders’ 33-27 overtime win against the Baltimore Ravens. Mariota, 27, broke off a 31-yard run up the middle on the Raiders’ first series
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4:09 PM ET Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Cody Bellinger is sitting out Saturday’s game but will try to continue to play after suffering a non-displaced rib fracture earlier this week, manager Dave Roberts said. “We just got the imaging this morning,” Roberts told reporters Saturday. “It was that play Monday. He just said it was
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5:27 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers will be without defensive line coach Jerry Montgomery for Monday night’s game against the Detroit Lions because of COVID-19 protocols. Montgomery has not been with the team for any of their practices this week. Defensive quality control coach Wendel Davis, inside linebackers coach Kirk
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4:51 PM ET ESPN News Services MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Jarret Doege threw two touchdown passes, Leddie Brown rushed for 106 yards and a score and West Virginia survived No. 15 Virginia Tech’s furious rally from a 20-point deficit to outlast the Hokies 27-21 on Saturday. The Mountaineers (2-1) built a 27-7-point lead midway through the
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5:17 PM ET ESPN News Services Chicago White Sox pitcher Mike Wright has been suspended three games and manager Tony La Russa for one stemming from an incident in which both were ejected after Angels slugger Shohei Ohtani was hit by a pitch on Thursday. La Russa will serve his suspension during Saturday’s game vs.
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5:23 PM ET On a day when No. 3 Oklahoma scored its fewest points ever under Lincoln Riley in a 23-16 win over Nebraska, the Sooners coach almost made history for another reason. After Oklahoma cornerback D.J. Graham made an highlight-reel one-handed interception on fourth down on his own 3-yard line with 8:16 remaining in
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5:08 PM ET Cleveland Browns safety Ronnie Harrison Jr. was fined $12,128 by the NFL for shoving Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach Greg Lewis during their game last Sunday. Lewis, however, was not fined for shoving Harrison first. The incident occurred in the first quarter after Harrison tackled running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire along the
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4:26 PM ET Jelena Ostapenko defeated the seventh-seed Liudmila Samsonova in straight sets by 6-1, 7-6(4) in one hours and 28 minutes to reach the Luxembourg Open final on Saturday. The Latvian won the tournament in 2019 and the result sees her progress into her second final of the year after winning the Eastbourne title
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4:38 PM ET Veteran MMA fighter Anthony Johnson has withdrawn from a Bellator MMA title fight against Vadim Nemkov on Oct. 16 due to illness, which appears to be a potentially serious ailment. Johnson, 37, was scheduled to challenge Nemkov for the light heavyweight championship, as part of Bellator’s ongoing tournament. He announced via social
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3:46 PM ET Atlanta Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna has had his administrative leave extended through Friday, a league source confirmed to ESPN. Ozuna is currently participating in a diversion program that he entered in a pretrial resolution on Sept. 9, more than three months after being arrested on assault charges after allegedly assaulting his wife.
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3:52 PM ET The list of assistant coaches not with the New Orleans Saints for their game Sunday vs. the Carolina Panthers grew on Saturday. The Saints announced that defensive line coach Ryan Nielsen and pass rush specialist Brian Young will not be with the team for its second game of the season due to
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1:09 PM ET Associated Press CROMVOIRT, Netherlands — Kristoffer Broberg of Sweden smashed the course record he set a day earlier with an 11-under 61 on Saturday to open an eight-shot lead after three rounds of the Dutch Open. The 772nd-ranked Broberg opened with four birdies and an eagle in his first six holes in
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2:36 PM ET Oklahoma will commemorate all three of the legendary Selmon brothers with a statue to be unveiled next season. On Friday night, at a dinner celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1971 Oklahoma-Nebraska Game of the Century with players from both of those teams in attendance, Oklahoma announced it would be honor Lucious,
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