Month: September 2021

7:39 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Albert Pujols went on the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ COVID-19 injured list Tuesday, when Cody Bellinger was activated from the IL after missing eight games with a broken left rib. Pujols received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and “just didn’t feel good,” manager Dave Roberts said.
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6:20 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — A grand jury in Fayette County, Kentucky, has declined to indict six University of Kentucky football players on first-degree burglary charges. The charges were brought last month following a police investigation of an incident last March at a private party. Lexington Police arrested Reuben Adams, Robert McClain,
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8:17 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN George Kambosos’ legal counsel sent a letter to the IBF on Tuesday requesting that the organization find Triller in default of its obligation to honor signed contracts to deliver the lightweight title fight with Teofimo Lopez on Oct. 4 at New York’s Hulu Theater at MSG. In the letter, a
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7:43 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — Los Angeles Angels manager Joe Maddon said Tuesday that Shohei Ohtani‘s comments this past weekend about wanting to win don’t mean the two-way star wants to leave the organization when he becomes a free agent after the 2023 season. Ohtani, an American League MVP front-runner with 45
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7:58 PM ET ROSEMONT, Ill. — Following a second College Football Playoff meeting in as many weeks, executive director Bill Hancock told reporters on Tuesday the decision-makers tasked with determining the future format of the sport’s postseason “have the luxury of time” to figure it out. The playoff is in the midst of its eighth
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5:14 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau finished tied for second place in his group after the first day of the Professional Long Drivers Association World Championships in Mesquite, Nevada, averaging 406.2 yards on his five longest tee shots. DeChambeau hit drives of 412, 408, 407, 403 and 401 yards on Tuesday to advance to the next
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7:17 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors swingman Klay Thompson is starting to look more like his old basketball self amid his rehabilitation from a torn right Achilles injury. Participating in his first official team practice since suffering the injury in an offseason workout Nov. 18, 2020, Thompson knocked down shots from all
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6:42 PM ET Associated Press INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — US Open champion Emma Raducanu has received a wild card into the BNP Paribas Open next month. The combined men’s and women’s tournament will be played Oct. 4-17 in the Southern California desert, a move from its usual March date because of the coronavirus pandemic. Raducanu,
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5:49 PM ET Louisiana-Monroe quarterback Rhett Rodriguez, the son of longtime football coach Rich Rodriguez, is home after being in intensive care following a lung injury suffered during Saturday’s game against Troy, his father told ESPN on Tuesday. Rhett Rodriguez was in the intensive care unit at Francis Medical Center with a collapsed lung and
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6:45 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — When Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady takes the field Sunday at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, to face his former team, the New England Patriots, he’ll need just 68 yards to break Drew Brees’ NFL career passing yardage record of 80,358 yards. “I’m a firm believer that records
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2:34 PM ET UFC fighter Jon Jones allegedly pulled a woman’s hair and head-butted a police car hours after one of his fights was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame last week. An arrest report released Tuesday by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department lays out the sequence of events that led to Jones
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2:34 PM ET UFC fighter Jon Jones allegedly pulled a woman’s hair and head-butted a police car hours after one of his fights was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame last week. An arrest report released Tuesday by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department lays out the sequence of events that led to Jones
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5:34 PM ET TCU coach Gary Patterson criticized SMU for its role in the scuffle that followed Saturday’s game in Fort Worth, and for using one of Patterson’s country songs to mock his team. Patterson on Tuesday said SMU orchestrated an attempt to plant its flag at midfield at Amon G. Carter Stadium if the
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1:06 PM ET Philadelphia Eagles left guard Isaac Seumalo suffered a Lisfranc injury against the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night that requires season-ending surgery, the team announced Tuesday. It’s another blow to an offensive line that was already without right guard Brandon Brooks (pectoral) and left tackle Jordan Mailata (medial collateral ligament sprain) in Monday’s
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