Month: October 2021

9:41 PM ET HOUSTON — Shohei Ohtani was presented with the Commissioner’s Historic Achievement Award less than an hour before the start of the 2021 World Series on Tuesday night, a trophy with few recipients to commemorate a season without equal. Ohtani wore all black, sat next to Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred and
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10:13 PM ET HOUSTON — Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is deferring to the Native American community in and around Atlanta on whether it’s appropriate for the Braves to be encouraging the tomahawk chop gesture when the World Series is there for Games 3-5 this weekend. “It’s important to understand we have 30 markets
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9:51 PM ET HOUSTON — Charlie Morton‘s season ended in the third inning of the 2021 World Series. X-rays revealed that Morton, the Atlanta Braves’ veteran starting pitcher, suffered a fractured right fibula early in Game 1 on Tuesday night, seemingly after getting hit by a 102.4 mph comebacker off the bat of Houston Astros
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7:06 PM ET SAN ANTONIO — LeBron James will not play in the Los Angeles Lakers‘ game against the Spurs on Tuesday because of a sore right ankle, the team announced. Lakers coach Frank Vogel, when asked about James’ injury, said the team is taking “a marathon approach” with him. Malik Monk will start in
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10:06 PM ET United States women’s national team legend Carli Lloyd signed off on her international career in emphatic style on Tuesday night with a 6-0 win over South Korea. Lloyd, who memorably scored three goals in the opening 16 minutes of the U.S. victory in the 2015 Women’s World Cup final, is hanging up
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8:47 PM ET AAP with ESPN staff Victorian premier Dan Andrews insists he will not be applying for an exemption for unvaccinated tennis stars to enter the state, muddying the 2022 Australian Open waters. His comments come after Prime Minister Scott Morrison said unvaccinated players would be allowed into the country for the tournament, one
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8:09 PM ET The Los Angeles Chargers, insistent that they were confident in kicker Tristan Vizcaino despite his league-high five missed PATs this season, cut him on Tuesday and signed former Washington Football Team kicker Dustin Hopkins. It’s another chapter in the seemingly never-ending kicker saga the Chargers have been going through since Michael Badgley,
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8:14 PM ET NEW YORK — The playing status of Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, one of the hottest topics in the NFL ahead of next Tuesday’s trade deadline, does not sound as if it will be altered any time soon. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday at the league owners meetings that the NFL
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9:32 PM ET The 2021 World Series has arrived. The Atlanta Braves face the Houston Astros in Game 1 on Tuesday night. The Astros, with their sign-stealing scandal hanging over the past two years, are in their third Fall Classic in the past five seasons. The Braves return for the first time since 1999. Atlanta
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8:50 PM ET Roughly 100 protestors marched at the University of Michigan on Tuesday night calling for the resignations of the school’s president and its head athletic trainer. The group — which included former athletes, current students and others — gathered to voice their disapproval of how the university has responded to the hundreds of
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8:36 PM ET NEW YORK — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell doubled down Tuesday on the league’s decision not to make public the results of its investigation into the workplace culture at the Washington Football Team, saying the anonymity of the people who cooperated with the investigation was too high a priority to allow the league
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2:30 PM ET Chicago Blackhawks president of hockey operations Stan Bowman has resigned after investigators released their findings on how the team handled sexual assault allegations against former video coach Brad Aldrich during the 2010 Stanley Cup run. Senior director of hockey administration Al MacIsaac is also out, meaning there are no Blackhawks executives involved
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5:42 PM ET Former UFC fighter Mike Perry, known for action-packed UFC fights, issues outside the cage and having his girlfriend work his corner, has signed a deal with Bare Knuckle FC (BKFC), the promotion announced Tuesday. Perry’s manager Malki Kawa of First Round Management said Perry’s UFC contract expired with his April loss to
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2:45 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN SEATTLE — Pete Carroll isn’t making a change at quarterback after Geno Smith’s second uneven performance in as many starts as Russell Wilson’s injury replacement. Carroll said as much on his 710 ESPN Seattle radio show Tuesday morning when asked if Smith is still the Seahawks’ starter for this week’s
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2:02 PM ET New York Jets owner and chairman Woody Johnson, apparently not shaken by his team’s 1-5 start and historic loss to the New England Patriots on Sunday, expressed “unwavering, steadfast confidence” Tuesday in general manager Joe Douglas and coach Robert Saleh. “I’ve been around for, this is going on 22 years, with my
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