Month: October 2021

12:20 PM ET Georgia got its third ESPN 300 commitment in eight days on Thursday when defensive tackle Bear Alexander announced his plans to play football for the Bulldogs. Alexander is the No. 61-ranked prospect overall and a 6-foot-4, 335-pound recruit from IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. He had originally committed to Georgia in February
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12:42 PM ET CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Browns have activated Jarvis Landry off injured reserve, clearing the way for the Pro Bowl wide receiver to return for Thursday night’s home game against the Denver Broncos. Landry missed the past three games with a medial collateral ligament sprain in his left knee. He suffered the injury
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11:33 AM ET The Philadelphia Eagles activated tight Dallas Goedert from the reserve/COVID-19 list on Thursday. The move allows the Eagles’ starting tight end to return to practice and bolsters the depth chart at the position after Philadelphia traded veteran Zach Ertz to the Arizona Cardinals last Friday. Goedert had been placed on the list
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10:54 AM ET ESPN News Services New Jersey Devils center Jack Hughes was placed on injured reserve Thursday with a dislocated left shoulder and is out indefinitely. The Devils said Hughes will not need surgery after an MRI confirmed no additional damage to his shoulder. The former No. 1 overall draft pick has begun physical
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11:03 AM ET Troubles keep piling up for the Winnipeg Jets. The team announced that forward Mark Scheifele has been placed on the COVID list. Earlier this week, Jets captain Blake Wheeler was declared out for at least four games when he tested positive for COVID-19. The team said that he was symptomatic. Winnipeg is
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9:00 AM ET The Jack Eichel saga in Buffalo has been quite the soap opera. But nothing in that saga was as odious and contentious as when the Sabres announced they were stripping their franchise player of his captaincy. “From our perspective and my perspective, I feel the captain is the heartbeat of your team,”
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10:46 AM ET ESPN News Services Boston Celtics games have been pulled off Chinese media after center Enes Kanter tweeted a two-minute video of himself expressing support for Tibet and wore shoes with the phrase “Free Tibet” on them during Wednesday night’s game against the New York Knicks. “I’m here to add my voice and
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10:12 AM ET Six schools — Florida Atlantic, Charlotte, North Texas, UTSA, Rice and UAB — have accepted invitations to join the American Athletic Conference, the league announced Thursday. No date has been set for the schools to join the conference, but a source told ESPN that the earliest they could join would be the
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6:00 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos‘ winningest quarterbacks have covered a spectrum of emotion, drive and “it” factor — each combination as unique as their own fingerprints. And Broncos players adopt the style of each quarterback. From John Elway’s white-hot intensity to Jake Plummer’s free-wheeling competitiveness to Peyton Manning’s ever-churning brain, those
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9:24 AM ET Indianapolis Colts safety Julian Blackmon will miss the rest of the 2021 season after suffering a torn Achilles, the team announced Thursday. Blackmon suffered the injury in practice Wednesday. Blackmon, 23, has started 20 games for the Colts since they drafted him in the third round of the 2020 NFL draft. He
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12:41 PM ET Bantamweight might be the best division in mixed martial arts and that extends to outside the UFC, as well. In a marquee matchup at 135 pounds, Sergio Pettis will defend his Bellator title in the weight class against former champion Kyoji Horiguchi on Dec. 3 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, Bellator
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7:00 AM ET Haralabos Voulgaris, the former Dallas Mavericks director of quantitative research and development who became a polarizing figure within the organization as his decision-making influence increased, compared the franchise’s dysfunction during his tenure to “high school drama.” Voulgaris discussed in depth the franchise’s internal issues — particularly the tension between him and longtime
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7:25 AM BST The Wallabies are taking the diplomatic approach to securing Quade Cooper’s availability for the U.K. leg of their spring tour, after the veteran playmaker was named for his fifth straight Test start in Saturday’s match against Japan. Wallabies coach Dave Rennie on Thursday unveiled a squad without the in-form Samu Kerevi —
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