Month: October 2021

1:27 PM ET Alabama got a commitment from ESPN 300 defensive back Tre’Quon Fegans on Monday, adding to the No. 2-ranked class overall. Fegans is the No. 64 prospect overall and a 6-foot-1, 185-pound player from Thompson High School in Alabaster, Alabama. He had been committed to Miami since July, but decommitted from the Hurricanes
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11:18 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Richard Sherman will be out for a few weeks with a hamstring injury, a source confirmed to ESPN on Monday. An MRI confirmed the initial diagnosis for a pulled hamstring, suffered Thursday night in the Bucs’ 28-22 win over the Philadelphia Eagles. Sherman suffered the
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1:14 PM ET Associated Press Danielle Scott decided to join the family business. She has taken it to a new level. Scott, the daughter of college basketball officials, was promoted Monday to the full-time NBA staff referee roster. She becomes the sixth woman on the current staff, joining Lauren Holtkamp-Sterling, Ashley Moyer-Gleich, Simone Jelks, Natalie
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12:17 PM ET Cleveland Browns running back Kareem Hunt is expected to miss “several weeks” with a calf injury, coach Kevin Stefanski said Monday. Hunt suffered the injury Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals. He had to be helped off the field, then was carted to the locker room. Hunt is expected to go on injured
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12:12 PM ET Associated Press Gonzaga carried a No. 1 ranking all last season before falling a win short of becoming college basketball’s first unbeaten national champion in 45 years. Mark Few’s Bulldogs start this season in the same position, hoping to complete that final step this time around. The Zags were the runaway top
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11:42 AM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — Bob Baffert can enter horses in the Breeders’ Cup next month at Del Mar, but the event’s all-time money-leading trainer has to meet certain conditions, including stricter out-of-competition testing of his horses and greater security at his barn. The conditions are the result of a review by
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3:03 AM BST ESPN staff The New Zealand rugby community is in mourning after it was confirmed that Chiefs winger Sean Wainui had died in a car crash on Monday morning. Wainui, 25, hit a tree while driving in Omanawa, near Tauranga, on New Zealand’s north island. Bay of Plenty Police released a statement saying
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11:40 AM ET Memphis Grizzlies forward Jaren Jackson Jr. has agreed to a four-year, $105 million rookie contract extension, his agent, Austin Brown of CAA Sports, told ESPN on Monday. Grizzlies general manager Zach Kleiman and Brown finalized details on the agreement ahead of a 6 p.m. ET deadline for the 2018 draft class. Jackson
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Nov 7, 2019 Mark KriegelESPN Editor’s note: This feature was originally published ahead of Jamel Herring’s fight against Masayuki Ito in May 2019. Herring beat Ito by unanimous decision. He will defend his title against Shakur Stevenson on Oct. 23, 2021. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Some fighters you love for what they can do in
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7:45 AM ET It’s never a good sign for a manager when his most high-profile players begin to talk openly about a need for improvement, so for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Manchester United, there can be no positive spin about Paul Pogba following Bruno Fernandes by publicly calling for things to change at Old Trafford.
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11:38 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN PITTSBURGH — Seattle Seahawks defensive end Darrell Taylor was immobilized and taken off the field on a stretcher in the fourth quarter of Sunday night’s 23-20 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Coach Pete Carroll, while not specifying Taylor’s injury, said after the game that preliminary CT scans were clear
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2:10 AM ET PITTSBURGH — After winning Sunday night’s game against the Seattle Seahawks 23-20 in overtime, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin was still incensed about a call in the final seconds of regulation. With time running out and the Seahawks driving for a game-tying field goal, quarterback Geno Smith completed a 12-yard pass to
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