Month: October 2021

11:23 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The average time of a nine-inning game set a record once again this year despite Major League Baseball’s efforts to improve pace. The average was 3 hours, 10 minutes, 7 seconds for the 2021 regular season, the commissioner’s office said after the regular season ended Sunday. That
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5:55 PM ET ESPN News Services WASHINGTON — Boston Red Sox slugger J.D. Martinez left Sunday’s regular-season finale against the Washington Nationals in the sixth inning with a sprained left ankle, and his availability for the postseason opener on Tuesday is not known. After defeating Washington to clinch the American League’s top wild-card slot, Boston
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10:26 PM ET The LA Galaxy and visiting LAFC struggled to find some separation in their intense rivalry, playing to a 1-1 draw on Sunday at Carson, California. With both teams desperate to move up in the Western Conference standings, each had to settle for a single point after a pair of first-half goals. Both
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7:36 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Sam Burns ran off four birdies in a six-hole stretch to start the back nine and pulled away for a 5-under 67 to win the Sanderson Farms Championship on Sunday for his second PGA Tour victory this year. Against a list of contenders looking for their first
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7:26 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — The “special player” the New York Giants insist they have with quarterback Daniel Jones was on full display Sunday. Jones put the Giants on his shoulders in a 27-21 win over the New Orleans Saints at Caesars Superdome, rallying them from an 11-point fourth-quarter deficit against one of the
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4:56 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hit a major milestone on the first drive of the Pittsburgh Steelers‘ game at Green Bay on Sunday. With a 45-yard touchdown strike to Diontae Johnson on third down, Roethlisberger threw his 400th passing touchdown, joining an exclusive club that includes Packers quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers
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4:18 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — Andy Reid went back to where it began to enter the NFL record book on Sunday. Reid became the first coach to win 100 games, counting the playoffs, with two different teams. His 100th win with the Kansas City Chiefs came when they beat his former team, the Philadelphia Eagles,
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6:29 PM ET DENVER — Denver Broncos quarterback Teddy Bridgewater departed Sunday’s 23-7 loss to the Baltimore Ravens with a concussion. Bridgewater — who took several big hits in the opening half, including on his last pass attempt before halftime — was evaluated for a concussion at the half before officially being ruled out in
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5:05 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It took 15 quarters, but rookie quarterback Zach Wilson finally displayed the playmaking ability that prompted the New York Jets to select him with the second pick in the NFL draft. Wilson stepped up in the fourth quarter Sunday at MetLife Stadium, throwing two touchdown passes to lift
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5:56 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers rookie quarterback Trey Lance stepped in for starter Jimmy Garoppolo to open the second half of Sunday’s game against the Seattle Seahawks. Moments after Lance took the first snap of the third quarter, the Niners announced that Garoppolo is dealing with a right calf injury
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8:37 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots honored Tom Brady with a one-minute video of his top highlights, which sparked the rain-soaked crowd to chant his name in appreciation before the star quarterback led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers onto the field for Sunday night’s game at Gillette Stadium. Cheers of “Brady! Brady!
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6:47 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Giants finally won the National League West without needing to wait for the rival Dodgers’ result on the season’s final day, pounding the San Diego Padres 11-4 on Sunday for a franchise-record 107th victory to top the 1904 New York team. Logan Webb
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