Month: December 2021

3:59 PM ET The NBA and National Basketball Players Association are near an agreement to reduce the 10-day quarantine periods for COVID-positive players, sources told ESPN on Thursday. The arrangement — expected to soon be shared with teams — could return some players to active play in six days, based on testing procedures, sources said.
0 Comments
2:54 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — In the midst of another COVID-19 outbreak, the Baltimore Ravens were down to 13 defensive players from their 53-man roster at Wednesday’s practice. “You go from the beginning of the season with our roster to right now, I don’t know if we’re playing football or the ‘Squid Game,'”
0 Comments
3:22 PM ET Associated Press The SEC and Big East have updated its policies for basketball game postponements, cancellations and rescheduling to provide more leniency for teams that are unable to play because of spiking COVID-19 cases. The policies for both conferences establish that men’s and women’s teams will be required to play if seven
0 Comments
2:53 PM ET Rutgers will replace Texas A&M as the opponent for Wake Forest in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl, sources confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. Rutgers posted a video to Twitter on Thursday saying the Scarlet Knights were “going BOWLING” without specifying the Gator Bowl, which is scheduled for Dec. 31 in Jacksonville, Florida. “Better
0 Comments
2:42 PM ET Clemson officially promoted Graham Neff to athletic director on Thursday following approval from the compensation committee of the school’s board of trustees. Neff, who has been at Clemson since 2013, was named interim athletic director after Dan Radakovich left for Miami and was widely expected to become the permanent AD. In his
0 Comments
1:19 PM ET Jeff Passan Close ESPN ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Kiley McDaniel Close ESPN MLB Insider ESPN MLB Insider Kiley McDaniel covers MLB prospects, the MLB Draft and more, including trades and free agency. Has worked for four MLB teams. Slugger
0 Comments
12:32 PM ET METAIRIE, La. — The New Orleans Saints‘ top two quarterbacks — Taysom Hill and Trevor Siemian — are both expected to land on the reserve/COVID-19 list Thursday, sources confirmed to ESPN. If they are unable to return, that would put rookie Ian Book in line to make his NFL debut against the
0 Comments
1:48 PM ET USADA, the UFC’s anti-doping partner, has suspended fighter Michel Prazeres four years because of a second doping violation, the agency announced Thursday. According to a USADA press release, Prazeres tested positive for multiple prohibited substances: anti-estrogen agent clomiphene, metabolites of the steroid oxandrolone and the exogenous administration of testosterone “and/or its precursors.”
0 Comments
1:01 PM ET EAGAN, Minn. — The Minnesota Vikings placed running back Dalvin Cook on the COVID-19/reserve list Thursday. Cook, who has been following protocols for unvaccinated players, is expected to be out for 10 days and miss Minnesota’s Week 16 game against the Los Angeles Rams. Cook, who was named to his third straight
0 Comments
11:58 AM ET Missouri sophomore quarterback Connor Bazelak, the SEC co-freshman of the year in 2020, is entering the college football transfer portal, he announced Thursday. Bazelak’s announcement on Twitter comes after he did not appear in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl on Wednesday night due to what the school said was a leg
0 Comments
11:06 AM ET James Harden, Paul Millsap and Jevon Carter have been cleared from health and safety protocols, and the Brooklyn Nets are expecting to have enough players for their Christmas Day game against the Los Angeles Lakers despite having three more players enter protocols. Nets coach Steve Nash said that while Harden, Millsap and
0 Comments
9:00 AM ET It’s hard to think about leveling up at a time when hockey is sinking into an abyss of positive tests, postponed games and a best-on-best Olympic tournament that will exist only in our daydreams and video game simulations. So let’s remember the good times, shall we? Here are 10 players and teams
0 Comments
9:09 AM ET Former world No. 1 Andy Murray has been handed a wildcard into the main draw of next month’s Australian Open, the tournament organisers said on Thursday. 1 Related The Briton, down at 134th in the world rankings after long injury lay-offs due to hip surgery, has reached the final five times at
0 Comments