Month: December 2021

1:56 PM ET A new College Football Playoff policy written this week in response to the surging omicron variant allows for a team to advance to the national championship — and ultimately win it — by its opponents having to forfeit, according to an updated set of COVID-19 policies the CFP released on Wednesday. The
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2:42 PM ET Adrian Wojnarowski Close Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Tim MacMahon Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM Dallas Mavericks All-NBA guard Luka Doncic has entered the league’s health and
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7:15 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens United States international Sergino Dest is one of the players Barcelona are prepared to listen to offers for in January to help fund other signings, sources have told ESPN. Barca have made strengthening their attack next month a priority but must move on players before they can even
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1:27 PM ET Associated Press The ACC is changing its rescheduling policy to avoid assigning forfeits for teams unable to play due to COVID-19 protocols. League athletic directors unanimously supported the change announced Wednesday. The decision comes amid the rise in COVID-19 cases and the increase in cancellations and postponements of basketball games nationally. Games
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1:33 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball’s lockout has left the New York Yankees unaware of how DJ LeMahieu, Aaron Hicks, Jameson Taillon and Darren O’Day are progressing following surgery. Hicks, rehabbing from a May 26 operation to repair a torn tendon sheath in his left wrist, hit .265 (13-for-49) in
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1:24 PM ET Texas A&M will not participate in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl because of COVID-19 issues and season-ending injuries within the program, leaving Wake Forest without an opponent as officials try to find a replacement team, it was announced Wednesday. “It is unfortunate, but we just don’t have enough scholarship players available to field
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1:09 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Daniel Jones‘ season may be over, but it doesn’t appear he believes his time as the New York Giants‘ quarterback has come to an end. Jones, who was shut down for the remainder of the season earlier this week because of a neck injury, sounds like he expects
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12:35 PM ET The Atlanta Hawks added two more players to the NBA’s health and safety protocols Wednesday and signed Lance Stephenson amid the COVID-19 surge that has impacted rosters around the league. Lou Williams and Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot were added to the team’s protocols list, joining Trae Young, Clint Capela and Danilo Gallinari, who had
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11:59 AM ET LSU linebacker Damone Clark announced Wednesday that he is opting out of the Texas Bowl. Clark, a senior, was a second team All-American. He leads LSU with 135 tackles and 15.5 tackles for loss this season. He ranked second with 5.5 sacks. ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. lists Clark as the fifth highest-rated
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11:25 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — New York Jets coach Robert Saleh has tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday morning, the team announced. Saleh, 42, was tested for the virus after reporting symptoms, according to the team. Tight ends coach Ron Middleton is leading practice on Wednesday. If Saleh doesn’t clear protocols by Sunday,
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11:24 AM ET BEREA, Ohio — NFLPA president JC Tretter said the NFL was close to canceling three games this past weekend in the wake of multiple COVID-19 outbreaks among different teams. The league instead moved Saturday’s game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Browns in Cleveland to Monday, and rescheduled two Sunday games —
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11:18 AM ET Free-agent guard Joe Johnson is returning to the NBA after a three-year absence and at age 40, as he is signing a 10-day contract with the Boston Celtics, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Johnson is expected to play in Wednesday’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, sources said. He last played in the
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10:05 AM ET Thursday’s scheduled game between the Nets and Trail Blazers has been postponed, as the NBA announced that coronavirus-struck Brooklyn does not have the required eight players available for the contest. This is the third straight Nets game that has been postponed over the past week. Games against the Denver Nuggets on Sunday
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9:00 AM ET This has been one of my annual columns for ESPN for a while now, and it’s always fun to look back at the previous year’s list to see which prospective fights, if any, came to fruition. So, before getting into the MMA fights I want to see in 2022, let’s take a
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9:42 AM ET BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns are waiving punter Jamie Gillan, a league source told ESPN on Wednesday. The Browns placed Gillan on the reserve/COVID-19 list on Dec. 9 and replaced him by signing veteran Dustin Colquitt. In two games, Colquitt punted well, placing four of his 12 punts inside the opponent’s
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