Month: December 2021

6:38 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys will be without left tackle Tyron Smith Sunday against the New York Giants because of an aggravation of a left ankle injury that knocked him out of three games earlier this season. Smith left in the second half of last week’s win against the Washington Football
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8:08 PM ET HENDERSON, Nev. — Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium is expected to be announced as the site of Super Bowl LVIII in 2024 at the NFL owners meetings in Dallas on Wednesday, sources confirmed to ESPN. Both the NFL and the Las Vegas Raiders declined comment. The selection of Las Vegas as a host
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6:46 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — The Carolina Hurricanes announced on Monday that star center Sebastian Aho, rookie center Seth Jarvis and a member of the training staff have entered the COVID-19 protocol. The team said all three would remain in Vancouver. The Hurricanes lost there 2-1 on Sunday, with Aho missing
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5:30 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Pep Guardiola believes New York City FC striker Valentin Castellanos is ready to leave MLS and take the next step in his career in Europe. Castellanos, 23, finished the regular season with 19 goals before adding three in the play-offs as New York City claimed the first MLS Cup triumph
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7:27 PM ET Team executives and other health officials around the NBA said they expect that more players will have to enter health and safety protocols after Christmas and New Year’s due to the likelihood of increasing cases of COVID-19 nationwide as people gather indoors for the holidays. Looming over the current uptick is the
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6:46 PM ET Associated Press Roland Hemond, whose 70-year career in baseball included three Executive of the Year awards as general manager of the Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles, died Sunday night. He was 92. The Arizona Diamondbacks, with whom he spent 19 seasons, announced Hemond’s death Monday. “He passed peacefully in his son
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6:13 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Virginia‘s new coach achieved the first big victory of his tenure on Monday when quarterback Brennan Armstrong said he has given no thought to transferring. Coach Tony Elliott met with the Cavaliers for the first time on Sunday night, and Armstrong — who threw for 4,444 yards
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6:18 PM ET An unusually high number of positive COVID-19 tests Monday has the NFL and NFLPA considering further changes to the league’s COVID protocols as the NFL’s regular season enters its final four weeks. Sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that the league had 37 positive COVID tests Monday. These numbers tend to be higher
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5:02 PM ET Alaina GetzenbergESPN BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen has a left foot sprain and is considered day-to-day, coach Sean McDermott said Monday. Allen suffered the injury in the fourth quarter of Buffalo’s 33-27 overtime loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. “We’ll just see how he responds to treatment,” McDermott said.
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4:19 PM ET Justin Verlander‘s two-year, $50 million agreement with the Houston Astros has been given formal approval by Major League Baseball, industry sources told ESPN, even at a time when the owners have locked out the players in the ongoing labor battle. Verlander reached an agreement with Houston last month before the expiration of
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3:26 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was not ruled out against the Green Bay Packers on Monday, a day after he sprained his right ankle in Sunday’s 24-22 loss to the Cleveland Browns. “The plans are right now, in my mind, for Lamar to be out there,” Ravens coach
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4:22 PM ET A stat-keeping error that impacted the final score and point spread of a mid-major college basketball game Saturday was spotted by bettors, prompting some sportsbooks to pay out winning wagers on both teams. The mistake occurred late in the second half of the Illinois State–Chicago State game Saturday. A made free throw
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2:56 PM ET Goalie Anton Khudobin was waived by the Dallas Stars on Monday. Khudobin, 35, has struggled this season. He has a 3-3-1 record with a .873 save percentage, second-lowest in the NHL for goalies with at least seven appearances. He also has a 3.73 goals-against average. Thanks to the stellar play of offseason
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2:03 PM ET Ryan Bader is returning to the Bellator heavyweight division — where he holds the title — for the first time in more than two years. Bader will face interim champion Valentin Moldavsky in a heavyweight title unification fight in the main event of a Bellator card Jan. 29 in Phoenix, the promotion
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3:46 PM ET Khabib Nurmagomedov‘s MMA promotion Eagle FC will host its first-ever U.S. event on Jan. 28, and there has been a change to the main event. The event, Eagle FC 44, was originally supposed to feature Tyrone Spong (2-0) against Antonio ‘Bigfoot’ Silva (19-13) in a three-round heavyweight main event. Eagle FC officials
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