Month: December 2021

4:03 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — The Colorado Rockies are bringing Clint Hurdle back to serve as a special assistant to general manager Bill Schmidt. Hurdle, who managed the Rockies to the World Series in 2007, will help with player development and the first-year player draft in his new role. “Clint has a long
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4:16 PM ET David Wilson One of the best players in the FCS, Incarnate Word quarterback Cameron Ward, has entered the transfer portal. Ward won the Jerry Rice Award as the best player in FCS during the spring season this year at the private school in San Antonio, Texas. He then threw for 4,648 yards
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4:21 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Quarterback Cam Newton shouldered some of the blame for the Carolina Panthers firing offensive coordinator Joe Brady coming off a dismal showing against the Miami Dolphins before the bye week. “Do I think I had something to do with it?” Newton said on Thursday as he prepared to face
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3:27 PM ET Florida leading receiver Jacob Copeland announced on Thursday that he will enter the transfer portal. A redshirt junior, Copeland finished the season with a team-high 39 catches for 607 yards and four touchdowns. Copeland’s announcement comes after new head coach Billy Napier was introduced on Sunday. A former four-star prospect from Pensacola,
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3:28 PM ET Florida State named Michael Alford as its new athletic director Thursday, with the Seminoles changing course after targeting Louisville AD Vince Tyra for the job. Alford has served as president and CEO of Seminole Boosters since 2020, accepting that job after spending time as athletic director at Central Michigan from 2017 to
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2:23 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN METAIRIE, La. — New Orleans Pelicans guard Kira Lewis has torn the ACL and suffered a Grade 2 MCL sprain in his right knee and will miss the remainder of the season, the team announced Thursday. The injury occurred in the Pelicans’ 120-114 overtime loss to the Denver Nuggets on
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2:09 PM ET Indiana has hired former UMass coach Walt Bell as its offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, the school announced Thursday. Bell comes to IU after he was fired in early November following a 2-23 record in three seasons with the Minutemen. Before that, he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Arkansas
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2:41 PM ET Jamal Collier Chicago Bulls forward Derrick Jones Jr. entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols on Thursday, making him the fifth Bulls player sidelined during what has become a teamwide COVID-19 outbreak. Jones joins DeMar DeRozan, Matt Thomas, Coby White and Javonte Green all entering the league’s protocols in a nine-day span.
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1:48 PM ET Florida State defensive end Jermaine Johnson II officially declared for the NFL draft on Thursday. Johnson, rated the No. 7 defensive end prospect in ESPN’s Mel Kiper’s 2022 draft position rankings, transferred to Florida State for the 2021 season after a career spent as a backup at Georgia. He blossomed with the
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1:12 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Prosecutors are entitled to blood test results in their felony drunken-driving case against former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III, but they can’t ask doctors what Ruggs said about the fiery fatal crash or his injuries, a Las Vegas judge said Thursday. Justice of the Peace Pro
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1:20 PM GMT South Africa and Saracens prop Vincent Koch will join Wasps next season, the club announced on Thursday. The 31-year-old, who has 31 international caps and played a crucial part in the Springboks side that lifted the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan, has played his club rugby in England since joining Saracens
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11:09 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Irish jockey Robbie Dunne was given an 18-month suspension on Thursday after being found guilty of bullying and harassing female rider Bryony Frost in a disciplinary case that highlighted a weighing-room culture described as “not conducive to the development of modern-day race-riding.” Dunne was found in breach on
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12:28 PM ET Associated Press Alabama quarterback Bryce Young is the Associated Press College Football Player of the Year, giving the Crimson Tide their second consecutive winner. Young received 42 of 53 first-place votes from AP Top 25 voters and 137 points to easily finish ahead of Michigan defensive end Aidan Hutchinson (four first-place votes,
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12:39 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — In his first day back in the office coming off of 10-day absence due to COVID-19, Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy expressed confidence in his team heading into Sunday’s game against the Washington Football Team. “We’re going to win this game,” McCarthy said. “I’m confident in that.” It wasn’t
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