Month: February 2022

2:19 PM ET A bargaining session between Major League Baseball and the players’ union lasted just 15 minutes Thursday and produced little progress toward a new collective bargaining agreement, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN. The union offered tweaks to its arbitration demands while asking MLB for more money in a pre-arbitration bonus pool,
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5:19 PM ET Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. — Injured Clemson starting offensive lineman Hunter Rayburn is moving to the Tigers coaching staff. Rayburn will become a student coach on Dabo Swinney’s staff this upcming season because of neck problems, school spokesman Ross Taylor said Thursday. Rayburn is a 6-foot-4, 320-pound junior from Pensacola, Florida. He
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10:50 AM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Novak Djokovic on Thursday received a warm welcome in Dubai, where he visited the world’s fair following the global discussion around his decision to remain unvaccinated. After being twice detained and deported from Australia ahead of the year’s first Grand Slam Tournament last month, Djokovic
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2:23 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Even though the Saudi Arabian government has been accused of myriad human rights violations by watch groups around the world, Phil Mickelson says he is willing to get involved with a Saudi-financed breakaway golf league to have leverage with the PGA Tour. “They’re scary motherf—ers to get involved with,”
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4:39 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Tom Clements, one of the coaches Aaron Rodgers has long credited for his development during his early days in the NFL, is coming out of retirement to return to the Packers as quarterbacks coach. Clements verbally accepted the job on Thursday, a source told ESPN. The contract still
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4:06 PM ET ESPN News Services The jury in the case against former Los Angeles Angels communications director Eric Kay has found him guilty of distributing fentanyl and causing the death of former pitcher Tyler Skaggs in 2019. The jury, which began deliberations Thursday morning, wasted little time in reaching its conclusion. The 10-woman, two-man
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3:19 PM ET Ohio State kept one of the top in-state football prospects home on Thursday when ESPN Junior 300 offensive lineman Luke Montgomery committed to the Buckeyes. Montgomery had a top list that included Ohio State, Michigan, Clemson, Oklahoma and Notre Dame. He’s the No. 69 prospect overall and a 6-foot-5, 260-pound lineman from
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3:31 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — Jurors in the U.S. v Eric Kay began deliberations Thursday morning, with two scenarios to choose between. The federal government says the former Los Angeles Angels communications director was a drug dealer who caused the death of Tyler Skaggs in July 2019 by giving him the deadly opioid
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1:58 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The NHL has fined Nashville Predators coach John Hynes $25,000 for inappropriate conduct at the end of a 4-1 loss to Washington. The league announced the fine Thursday. Hynes was assessed a game misconduct at the end of Tuesday night’s loss in Nashville. It was the Predators’
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2:01 PM ET Associated Press PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Rutgers leading scorer Ron Harper Jr. injured his left hand late in a win over No. 12 Illinois, and his status for the men’s basketball game against No. 5 Purdue on Sunday is uncertain. The university released a statement Thursday, saying the injury was to the senior
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1:16 PM ET The Denver Broncos have hired Los Angeles Rams secondary coach and passing game coordinator Ejiro Evero as their defensive coordinator on new head coach Nathaniel Hackett’s coaching staff, the team announced Thursday. Evero was a college teammate of Hackett’s at UC Davis. This season was the 41-year-old Evero’s fifth with the Rams
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12:45 PM GMT A consortium of investors including a South African World Cup-winning captain, Francois Pienaar, has completed a £32 million ($43.47m) takeover of Saracens, the English Premiership club announced. Saracens, five-time Premiership champions, were relegated at the end of the 2019-20 season as punishment for multiple salary cap breaches. But they won promotion back
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