Month: February 2022

8:04 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — The trial of Eric Kay, the former Los Angeles Angels communications director charged with the 2019 death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs, is headed to the jury. The defense rested Wednesday after presenting a brief case, and closing arguments are scheduled for Thursday morning. After that, 10 women and
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6:16 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Rory McIlroy is tired of talking about the proposed Saudi-backed Super Golf League, which may or may not strip the PGA Tour of a handful of its best players. “Not-so-super league,” McIlroy said, under his breath, when asked during a news conference at Riviera Country Club on Wednesday about
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7:31 PM ET Jamal CollierESPN CHICAGO — Chicago Bulls All-Star guard Zach LaVine‘s visit with a knee specialist in Los Angeles this week went “very well,” according to coach Billy Donovan, who said Wednesday LaVine is cleared to resume play for the team after the All-Star break. LaVine had fluid drained to relieve the swelling
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6:49 PM ET ESPN News Services IOWA CITY, Iowa — Ken O’Keefe will move from quarterbacks coach to an off-the-field role with the Iowa Hawkeyes, football coach Kirk Ferentz announced Wednesday. O’Keefe was a member of Ferentz’s first staff at Iowa, serving as offensive coordinator from 1999 to 2011 as well as receivers coach (1999)
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7:41 PM ET After missing two months due to an ankle injury, there’s optimism guard Derrick Rose will return to the New York Knicks‘ lineup out of the All-Star Break next week, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. Rose has been progressing on the court for a return, and barring setbacks, there’s confidence he’ll be ready
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6:57 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Negotiations aimed at ending Major League Baseball’s lockout will resume Thursday. The players’ association notified management Wednesday that it is ready to respond to the offer MLB made last weekend, proposals that were received coolly by the union. Baseball’s ninth work stoppage, its first since 1995, enters
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6:11 PM ET INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay playfully used the jubilation of Wednesday’s Super Bowl parade to coax the NFL’s best defensive player out of potential retirement, however faint those thoughts might have been in the first place. On a makeshift stage in front of the L.A. Coliseum, with the
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6:52 PM ET Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith and his Big Ten colleagues prefer to keep a nine-game league schedule, even if it limits the number of contests against teams from their alliance with the ACC and Pac-12. Smith, speaking Wednesday with reporters in Columbus, Ohio, said the Big Ten athletic directors “walked away”
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5:55 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The NFL has hired a law firm that includes former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to defend it and its teams in Brian Flores’ race discrimination lawsuit. Lynch, the attorney general in the latter part of the Obama administration, will work with Brad Karp, chairman at Paul,
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5:43 PM ET Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has agreed to a new five-year contract that runs through the 2026 season, the school announced on Wednesday. The new deal gives Harbaugh a one-year extension with new terms from the contract he signed last January. The renewed commitment comes exactly two weeks after Harbaugh’s highly publicized Feb.
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4:09 PM ET The Atlanta Falcons released Dante Fowler Jr. on Wednesday, moving on from the outside linebacker with one year left on his contract. Fowler had taken a pay cut entering the 2021 season as part of a reconfigured contract and then failed to hit any of the incentives that were placed in the
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4:15 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Some of the players who gave the NBA its global bounce will be in attendance when the league celebrates its 75th anniversary team during a special halftime ceremony at Sunday’s All-Star Game. Members of the diamond anniversary team will be inside Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse for the ceremony
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2:40 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR’s qualifying races likely will be tamer than normal. The Duel at Daytona scheduled for Thursday night — a qualifying event that splits 42 cars into two races and sets much of the starting grid for the season-opening Daytona 500 — could be a watered-down version
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12:42 PM ET As the dust from a seismic NBA trade deadline settles, tell yourself the season is nearly 3/4 done. And that the means to make meaningful changes to your fantasy franchises are narrowing. To strategically re-align for the stretch run, there’s only one place to start. Take an extended gander at the NBA
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2:41 PM ET The Washington Nationals offered a 13-year, $350 million extension to outfielder Juan Soto prior to the current lockout by Major League Baseball, he confirmed to ESPN’s Enrique Rojas on Wednesday. The offer, made before the work stoppage, was intended to start this season and did not include deferred money, a Nationals source
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