Month: March 2022

4:40 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Iga Swiatek started her week by deciding that she wanted to set her sights on becoming the No. 1 player in the world, without knowing how long that quest would take. A few days and one surprising retirement later, mission accomplished. Women’s tennis has a new
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10:58 PM ET CHICAGO — As Kansas prepared to face Providence in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament, Jayhawks coach Bill Self reluctantly acknowledged his team’s improvement on defense. “I’m not exactly giddy about it yet because we haven’t been as consistently good,” Self said Thursday. “But I think people that follow us would
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10:20 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Nanna Koerstz Madsen shot a 5-under 67 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead in the JTBC Classic in a bid to win in consecutive starts. Two weeks after breaking though in Thailand to become the LPGA Tour’s first Danish champion, Koerstz Madsen was back on top
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10:00 PM ET Associated Press MESA, Ariz. — The Tampa Bay Rays acquired outfielder Harold Ramirez in a trade with the Chicago Cubs on Friday. Ramirez batted .268 with seven homers and 41 RBI in 99 games with Cleveland last season. He was acquired by the Cubs for cash in November. Chicago got minor league
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9:40 PM ET Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. — Chicago White Sox designated hitter Yermin Mercedes will miss the start of the season because of a left hand injury. A CT scan on Friday showed a hamate fracture in Mercedes’ hand. The team said he will have surgery Monday, and his projected recovery time is six
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9:38 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN PHILADELPHIA — The NCAA tournament has been played since 1939, an annual athletic carnival engineered to match the opposite ends of college basketball’s caste system. Over eight decades, thousands of games and dozens of precocious March darlings, Saint Peter’s found a way on Friday night to set a new historical
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8:21 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — On Wednesday night, Duke’s Paolo Banchero, Wendell Moore Jr. and Mark Williams had just finished their media responsibilities at the Chase Center when they bumped into Stephen Curry, who has not been with the Golden State Warriors recently while he rehabs a foot injury. Curry’s message to the three
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7:44 PM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — If it were up to Los Angeles Lakers coach Frank Vogel, LeBron James would be adding a fifth MVP award to his career accomplishments after this season. “He is as deserving for MVP consideration as anybody in the league,” Vogel said after practice Friday. “I know how the
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7:43 PM ET Major League Baseball, wary of players finding new ways to add additional tack to the baseball, will continue to routinely inspect pitchers for foreign substances during the 2022 season, according to an internal memo obtained by ESPN. The memo, distributed to teams on Friday by MLB senior vice president of on-field operations
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6:37 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Carolina Panthers wide receiver Shi Smith was arrested Friday on charges of possession of an unlawful handgun and a narcotic with intent to distribute, according to Union County, South Carolina, records. Smith, 23, was released from the county detention center on a $5,000 bond for the drug charge and
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6:29 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Ben Martin shot his second straight 6-under 66 on Friday to double his lead to 2 strokes in the PGA Tour’s Corales Puntacana Championship. Martin had four birdies in a late five-hole stretch, finishing the afternoon round on the front nine at breezy Corales Golf
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5:56 PM ET Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, who was entering the final year of his contract, agreed to a three-year extension, the team announced on Friday. Roberts, 49, has led the Dodgers to three World Series appearances and one championship through six seasons. His .622 regular-season winning percentage stands as the highest among
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5:52 PM ET Golden State Warriors center James Wiseman has been ruled out for the rest of the season and will continue rehabilitating his right knee, sources told ESPN on Friday. Wiseman has been recovering from a meniscus repair that he had in April 2021, and recent swelling in his right knee precluded him from
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