Month: March 2022

2:50 PM ET Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone has agreed to a multiyear contract extension with the team, it was announced Wednesday. Terms were not released. Malone, who had the 2022-2023 season remaining on his deal, will now be tied to the franchise through what it hopes will be a window of championship contention over
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1:52 PM ET Associated Press BRADENTON, Fla. — Pittsburgh Pirates center fielder Bryan Reynolds knows he earned a hefty raise after making the All-Star team and becoming a finalist for both the Gold Glove and the Silver Slugger awards, all while playing for $601,000 last season, just above the major league minimum. How much of
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3:25 PM ET Associated Press Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit will be the announcing team when Prime Video takes over the “Thursday Night Football” package in September. Michaels moves to Prime from NBC. His contract with NBC ended last month after he was in the booth for his 11th Super Bowl. “This is the new
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3:50 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Cornerback Malcolm Butler is returning home, agreeing to a two-year deal worth up to $9 million with the New England Patriots, his agent Derek Simpson told ESPN. Butler spent the 2021 season on the reserve/retired list after signing with the Arizona Cardinals and practicing with them throughout training camp
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3:48 PM ET LOS ANGELES — LeBron James has been ruled out of Wednesday night’s game against the Philadelphia 76ers because of soreness in his left knee, the Los Angeles Lakers announced. The Lakers’ next game isn’t until Sunday at New Orleans, giving James a six-day stretch to rest his ailing knee. It will be
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3:37 PM ET The Citadel is finalizing a deal to bring former head coach Ed Conroy back to the Bulldogs, sources told ESPN. An official announcement is expected this week. Conroy was the head coach at The Citadel — his alma mater — from 2006-10, going 49-76 overall but leading the Bulldogs to 20 wins
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1:37 PM ET Associated Press FORT MYERS, Fla. — Carlos Correa has declared October “his time.” It certainly hasn’t been Minnesota’s. The Twins hope Correa can fix that, even if his stay in Minneapolis is short. “I want to build a championship culture in this organization,” Correa said. The former Houston Astros star tugged on
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2:22 PM ET North Carolina wide receiver Tylee Craft has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and has begun chemotherapy treatments, he announced on Twitter on Wednesday. Craft wrote that he had been experiencing debilitating back pain and went to the hospital to get checked further. He was diagnosed with cancer March 14.
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1:55 PM ET Rutgers senior Ron Harper Jr. will declare for the 2022 NBA draft, he told ESPN on Wednesday. “I’m ready to put myself out there to get myself in the best position possible to be drafted,” Harper said. “I’m going all-in.” Harper, a projected second-round pick, was named an Associated Press All-American honorable
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12:55 PM ET Associated Press BORDEAUX, France — Twenty-six people were arrested in relation to a suspected doping ring in horse racing, prosecutors in France said Wednesday. The Bordeaux prosecutor’s office said those arrested on Tuesday were racehorse trainers and owners, doctors and pharmacists. Of those arrested, 25 were in France and another person was
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1:20 PM ET Associated Press FORT MYERS, Fla. — A bunch of Red Sox players reached out to recruit longtime Colorado Rockies shortstop Trevor Story when he was considering whether to sign with Boston. Even Xander Bogaerts, the man he might soon replace. “Bogie’s been amazing throughout this process of me coming here,” Story said
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12:54 PM BST Frenchman Loik Le Priol has been arrested in Hungary in connection with the murder in Paris last weekend of former Argentine rugby international Federico Aramburu, a source at the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. “I can confirm that Loik Le Priol was arrested last night in Hungary,” said the source, following
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11:38 AM ET The Atlanta Falcons, days after trading away franchise quarterback Matt Ryan, acknowledged Wednesday they are in the midst of a franchise-wide transition. While general manager Terry Fontenot and coach Arthur Smith were loath to use the word “rebuilding,” Fontenot did say the franchise is “taking it on the chin this year” in
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12:40 PM ET The Kansas City Chiefs are trading six-time Pro-Bowl wide receiver Tyreek Hill to the Miami Dolphins for five draft picks: a 2022 first-round pick (No. 29), a second-round pick (No. 50) and a fourth-round pick, as well as fourth- and sixth-round picks in the 2023 draft, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The
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