Month: March 2022

2:07 AM ET Shortstop Carlos Correa and the Minnesota Twins are in agreement on a three-year, $105.3 million contract that includes opt-outs after the first two seasons, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Correa’s deal will pay him $35.1 million in each of the three years, sources said. Correa, 27, is coming off perhaps his
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2:39 AM ET MILWAUKEE — Johnny Davis took the ball from teammate Steven Crowl, jab-stepped and waited another second before swishing a 3-pointer with 1:27 to play. The Wisconsin star then waved goodbye to a group of vocal Colgate fans sitting amid the Wisconsin-heavy crowd at Fiserv Forum. “There wasn’t too many of them,” Davis
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1:28 AM ET SAN DIEGO — After more than three decades, TCU’s NCAA tournament win drought is over. The Horned Frogs’ 69-42 win against Seton Hall marked the program’s first tournament win since beating Marshall in 1987, when current coach Jamie Dixon was a senior guard. “Man, it’s been 35 years — 35 years,” forward
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11:36 PM ET Free-agent outfielder Nick Castellanos and the Philadelphia Phillies are in agreement on a five-year, $100 million contract, sources familiar with the deal told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Castellanos, 30, is coming off his best big-league season for Cincinnati, a campaign in which he ranked in the top 10 of the National League in
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10:46 PM ET The Atlanta Braves signed longtime Los Angeles Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen to a one-year, $16 million contract, the team announced Friday. Jansen, 34, has spent his entire 12-year career in the majors with the Dodgers, helping the franchise win a World Series in 2020. He will now pitch for a team in
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11:09 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic has declared he is done ranting at referees and has discovered a trick to help prevent him from venting his frustration when the whistle doesn’t go his way. “It’s a funny thing — I just start singing a song in my head,” Doncic said after
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8:21 PM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — To cap what he called a “crazy, crazy week,” defensive end Randy Gregory was formally introduced by the Denver Broncos Friday after he signed his five-year, $70 million deal. Gregory’s highly-publicized flip from a return to the Dallas Cowboys the team announced on its social media accounts earlier this
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8:33 PM ET ASHBURN, Va. — Anheuser-Busch, a key sponsor of the NFL, severed ties with the Washington Commanders on Friday, though no reason was cited for the decision. Anheuser-Busch, which has sponsored the NFL for a decade and also has partnerships with 26 other teams, said in a statement to the Washington Post that
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10:22 PM ET John Clayton, one of the country’s foremost NFL insiders who covered the league to great depths during a 20-plus-year career at ESPN, died Friday after a brief illness, his family said. He was 67. “The Seahawks are heartbroken to learn of the passing of John Clayton after a battle with a brief
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10:50 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Cleveland State‘s Dennis Gates has emerged as the target in Missouri‘s men’s basketball search, sources told ESPN on Friday night., A deal isn’t done, and there’s still administrative steps to take, but sources said there’s clear mutual interest between both parties. Gates won back-to-back Horizon League regular-season titles at Cleveland
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8:59 PM ET Associated Press INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Taylor Fritz defeated Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia, 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-1 Friday to reach the semifinals of the BNP Paribas Open for the second time in five months. The 24-year-old American is in the midst of the best stretch of his young career, and it all
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