Month: March 2022

8:25 PM ET GLENDALE, Ariz. — Retirement was never a realistic option for Clayton Kershaw, so long as his left arm cooperated. “Once I got healthy, it was no secret — I was either gonna go play in Texas or stay here,” Kershaw said from the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ spring training facility on Sunday afternoon,
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7:46 PM ET Tight end Zach Ertz, traded to the Arizona Cardinals from the Philadelphia Eagles last season, agreed to terms on a three-year contract to stay with his new club, the team announced Sunday night. The deal is worth $31.65 million with $17.5 million guaranteed, a source told ESPN. Ertz wanted to stay in
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7:53 PM ET The Minnesota Vikings and Kirk Cousins have agreed to a one-year extension, Mike McCartney, the quarterback’s agent, announced Sunday. A source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that the Vikings gave Cousins a fully guaranteed $35 million extension. The quarterback will make $40 million this season and $30 million in 2023. The deal has
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7:22 PM ET Tom Brady is returning as the quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next season, he announced on Twitter Sunday. “These past two months I’ve realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands,” Brady wrote. “That time will come. But it’s not now. I love my teammates, and
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6:09 PM ET Georgia plans to hire Florida’s Mike White as its next coach, sources told ESPN. The Bulldogs fired Tom Crean after four seasons on Thursday and moved quickly to secure White. Cleveland State’s Dennis Gates and Chattanooga’s Lamont Paris were also involved in the search, sources told ESPN, but Georgia had quietly laid
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6:36 PM ET Associated Press Gonzaga received the top overall seed for the NCAA tournament, with Arizona, Kansas and defending champion Baylor joining the Zags as No. 1s. The March Madness bracket came out Sunday for a tournament that begins with early round games Tuesday and concludes with the Final Four in New Orleans on
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4:52 PM ET ESPN News Services Stephen Strasburg played catch when the Washington Nationals held their first official workout of spring training on Sunday, and the 2019 World Series MVP sat down for a chat with manager Dave Martinez and pitching coach Jim Hickey to discuss where things stand as he comes back from two
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5:42 PM ET ESPN News Services Colin Kaepernick is seeking receivers to catch his passes and a team to sign him. Kaepernick, who led the San Francisco 49ers to a Super Bowl appearance following the 2012 season, last played in the NFL in 2016, the same year he started kneeling during the national anthem to
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4:47 PM ET Former ESPN anchor Alan Massengale has died, his former TV station KCBS reported. He was 63. Massengale was diagnosed with colon cancer more than six years ago and was placed on life support after suffering a brain bleed following a slip and fall. Massengale was a SportsCenter anchor in the 1980s. His
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4:33 PM ET Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Watching the Houston Astros’ run through the 2021 playoffs, Justin Verlander considered lending a hand — an arm, actually — to the cause. The two-time AL Cy Young Award winner had pitched in only one game since 2019, but his bullpen sessions while rehabbing from
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4:02 PM ET Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — Santiago Vescovi scored 17 points and Josiah-Jordan James had 16 points and 10 rebounds to help ninth-ranked Tennessee beat Texas A&M 65-50 on Sunday to claim its first men’s SEC basketball tournament title in 43 years. The second-seeded Volunteers (26-7) never trailed, rattling off the first 14
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3:07 PM ET Milwaukee Bucks forward DeAndre’ Bembry is feared to have suffered a season-ending knee injury, sources told ESPN on Sunday. Bembry is undergoing imaging Sunday, but that’s expected to confirm that he suffered a serious injury in Saturday night’s 122-109 loss to the Golden State Warriors, sources said. Bembry had averaged nearly 10
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