Month: March 2022

2:04 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots released veteran linebacker Kyle Van Noy on Monday, the team announced. The move creates about $4.1 million in salary-cap space, nearly doubling the Patriots’ total cap space to about $9 million. Van Noy was scheduled to count $7.3 million against the team’s cap, which was
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3:45 PM ET The Cincinnati Bengals on Monday used their franchise tag on safety Jessie Bates III, a source told ESPN. Bates, a key cog in the team’s run to the Super Bowl, had 11 solo and 20 total tackles in Cincinnati’s four postseason games, along with six passes defensed and two interceptions. He held
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3:40 PM ET The NFL has suspended Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Calvin Ridley for at least the 2022 season for betting on NFL games during the 2021 season. The league said Ridley’s betting took place during a five-day period in November 2021 when he was not with the team while on the non-football illness list.
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2:54 PM ET ESPN News Services Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star center Jarrett Allen suffered a fractured finger during the first quarter of his team’s 104-96 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Sunday. Allen will be sidelined indefinitely by the injury to the middle finger on his left (non-shooting) hand, the team announced. Allen also suffered a
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2:09 PM ET Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was denied bail Monday in his attempted murder case, per a Santa Clara County (California) court spokesperson. Judge Shelyna Brown of Santa Clara County Superior Court said the “risk is too great” to let Velasquez out on bail because of the “extreme recklessness” of the retired
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2:15 PM ET New York Jets owner Robert “Woody” Johnson is readying a bid for Chelsea FC in the English Premier League, according to sources close to the situation. Johnson already has spoken to Raine Group, which is organizing the bid process, per sources, and he now is vying to become the latest NFL owner
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2:04 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots have informed veteran linebacker Kyle Van Noy of their intention to release him, a source told ESPN’s Field Yates. The move creates about $4.1 million in salary-cap space, nearly doubling the Patriots’ total space to about $9 million. Van Noy was scheduled to count $7.3
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7:02 AM ET The Stanley Cup Playoffs are getting a makeover for the first time in 13 seasons. The NHL revealed new branding for its postseason on Monday, with the most photorealistic version of the Stanley Cup it has ever used in a logo. “We felt it was time for a fresh and energetic change.
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12:09 PM ET The Cleveland Browns placed the franchise tag on tight end David Njoku on Monday, the team announced. The deadline for teams to designate franchise players is Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET. The Browns and Njoku now have until July 15 to agree to a long-term contract or he will play the 2022
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12:15 PM ET Associated Press Gonzaga, Arizona and reigning national champion Baylor remained atop the Associated Press men’s college basketball poll Monday, while Tennessee cracked the top 10 for the first time this year and North Carolina returned to the Top 25 for the first time since November. Mark Few’s Bulldogs claimed 52 of 61
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has accused rivals Mercedes of “bullying” behaviour resulting in the exit of race director Michael Masi. “Was it right to fire him based on pressure that was placed on him from a rival team? That for me was wrong,” Horner said. “That’s tantamount to bullying. It’s passively aggressive.” Horner’s
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10:44 AM ET Pete Thamel Jeff Borzello Close ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Wake Forest signed men’s basketball coach Steve Forbes to a long-term contract extension Monday, the school announced. Forbes is in the second year of his initial six-year deal at the school, and
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9:52 AM ET CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Bengals tight end Drew Sample is looking to extract family members out of Ukraine during Russia’s invasion of the country. Sample and his wife, Angelina, told Fox News on Monday morning that Ang’s aunt and her grandparents on both sides of her family are still in the war-torn country.
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9:59 AM ET The Green Bay Packers have made a significant long-term contract offer to Aaron Rodgers that would alter the quarterback market, a source told ESPN. Terms of a potential new contract could always change, but a three- or four-year deal would help Green Bay’s salary-cap situation while giving Rodgers, 38, contractual clarity well
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