Month: March 2022

4:48 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — Jayson Tatum scored a season-high 54 points — 34 of them in the second half — and the Boston Celtics overcame a rare appearance of both Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving in the Nets lineup, beating Brooklyn 126-120 on Sunday. Durant played in his second game since mid-January
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3:00 PM ET The MLB Players Association gave a written collective bargaining agreement proposal to Major League Baseball on Sunday. It included a $5 million reduction to the union’s last offer in a pre-arbitration bonus pool, but it did not include any changes to its competitive balance tax proposal, according to sources familiar with the
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2:59 PM ET MANCHESTER, England — David Moyes was once ridiculed for saying that Manchester United should aspire to be like Manchester City, but the former United manager was right when he said it in 2014 and it still rings true today, following another City derby win on Sunday — 4-1 this time — which
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3:00 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Isaiah Wilkins scored 19 points as Longwood advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time with a 79-58 victory over Winthrop on Sunday in the Big South tournament championship game. Top-seeded Longwood (26-6) never trailed, led by as many as 21 in the first half and
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12:25 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — The Celtics‘ Jaylen Brown started Sunday afternoon’s game against the Brooklyn Nets after successfully testing out his sprained right ankle before tipoff. Celtics coach Ime Udoka had said earlier Sunday that Brown’s status would be determined by a pregame workout, and that the ankle sprain — which Brown
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12:29 PM ET Top-25 senior Skyy Clark has decommitted from Kentucky and reopened his recruitment, he confirmed to ESPN on Sunday. Clark originally picked the Wildcats back in October 2020 and signed with John Calipari’s program last fall. “Honestly, I have had a lot of time to sit back and think and watch things play
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11:49 AM ET Associated Press Ukrainian refugee Dayana Yastremska took Zhang Shuai of China to three sets Sunday in the final of the Lyon Open, which Zhang won 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. The 21-year-old Yastremska only fled her home in war-torn Odessa, Ukraine, last week following the Russian invasion. She spent two nights sheltering in an
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11:52 AM ET Major League Baseball wants a 14-second pitch clock with the bases empty and a 19-second timer with runners on, according to sources familiar with the situation. The two numbers were settled on after experiments in the minor leagues, including in Low-A in 2021, where game times were cut by about 20 minutes.
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3:26 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — World No. 1 Jin Young Ko birdied the 18th hole on Sunday for a 6-under 66 to win the LPGA Tour’s HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore by two strokes over fellow South Korean player In Gee Chun and Australian Minjee Lee. Ko has won six times in
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