Month: April 2022

5:16 PM ET Rutgers athletic director Pat Hobbs has received a contract extension through June 2028. Hobbs, who has led Rutgers athletics for the past seven years, previously received a contract extension in 2017. His new agreement, approved Friday by Rutgers’ board, increases the cap on Hobbs’ potential bonus payments from $100,000 to $200,000. The
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5:20 PM ET Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid is experiencing significant pain and discomfort in his right thumb and could get an MRI in the near future to determine whether there is ligament damage, sources told ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne and Adrian Wojnarowski. Despite the discomfort, Embiid practiced on Friday and expects to play in Game
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4:11 PM ET Associated Press STUTTGART, Germany — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek ended US Open champion Emma Raducanu‘s first clay tournament run with a 6-4, 6-4 win Friday to move into the Stuttgart Open semifinals. Swiatek extended her win streak to 21 matches and moved closer to what would be a fourth consecutive title after victories
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4:27 PM ET Associated Press Top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Grigor Dimitrov 6-1, 6-4 to advance to the Barcelona Open quarterfinals, which will be played just hours later on Friday. Tsitsipas converted six of eight break point chances to stay on course to claiming a second consecutive clay-court title after winning Monte Carlo last weekend. After
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4:29 PM ET Associated Press Defending champion Sorana Cirstea advanced to the semifinals at the clay-court Istanbul Championship by defeating Julia Grabher of Austria 7-5, 6-1 on Friday. The Romanian last year ended a 13-year wait for her second career singles title when she upset Elise Mertens in the final. Cirstea will next play third-seeded
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4:29 PM ET The Sacramento Kings have secured permission to interview several assistant coaches for their head-coaching job, including Golden State‘s Mike Brown, Brooklyn consultant Steve Clifford, Milwaukee‘s Darvin Ham and Charles Lee, and Boston‘s Will Hardy, sources told ESPN on Friday. Among other candidates whom the Kings don’t need permission to interview and are
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2:31 PM ET Vegas Golden Knights goalie Robin Lehner is undergoing season-ending surgery for a lower-body injury, sources told ESPN on Friday. Lehner suffered the injury in a March 8 loss to the Flyers in Philadelphia. He left the team’s road trip to receive more testing after the initial injury and missed Vegas’ next several
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3:41 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have restructured the contract of quarterback Tom Brady, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Friday. The move frees up $9 million in salary-cap space at a time when the Bucs could certainly use it. Prior to the move, the Bucs had just under $4.4
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2:41 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Surrounded by more than 100 members of Dwayne Haskins’ family, friends and former teammates and coaches clutching single-stem yellow roses, Kalabrya Haskins helped release a trio of white doves over her husband’s casket while gospel music played. The Pittsburgh Steelers honored the life of the former quarterback in a service
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3:43 PM ET Boston Celtics center Robert Williams III intends to make a return in limited minutes for Game 3 vs. Brooklyn on Saturday — with an intention of escalating his minutes in Game 4 on Monday, sources told ESPN. The plan is contingent on Williams’ left knee remaining pain-free prior to Saturday’s Game 3
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1:49 PM ET Zach Edey, a second-team All-Big Ten center, will return to Purdue for his junior season, the school announced Friday, ending speculation that the 7-foot-4 talent would enter the NBA draft. Edey averaged 14.4 points, 7.7 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game for a Purdue squad that finished second in adjusted offensive efficiency,
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1:46 PM ET CHICAGO — Chicago Cubs outfielder Clint Frazier will be placed on the injured list after undergoing surgery for appendicitis, the team announced on Friday morning. Frazier, 27, has appeared in 10 games this season after the Cubs signed him as a free agent during the winter. He was the fifth overall pick
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1:38 PM ET Blake Treinen, a setup man who is one of the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ most important relief pitchers, was placed on the injured list Friday with what the team described as right shoulder discomfort. The severity of Treinen’s injury was not yet known. Treinen, who had a 2.48 ERA in 99 appearances for
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