Month: April 2022

9:36 PM ET DALLAS — Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic will be suspended for Sunday’s regular-season finale unless the NBA office rescinds the technical foul called against him after the first quarter of Friday night’s 128-78 win over the Portland Trail Blazers. It was officially Doncic’s 16th technical foul of the season, triggering an automatic one-game
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8:50 PM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. NEW YORK — New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge, speaking to reporters Friday, expressed frustration at not finalizing a long-term contract extension with the club with which he wants to spend the rest of his major league career.
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9:21 PM ET Jeff Borzello Close ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Paul Biancardi Close Basketball Recruiting National Recruiting Director for ESPN.com 18 years of coaching experience at Division I level Former Horizon League coach of the year at Wright State Elite junior Mackenzie Mgbako announced
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7:36 PM ET Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Ja Morant could return to the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday night against the New Orleans Pelicans after missing just more than two weeks because of a sore right knee. Morant’s status against New Orleans was upgraded to questionable on the injury report Friday afternoon. If the All-Star
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7:58 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Rookie Evan Mobley was back in the starting lineup for the Cleveland Cavaliers for Friday’s key game against the Brooklyn Nets. Mobley missed the previous five games with a sprained left ankle and the Cavaliers lost four of them without their big man. Mobley is a
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6:40 PM ET Minnesota State senior goalie Dryden McKay was named the winner of the Hobey Baker Award on Friday as the top player in NCAA Division I men’s hockey. McKay set NCAA records with 37 wins and 34 shutouts this season for a Mavericks team that finished 38-4 and is set to face Denver
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6:39 PM ET NEW YORK — Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson felt the pressure of coming into a new market and making a strong first impression. “Everybody feels that,” Donaldson said. “You gotta trust your process and how you go about your business.” The moment for Donaldson to really trust his process came in the
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7:08 PM ET CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson head football coach Dabo Swinney said this week he thinks a lack of uniformity will lead to a complete restructuring in college athletics at some point. In particular, he sees the larger, more prominent Power 5 schools forming their own division in football. “I think there’s going to
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6:24 PM ET Louisiana Tech star Kenneth Lofton Jr. entered the transfer portal on Friday afternoon, immediately becoming one of the best available transfers. A 6-foot-7, 275-pound power forward from Texas, Lofton Jr. was one of the most productive players in the country this past season. He averaged 16.5 points, 10.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists,
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6:01 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua will meet July 23 in a rematch for the unified heavyweight championship, likely in Saudi Arabia, sources told ESPN. When they met in September in London, Joshua entered with three heavyweight titles but Usyk wrested the championship in dominant fashion. The former undisputed cruiserweight champion
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5:50 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens re-signed middle linebacker Josh Bynes to a one-year deal, the team announced Friday, one week after missing out on Bobby Wagner. Bynes, 32, started 12 games last season for the Ravens, recording 76 tackles and two sacks. Undrafted in 2011, Bynes has totaled 553 tackles
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4:09 PM ET A heavyweight bout between Jairzinho Rozenstruik and Marcin Tybura has been removed from the UFC 273 card because of an illness by Tybura, the UFC announced Friday. Tybura was the second-to-last fighter to weigh in Friday morning, but he was well within the 266-pound, nontitle heavyweight limit, weighing 253 pounds. The UFC
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9:24 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Alexander Volkanovski‘s latest featherweight title defense is official. Volkanovski and Chan Sung Jung, better known as “The Korean Zombie,” both weighed in Friday at 144.5 pounds. Volkanovski will defend his UFC featherweight belt against Jung in the main event of UFC 273 on Saturday at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena.
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8:17 AM ET Teams from Liga MX, Major League Soccer (MLS) and the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) and others have formed a coalition to eliminate anti-gay abuse from soccer, the group said on Friday. Play Proud United will bring together Angel City FC, Chicago Fire, Philadelphia Union, San Diego Wave FC and Tigres to
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