Month: April 2022

12:56 AM ET The Chicago White Sox and right-hander Johnny Cueto are in agreement on a minor league contract. The deal is worth up to $4.2 million, prorated for days spent in the big leagues, a source told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Cueto, 36, started 21 games for the San Francisco Giants last season and went
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11:56 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — Entering Monday, Kansas had trailed at halftime just once in this year’s NCAA tournament. It was in the Elite Eight against Miami, when the Jayhawks turned a six-point halftime deficit into a 26-point win. They outscored the Hurricanes 47-15 in the final 20 minutes of that game. “I told
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Mar 30, 2022 Mike ClayESPN Writer Close Fantasy football, NFL analyst for ESPN.com Member of Pro Football Writers of America Founding director of Pro Football Focus Fantasy 2013 FSTA award winner for most accurate preseason rankings Mike Clay’s 2022 fantasy football rankings by position and top 300 will be updated throughout the preseason as NFL
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10:04 PM ET Auston Matthews owns a piece of Toronto Maple Leafs history, hitting the 54-goal mark Monday night to tie Rick Vaive’s franchise goal-scoring record. The 24-year-old Matthews scored a hat trick against the host Tampa Bay Lightning in the Maple Leafs’ 6-2 victory to pull even with Vaive, whose record has stood for
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10:16 PM ET Associated Press LAKELAND, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers acquired outfielder Austin Meadows in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night. Detroit sent infielder Isaac Paredes and a competitive balance round B pick in the 2022 amateur draft to Tampa Bay for Meadows, who hit .234 with 27 homers and
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9:40 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN All-Pro linebacker Bobby Wagner says he has “no hatred” toward the Seattle Seahawks but still believes they should have handled his release differently. And he considers the chance to play his old team twice a year a nice bonus to signing with the Los Angeles Rams, even if it wasn’t
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9:11 PM ET The Washington Commanders on Monday strongly denied a former team employee’s allegation to Congress that they withheld ticket revenue from visiting teams, saying that amounted to perjury. But the attorney for that former employee said the team’s statement defamed him. The former employee, Jason Friedman, testified before some members of the House
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8:01 PM ET ESPN News Services The NBA on Monday fined Cleveland Cavaliers coach J.B. Bickerstaff $15,000 after he was highly critical of the officiating in Sunday night’s 112-108 home loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. “That game was taken from us,” Bickerstaff said Sunday night. “We deserved to win it.” Bickerstaff was upset with what
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6:32 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Bryson DeChambeau walked down the third fairway at Augusta National during his Sunday practice round for the 86th Masters and saw Tiger Woods strolling up 17. The two acknowledged each other, with mock air high-fives from a distance, then went on about their preparation. As for interaction with one
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7:07 PM ET Baylor athletic director Mack Rhoades has received a new 10-year contract designed so he can complete his career at the school. The school’s board of regents approved the new agreement Monday for Rhoades, 56, who has led Baylor’s athletic department since July 2016. Rhoades also had received a 10-year contract with the
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7:24 PM ET Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll called out NFL owners during the league’s meetings last week in Florida, saying the hiring of minority candidates won’t improve until owners accept that there are candidates out there different than themselves, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Carroll spoke for about 10 minutes during a meeting
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7:37 PM ET Free-agent guard Luca Vildoza is expected to finalize a deal with the Milwaukee Bucks that’ll take him through the 2022-23 season, sources told ESPN. Vildoza — MVP of the 2020 Spanish ACB League finals — has fully recovered from foot surgery and will be activated for the Bucks in the playoffs, sources
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7:38 PM ET Morehead State star Johni Broome entered the transfer portal on Monday, immediately becoming one of the top-five transfers this spring. Broome, a 6-foot-10 sophomore center from Florida, was a first-team All-Ohio Valley Conference selection in each of the past two seasons. He averaged 16.8 points, 10.5 rebounds and 3.9 blocks this past
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6:48 PM ET Associated Press JUPITER, Fla. — Gold Glove-winning outfielder Harrison Bader and the St. Louis Cardinals agreed to a $10.4 million, two-year contract and avoided salary arbitration. Bader, 27, gets a $1 million signing bonus as part of the deal announced Sunday and salaries of $4.7 million in each of the next two
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4:44 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Outfielder/first baseman Danny Santana, pitcher Richard Rodríguez and infielder José Rondón were suspended for 80 games each on Monday in the first discipline since the major league drug testing program resumed March 11 after a 99-day suspension during the lockout. The three, all free agents, tested positive
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