Month: June 2022

3:07 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers added outfielder Trayce Thompson to the active roster on Tuesday after acquiring him from the Detroit Tigers for cash. Thompson returns to the Dodgers after spending parts of the 2016 and 2017 seasons with them. He hit .207 with 14 home runs and
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2:58 PM ET Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis may have canceled his planned trip to Congo because of his bad knee, but he had a visit Tuesday from one of Congo’s brightest basketball stars who briefed him on his humanitarian efforts back home. The Phoenix Suns‘ Bismack Biyombo had a private audience with
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2:31 PM ET Ton VanHaaren Ohio State got commitments from two ESPN 300 wide receivers in as many days when Brandon Inniss announced his commitment to the Buckeyes on Tuesday. Inniss is the No. 25 prospect in the class overall and the No. 4 receiver, and he made his decision only a day after Carnell
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2:31 PM ET Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski is again calling it a career. The 32-year-old Gronkowski announced his retirement Tuesday via social media. “I want to thank the whole entire first class Buccaneers organization for an amazing ride, trusting me to come back to play and help build a championship team. I
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11:43 AM ET Former Houston Rockets head coach Mike D’Antoni is set to meet with Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan on Tuesday to further discuss the franchise’s coaching job, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. D’Antoni was considered a finalist for the Hornets post before Golden State assistant Kenny Atkinson accepted the position during the NBA
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12:41 PM ET Major League Baseball is now requiring teams to “muddy” baseballs before games using the exact same technique, according to a league memo sent to all 30 teams on Tuesday and obtained by ESPN. Muddying is the process of removing gloss from new baseballs to give pitchers a better grip. It’s been used
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11:38 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN After Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum had a rough NBA Finals, Brad Stevens had a simple message for his team’s franchise player. “I just told him to go on vacation,” Stevens, Boston’s president of basketball operations, said with a smile during a videoconference call with reporters after Boston’s season ended
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11:55 AM ET Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has settled all but four of the lawsuits filed against him, attorney Tony Buzbee said in a statement Tuesday. Since March 16, 2021, 25 lawsuits have been filed against Watson, alleging sexual assault and other inappropriate behavior during massage sessions. Of those 25, one was dropped by
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11:15 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Retired tennis player David Ferrer was appointed tournament director of the Davis Cup Finals on Tuesday. The 40-year-old, a three-time Davis Cup champion with Spain who reached a career-best singles ranking of No. 3, replaces Albert Costa, who had held the position since 2019. “The Davis Cup is
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10:58 AM BST Leinster scrum-half Nick McCarthy has announced he is gay, and has thanked coaches Leo Cullen and Stuart Lancaster for their “unbelievable” support in what he said has been a difficult decision. McCarthy has 18 caps as an Ireland under-20 player and he captained the side in 2015 but said he contemplated quitting
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10:01 AM ET Associated Press The United States will play Japan and Saudi Arabia in its last two World Cup warmups. The 15th-ranked Americans will play No. 23 Japan in an exhibition on Sept. 23 at a European site that is yet to be announced, the U.S. Soccer Federation said on Tuesday. – Stream ESPN
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8:08 AM ET Four-time major champion Brooks Koepka is the latest golfer to defect from the PGA Tour to the LIV Golf Invitational Series, sources have confirmed to ESPN. Koepka, 32, is one of the highest-profile players to join the breakaway circuit, which is being funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and is fronted
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10:30 AM ET Former NBA player and Purdue Boilermakers standout Caleb Swanigan is dead at 25. The Purdue men’s basketball program said Swanigan died Monday night, but it did not provide further details. A first-round pick of the Portland Trail Blazers in 2017, the 6-foot-9 Swanigan played three years in the NBA with the Blazers
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7:57 PM ET The reigning Stanley Cup champions might be on the ropes. The Tampa Bay Lightning, winners of consecutive titles, return home, down 2-0 to the Colorado Avalanche. It’s not just the two-game deficit in the Stanley Cup Final, it’s how the Avalanche have won. Colorado jumped out to early leads in both games
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9:13 AM ET LA Clippers forward Nicolas Batum will decline his $3.3 million player option and become a free agent, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. There’s expected to be mutual interest with the Clippers and Batum on reaching a new deal in July, sources said. In his second season with the Clippers, Batum started 54
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