Month: July 2022

7:10 PM ET Philadelphia 76ers free agent star James Harden is returning to the franchise on a new two-year, $68.6 million contract, including a player option for the 2023-24 season, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The deal guarantees Harden $33 million for next season, and the opportunity to decline his $35.6 million player option and
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7:34 AM ET Henrik Stenson will no longer serve as the European captain at the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome, with the Swedish golfer announcing Wednesday that he will join LIV Golf. In a statement posted to Twitter on Wednesday, Stenson wrote that LIV Golf officials had worked with him to ensure that he could
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7:06 PM ET Cornerback Malik Muhammad had a constant presence in his ear amplifying the virtues of the direction Texas is heading in. Muhammad paid heed to that presence — Arch Manning — and added to Steve Sarkisian’s recruiting class by committing to the Longhorns on Wednesday. “We were talking when we both had our
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7:16 PM ET The Calgary Flames are expected to trade forward Matthew Tkachuk after he told the team he will not sign a long-term extension, an NHL source confirmed to ESPN. The news was first reported by The Athletic. Tkachuk, 24, has played all six NHL seasons with Calgary, which drafted him sixth overall in
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7:19 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Major League Baseball’s Midsummer Classic remains the most-watched all-star game in the major professional sports, even though it drew record lows in viewership for the fifth time since 2015. Tuesday night’s game from Los Angeles — which the American League won 3-2 — averaged 7.51 million viewers
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7:51 PM ET ASHBURN, Va. — Former Washington Commanders safety Deshazor Everett pleaded guilty Wednesday to a reduced charge of reckless driving for his role in a December crash that killed his longtime girlfriend. Everett faces up to a year in jail, per sentencing guidelines for reckless driving in Virginia. He is scheduled to be
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6:54 PM ET ESPN News Services Portland Trail Blazers shooting guard Shaedon Sharpe, the No. 7 overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft, will not need surgery for the small labral tear in his left shoulder, the team announced Wednesday. Sharpe suffered the injury in Portland’s first NBA 2K23 Summer League game July 7, and
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5:36 PM ET Georgia coach Kirby Smart offered some of his strongest comments yet Wednesday about wanting to move the Georgia–Florida football game to the schools’ campuses rather than playing it in Jacksonville, Florida, every season. During an interview on SEC Network at SEC media days Wednesday, Smart said having the game in Jacksonville, where
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5:22 PM ET Associated Press LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — World TeamTennis, the mixed-gender league co-founded nearly a half-century ago by Billie Jean King, will not have a season in 2022 but plans to return next year. WTT announced Wednesday that it is hoping to add new teams by 2023. The expansion fee is $1 million
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5:24 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — ACC commissioner Jim Phillips opened the league’s annual kickoff event Wednesday by saying he’s exploring all available options to reduce the revenue gap with the SEC and Big Ten, but he argued the arms race in college football risks doing critical damage to the college athletics as a whole.
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5:56 PM ET Associated Press The NCAA has adequately addressed nine of 23 recommendations for creating comparable NCAA tournament experiences for men’s and women’s basketball players, according to a progress report released Wednesday. College sports’ largest governing body hired a third party to evaluate its response to a scathing report issued almost a year ago
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3:44 PM ET Longtime PGA Tour players Jason Kokrak and Charles Howell III have joined LIV Golf, the new circuit announced Wednesday. Kokrak, ranked 36th in the Official World Golf Ranking, has three victories on the PGA Tour, including the Houston Open in November. His departure had been anticipated for months; he has been an
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3:45 PM ET The San Francisco 49ers have given Jimmy Garoppolo‘s agents permission to seek a trade involving the veteran quarterback, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Garoppolo, who is recovering from offseason surgery on his throwing shoulder, has been cleared to start practicing as the Niners prepare for the start of training camp next week,
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2:16 PM ET Charles Johnson, a star wide receiver at Colorado and first-round pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers, has died at age 50. The cause of Johnson’s death, which was confirmed by Colorado, was unknown as of Wednesday afternoon. He had been working as the assistant athletic director at Heritage High School in Wake Forest,
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2:04 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Charlotte Hornets restricted free agent Miles Bridges pleaded not guilty to three felony domestic violence charges during his arraignment Wednesday morning in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Bridges has been accused of assaulting his girlfriend in front of their two children last month, and the three felony charges were
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12:46 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Tyson Fury announced his retirement in April, but it doesn’t appear the heavyweight champion’s hiatus will last long. Since Fury’s sixth-round TKO win over Dillian Whyte in April in London, “The Gypsy King” has repeatedly flip-flopped between expressing his desire to fight again and remain retired. Earlier this summer, Fury
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