Month: July 2022

4:46 PM ET ESPN News Services ANAHEIM, Calif. — Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout was placed on the 10-day injured list Monday with left rib cage inflammation, the team announced. Scratched from the Angels’ lineup moments before the start of Saturday night’s 7-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, their final game before the
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8:37 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The McGwire family is set to see the other side of things in one of baseball’s best rivalries. Mason McGwire, son of 12-time All-Star slugger Mark, was selected in the eighth round of baseball’s amateur draft by the Chicago Cubs on Monday. 1 Related Mark spent five
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10:52 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” LOS ANGELES — If Juan Soto gets traded, the team that acquires him won’t just be getting one of the best hitters in baseball. It will get the reigning Home Run Derby
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9:07 PM ET The Senate Judiciary Committee asked Major League Baseball and commissioner Rob Manfred to explain the potential impact of stripping away the league’s antitrust exemption on the minor leagues. Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois and Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa sent the letter on Monday and asked for a response from
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9:14 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Talks about a partnership between the Big 12 and the Pac-12, which had been discussed extensively the past two weeks, have officially ended, sources told ESPN. Officials from the Big 12 told Pac-12 officials on Monday that they’re no longer interested in exploring the partnership, sources said. A Big 12
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7:32 PM ET Sophie Lawson ROTHERHAM, England — Despite France having a deeper footballing pedigree (and a population over 174 times bigger) than Iceland, the play between them in Monday’s 1-1 draw was surprisingly comparable. The approach of the two teams was similar, and their failings aligned on the night at New York Stadium, yet
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7:24 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Eddie Olczyk is leaving the Chicago Blackhawks after 16 years as a color commentator on their television broadcasts. He’s expected to work Seattle Kraken games next season, joining the team his brother Ricky works for as an assistant general manager. “For 16 seasons, we were fortunate to have
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7:08 PM ET Associated Press Russia’s highest-ranked women’s tennis player, Daria Kasatkina, said in a video interview released Monday that she is dating a woman. The French Open semifinalist’s comments come as the Russian parliament discusses tightening already stringent restrictions on public discussions of LGBTQ relationships. In the interview on YouTube with Russian blogger Vitya
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5:52 PM ET The Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational Series is set to add another big name — this one outside the playing ropes. David Feherty is leaving NBC and is expected to join the breakaway tour as an analyst for eight to 10 tournaments annually, the New York Post reported Monday, citing sources. Feherty, known
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7:25 PM ET A week after announcing a $200 million facilities project, the Texas Tech football team got another boost Monday when the Matador Club, a local collective, told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that it will sign 100 Red Raiders players to one-year, $25,000 NIL contracts. The deal will be for all 85 scholarship players plus
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5:45 PM ET The San Jose Sharks re-signed goaltender Kaapo Kahkonen to a two-year contract on Monday, the team announced. Kahkonen, 25, acquired last season from the Minnesota Wild, is one of three veteran goaltenders on the Sharks’ roster — including James Reimer and Adin Hill — and this contract could be a sign one
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6:37 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Pete Alonso was in the visitors’ clubhouse at Truist Park last week when an attendant made a puzzling request: Would the New York Mets slugger take a call from Atlanta Braves skipper Brian Snitker? “Why is the opposing manager calling me?” Alonso recalled thinking. He quickly found
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5:34 PM ET ESPN News Services Jackson State football coach Deion Sanders will donate half of his salary to help complete the program’s football facility renovations, he announced on Instagram. Sanders signed a four-year deal worth an average of $300,000 per year in 2020. Sanders said he wanted to up his donation to half of
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