Month: August 2022

11:38 AM ET Tennessee Volunteers linebacker William Mohan has been suspended indefinitely after his arrest Sunday on a felony domestic aggravated assault charge, the school announced Tuesday. “We are aware of the recent arrest of football student-athlete William Mohan,” a spokesperson from the Tennessee athletics department said in a statement. “He was immediately suspended indefinitely
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12:44 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The surprise wasn’t that Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur ultimately decided not to play Aaron Rodgers and the rest of the key starters in Thursday’s preseason finale at Kansas City; it was that he was actually considering it. Rodgers has not played in a preseason game since
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12:41 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN DETROIT, Mich. — Lions rookie receiver Jameson Williams won’t be available for at least the first four weeks of the 2022 season. The team announced Tuesday that they have place him on the reserve/non-football injury list as they trimmed down to the 80-player limit by Tuesday’s deadline. Players on the
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11:42 AM ET Nick Saban is once again the highest-paid football coach at a public university. Alabama’s board of trustees approved a one-year extension and a raise for Saban during a meeting on Tuesday. The amended deal runs through February 2030 and will pay him an average of $11.7 million per year. The raise edges
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11:43 AM ET The Washington Commanders moved defensive end Chase Young to the reserve/physically unable to perform list Tuesday, meaning he will miss at least the first four games of the 2022 NFL season. By moving Young to the reserve/PUP list he does not count against the Commanders’ 80-man roster. NFL teams must trim down
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11:16 AM ET Kevin Durant is staying in Brooklyn, according to a statement from Nets general manager Sean Marks. “[Coach] Steve Nash and I, together with [governors] Joe Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai, met with Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman in Los Angeles yesterday,” Marks said in a statement. “We have agreed to move forward
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7:06 AM ET Alyssa RoenigkESPN Close Alyssa Roenigk is a senior writer for ESPN whose assignments have taken her to six continents and caused her to commit countless acts of recklessness. (Follow @alyroe on Twitter). COCO GAUFF IS at a crossroads. She’s sitting in the passenger seat of her first car while her dad, Corey,
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9:09 AM ET ASHBURN, Va. — The Washington Commanders will retire quarterback Sonny Jurgensen’s No. 9, making him the fourth player in franchise history to earn that honor. Jurgensen, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1983, also served as an analyst on the team’s radio broadcast from 1981 to 2019 and was
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8:32 AM ET High-profile quarterbacks top the odds to win the Heisman Trophy entering the college football season, but an Alabama defender is attracting plenty of interest from bettors at sportsbooks around the nation. Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud, at +200, is the consensus favorite to win the Heisman, followed by last year’s winner, Alabama
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8:27 AM ET Cincinnati Bengals star safety Jessie Bates III returned to the team facility Tuesday after missing training camp and intends to sign his franchise tender, a source confirmed to ESPN. Bates was unable to reach a long-term extension this offseason with the Bengals, who placed the $12.911 million franchise tag on the fifth-year
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8:12 AM BST Quade Cooper is backing dumped playmaker James O’Connor to regain form and force his way back into the Wallabies’ ranks in time for next year’s Rugby World Cup. Cooper, who has been sidelined since rupturing an Achilles tendon in Australia’s Rugby Championship clash with Argentina earlier this month, has been joined on
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