Month: August 2022

Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock produced a dominant display as he won men’s mountain bike cross-country gold at the European Championships in Munich. Olympic champion Pidcock, 23, completed the 34.9km course in one hour 18 minutes nine seconds after moving clear on the fifth lap of the eight-lap race. The Ineos Grenadiers rider is the first
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11:54 AM ET Associated Press CARY, N.C. — Former major leaguer Mark DeRosa has been named Team USA manager for the 2023 World Baseball Classic. USA Baseball, based in Cary, North Carolina, announced the appointment Friday. DeRosa’s professional coaching debut puts him in charge of the defending world champions next spring. He is currently a
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12:35 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — A documentary on the 2008 U.S. men’s basketball team known as the “Redeem Team,” with executive producers including LeBron James and Dwayne Wade, will premiere on Netflix this fall. “The Redeem Team” will debut Oct. 7 on Netflix, the streaming service announced Friday. The film is Netflix’s
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11:45 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY — The best pound-for-pound fighter in the world will be back in the Octagon this weekend. Kamaru Usman and challenger Leon Edwards successfully made weight Friday morning — both at exactly 170 pounds — for their welterweight title fight in the main event of UFC 278 on Saturday at
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Britain’s Dan Bigham smashed the Hour record with a distance of 55.548km around the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland on Friday. Bigham, an aerodynamics specialist and race engineer for British cycling team Ineos Grenadiers, beat the previous record of 55.089km set by Belgium’s Victor Campenaerts in 2019. The Hour record is the longest distance cycled
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10:41 AM ET ESPN News Services Atlanta Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna was arrested early Friday morning on a DUI charge, according to Gwinnett County Jail records. Ozuna, 31, was arrested by Norcross Police and booked into the Gwinnett County Jail at 4:30 a.m. Friday. In addition to DUI, he was charged with an unsafe lane
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8:58 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Challenger Anthony Joshua on Friday weighed in at 244.5 pounds — the heaviest he’s been for a fight since June 2019 — ahead of his unified heavyweight championship rematch Saturday against Oleksandr Usyk in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) tipped the scales at 221.5 pounds, a quarter-pound heavier
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9:17 AM ET Nebraska has named Casey Thompson, a transfer from Texas, as its starting quarterback for next week’s season opener against Northwestern in Dublin, Ireland. Coach Scott Frost, speaking Thursday night on his radio show, said Thompson “will take the first rep” against Northwestern. Thompson, who transferred to Nebraska in January, started 10 games
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7:00 AM ET Like every good summer binge watch, the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship hasn’t been short on drama. Its biggest plot twist so far? The ouster of defending gold medal champion Team USA, which fell 4-2 to Czechia in Wednesday’s quarterfinal matchup. The United States had been unbeaten through preliminary tournament action, and
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7:51 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Athletes are often asked — indeed, they ask themselves — “How bad do you want it?” It’s as if desire could be quantified. Truth is, that’s an empty question that elicits mostly vacant responses. The athlete usually understands his or her role in this exchange: To make it pass as
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