Month: August 2022

9:36 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN RENTON, Wash. — Seattle Seahawks quarterback Drew Lock has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss Thursday’s second preseason game, the team announced Tuesday. The news came roughly 90 minutes after coach Pete Carroll declared that while Geno Smith was still leading Seattle’s quarterback competition, Lock would start Thursday against
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8:37 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com MASON, Ohio — Serena Williams lost in the opening-round match of the penultimate tournament of her career Tuesday, but was still given a hero’s send-off following the 6-4, 6-0 defeat to Emma Raducanu at the Western & Southern Open. Moments after losing, the 2021 US Open champion was given a
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2:37 PM ET Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — The Oakland Athletics released veteran outfielder Stephen Piscotty on Tuesday and cleared the way for top prospect Shea Langeliers to gain key experience down the stretch for the last-place team in the AL West. Langeliers, a 24-year-old catcher and left fielder selected ninth overall in the 2019
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7:43 PM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Cody Bellinger, the 2019 NL MVP whose production has fallen off dramatically since, was benched by the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Bellinger might sit out the final three games of the team’s series at Milwaukee. “I just wanted to give him a
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6:37 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots placed veteran cornerback Malcolm Butler on injured reserve Tuesday, ending his season and comeback attempt with the franchise where he became a Super Bowl hero seven years ago. Butler, 32, suffered a hip injury, a source said. Butler had started in the Patriots’ preseason opener
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5:56 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Infielder/outfielder Enrique Hernandez returned to the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday after a more than a two-month absence as he was activated from the 15-day injured list. Hernandez had been out with June 8 with a strained right hip flexor. He revealed before Boston’s game with Pittsburgh that
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5:52 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres have replaced a planned Fernando Tatis Jr. bobblehead night with a Juan Soto T-shirt giveaway after the superstar shortstop was banned 80 games Friday following a positive test for a performance-enhancing drug. Tatis, a 23-year-old sensation and one of the brightest stars in
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4:39 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The expiration date on Aaron Rodgers‘ patience with the Green Bay Packers‘ young pass-catchers must have read Aug. 16. For the first time since losing Davante Adams this offseason, Rodgers expressed frustration with the group. “The young guys, especially young receivers, we’ve got to be way more consistent,”
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4:57 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The New York Mets are calling up third baseman Brett Baty, one of the top prospects in baseball, to help stem the tide of injuries to their infield in recent days, sources
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4:25 PM ET Associated Press BURNABY, British Columbia — Simon Fraser will move four of its home football games across the border to Blaine, Washington, for the upcoming season due to COVID-19 entry requirements to Canada, the school announced Tuesday. Simon Fraser plays at the Division II level and is the only Canadian school that
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3:17 PM ET ESPN News Services New York Mets right-hander Carlos Carrasco has been diagnosed with a low-grade left oblique strain and could miss three to four weeks, the team said Tuesday. Carrasco had an MRI on Tuesday morning after he left Monday’s loss to the Atlanta Braves with left side tightness. Carrasco, 35, allowed
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