Month: October 2022

12:16 PM ET The Cincinnati Bengals are optimistic about linebacker Logan Wilson‘s recent injury, sources tell ESPN. According to NFL insider Jeremy Fowler, Wilson’s right shoulder injury is not as severe as the one he suffered last season. Wilson could be back in the next two to five weeks, a team source told Fowler. During
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12:04 PM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN MIAMI — Despite not playing football for nearly two weeks, Tua Tagovailoa impressed Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel with his focus when he returned to the practice field last week. Tagovailoa suffered a concussion on Sept. 29 against the Cincinnati Bengals and missed the Dolphins’ next two games. McDaniel said
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12:29 PM ET NEW YORK — Brooklyn Nets swingman Ben Simmons couldn’t hold back his excitement as he prepared to play in his first regular-season NBA game in almost a year and a half. “Ready to go,” Simmons said after Wednesday’s shootaround, in advance of the Nets’ season opener against the New Orleans Pelicans. “Very
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12:43 PM ET Kentucky big man Oscar Tshiebwe, last season’s consensus National Player of the Year, has bounced back quicker than expected from a recent knee procedure but will not participate in an exhibition this weekend, coach John Calipari told reporters Wednesday. Calipari said he saw Tshiebwe around the basketball facility after the procedure and
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12:22 PM ET Associated Press Bubba Wallace and Christopher Bell shared a flight home from Las Vegas, and Wallace apologized during the trip to his fellow Toyota teammate for the incident that crippled Bell’s championship chances. Bell said Wallace also apologized to the entire Toyota group in the Monday competition meeting. Wallace has been suspended
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12:31 AM ET Two of the top women’s flyweight fighters in the world will meet in Brazil. Former UFC women’s strawweight champion Jessica Andrade will face Lauren Murphy at UFC 283 on Jan. 21 in Rio de Janeiro, sources confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. MMA Fighting first reported the news. Andrade is ranked No. 9
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8:23 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Paris Saint-Germain forward Neymar has taken a swipe at the Ballon d’Or after Brazil teammate Vinicius Jr was only ranked eighth at Monday’s gala in Paris. Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema won the prize for the first time in his career, with Bayern Munich‘s Sadio Mane and Manchester
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9:58 AM BST Players need to have a say in the future of Premiership rugby after Wasps and Worcester Warriors went into administration, Saracens and England hooker Jamie George said on Tuesday. Wasps made 167 players and staff redundant after going into administration on Monday, while Worcester went into administration last month. England’s Rugby Football
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7:45 AM ET Claressa Shields is back on top in the ESPN women’s pound-for-pound rankings after a dominant victory over Savannah Marshall. With the victory, Shields (13-0, 2 KOs), became the undisputed middleweight champion for the second time. She is the first fighter, male or female, to be undisputed in the same division twice. She’s
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9:10 AM ET Joe DeMartinoESPN Editor Close General Editor Joined ESPN in 2006 Massachusetts native, Northwestern graduate Aaron Nola and Austin Nola are about to make postseason history. The two brothers — Aaron, a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, and Austin, the primary catcher for the San Diego Padres — will face off against one
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