Month: October 2022

10:18 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles on Wednesday downplayed the attention on his upcoming coaching matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers‘ Mike Tomlin, one of the few games this season that will feature two Black head coaches. “I have a very good relationship with Tomlin,” Bowles said Wednesday when asked
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9:42 AM ET ESPN Fantasy Create or join an ESPN Fantasy Basketball league for the 2022-2023 NBA season. Sign up for free! Sometimes it takes an expert’s eye to see something before everyone else does, such as the monster rookie season Franz Wagner had in Orlando last season or Jordan Poole elevating his game like
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6:43 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Alex Bowman said Wednesday he will miss the next three NASCAR races with a concussion he suffered last month in a crash in NASCAR’s new Next Gen car. Bowman, who sat out the past two races, will miss this weekend at Las Vegas, then sit out at
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6:51 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Quarterback PJ Walker, in line to make his third NFL start Sunday against the defending Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams, summed up how Carolina Panthers players felt about the decision to fire head coach Matt Rhule and replace him with Steve Wilks. “Everybody was a little shocked,” Walker
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7:34 PM ET Associated Press Defensive players around the NFL are frustrated about roughing the passer penalties, questioning what constitutes a legal hit and wondering how far referees will go to protect quarterbacks. Two disputed calls in Week 5 — one involving Tom Brady — sparked outrage among players, coaches and fans, prompting many to
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5:23 PM ET THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — After wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. tweeted Wednesday that the contract offer the Los Angeles Rams made to him wasn’t reflective of his worth, coach Sean McVay indicated he didn’t think that would be the team’s final offer. “LA knows where I wanted to be,” Beckham tweeted. “…
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7:00 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark described recent discussions with television partners ESPN and Fox as “meaningful” as the conference looks into the possibility of striking a media rights deal almost two years before the current contract expires. “So (the conference) is not a free agent,” Yormark told
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2:46 PM BST Wasps are set to enter into administration in the coming days with the club unable to find a solution to their financial woes and have been suspended from the Premiership. The former Premiership and European champions had filed a notice in the High Court last month stating their intention to appoint an
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5:27 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — With his team still appealing $200,000 in fines and allegations from NASCAR that Stewart-Haas Racing manipulated the finish of NASCAR’s most recent playoff race, co-owner Tony Stewart opted to not discuss that Wednesday. “I’m not going to talk about it,” Stewart said. “I’m so mad at
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4:40 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Todd Martin is resigning as CEO of the International Tennis Hall of Fame after nearly a decade in the post to join Beemok Capital. Martin’s move was announced Wednesday, the same day Beemok Capital announced it had closed its acquisition of the Western & Southern Open tournament
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5:06 PM ET Associated Press Serena Williams‘ former coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, is going to work with Danish teenager Holger Rune for the rest of this season and during preparation for 2023. “We’ve had a special bond since the day we met, when he was just 13,” Mouratoglou wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. Mouratoglou began coaching
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