Month: November 2022

5:14 PM ET NEW YORK — Brooklyn Nets swingman Ben Simmons (left knee soreness) and Yuta Watanabe (right hamstring strain) will not play Wednesday against the Washington Wizards, the team announced Tuesday. Wednesday’s contest will mark the seventh game that Simmons has missed this season because of the ongoing knee problem. He left Monday’s 109-102
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4:07 PM ET Stephen HolderESPN INDIANAPOLIS — Colts interim coach Jeff Saturday, in a reversal from his postgame comments on Monday night, said Tuesday that he had regrets about the team’s handling of a late-game scenario in a 24-17 loss to the Steelers. Saturday declined to call a timeout before a key third-down play, opting
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4:03 PM ET The United States men’s national team advanced to the knockout stage of the 2022 World Cup, beating Iran 1-0 at Al Thumama Stadium on Tuesday to finish second in Group B and book a last-16 matchup against the Netherlands. Christian Pulisic turned in Sergino Dest‘s headed cross in the 38th minute to
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11:37 AM ET Tiger Woods on Tuesday said he had two additional surgeries this year and that the plantar fasciitis in his right foot that will prevent him from playing this week is related to his ongoing recovery from serious injuries suffered in a car wreck outside Los Angeles in February 2021. Woods, 46, declined
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12:57 PM ET Professional Fighters League co-founder Donn Davis says he believes a fight between two-time PFL champion Kayla Harrison and MMA legend Cris “Cyborg” Justino is actually more likely to happen in 2023 following Harrison’s stunning upset loss to Larissa Pacheco last week in the PFL lightweight finals. Harrison (15-1) was set to capture
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3:00 PM ET Associated Press Quarterbacks Caleb Williams of Southern California, C.J. Stroud of Ohio State and Hendon Hooker of Tennessee have been named finalists for the Maxwell Award as the player of the year in college football. The Maxwell finalists were announced Tuesday along with finalists for most of the other awards that will
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3:02 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Georgia Tech has targeted interim coach Brent Key as the school’s next head coach, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. The deal is expected to be finalized in the next 24 hours, sources told ESPN. Georgia Tech went 4-4 with Key as the interim coach as he took over a program
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2:10 PM ET Nate Diaz‘s time with the UFC is officially over. At least for now. The longtime UFC fighter and one of the biggest stars in MMA has officially been removed from the UFC roster, promotion officials confirmed with ESPN on Tuesday. MMA Fighting was the first to report the news. The final fight
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3:51 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Texas quarterback Hudson Card, a former ESPN top-40 recruit, intends to enter the NCAA transfer portal, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. He’s a redshirt sophomore who will have three years of eligibility remaining at his next destination. Card is expected to emerge as one of the top quarterbacks in the
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2:49 PM ET CHICAGO — The Bears placed safety Eddie Jackson on injured reserve Tuesday after he sustained a foot injury against the Jets. Jackson went down Sunday with a noncontact injury while defending quarterback Mike White’s 54-yard touchdown pass to Garrett Wilson with 5:09 remaining in the second quarter. The Bears had single-high coverage
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1:46 PM ET Northwestern has fired defensive coordinator Jim O’Neil and two other assistants following a 1-11 season that marked its worst since 1989, the school announced Tuesday. Longtime defensive line coach Marty Long and wide receivers coach Dennis Springer are also out. “Our entire football family is grateful for what these three men brought
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2:24 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — With nearly all of the more than two dozen lawsuits filed against Deshaun Watson having been settled, most of the women who accused the Cleveland quarterback of sexual misconduct have no interest in his return to Houston on Sunday and just want to move on with their lives,
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2:13 PM ET Jamal CollierESPN CHICAGO — The Chicago Bulls and head coach Billy Donovan agreed to a contract extension before the start of the 2022-23 season, the Bulls’ public relations staff announced on Tuesday afternoon. Donovan is currently in his third season as the team’s head coach, with an overall record of 86-88 with
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1:21 PM ET British tennis player Emma Raducanu was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) on Tuesday, a little more than a year after she shocked the sporting world when she became the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam. The then-18-year-old Raducanu catapulted her career to new heights when
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