Month: November 2022

7:51 PM ET ESPN News Services DENVER — Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols Tuesday and is out for Wednesday’s game against the New York Knicks. Jokic joins second-year guard Bones Hyland in the protocols. Jokic and Hyland will be eligible to return when they are cleared under current
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6:58 PM ET Cleveland Guardians manager Terry Francona was named American League Manager of the Year on Tuesday for the third time in his career. Francona received 17 first-place votes for 112 points. Baltimore Orioles skipper Brandon Hyde came in second and Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais finished third. Dusty Baker of the Astros, Aaron
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7:18 PM ET Five-star center Baye Fall announced his commitment to Arkansas on Tuesday, giving the Razorbacks their second top-25 prospect of the class and their fifth in the last two years. Fall chose Arkansas over Auburn, Rutgers and Seton Hall. He visited each of his finalists in the fall. “It was really tough,” Fall
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5:17 PM ET DJ Bien-AimeESPN The Houston Texans claimed former Arizona Cardinals running back Eno Benjamin from the waiver wire, it was announced Tuesday. Benjamin was waived by the Cardinals on Monday after playing one snap in the team’s win against the Los Angeles Rams. The 2020 seventh-round pick had 299 yards rushing and scored
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7:40 PM ET Melbourne United big-man Isaac Humphries has shared publicly that he is gay, becoming the only openly gay player in a top-tier men’s basketball league. Humphries made the announcement on Wednesday (AEDT) via a video shared across his social media channels, which showed the moment he revealed the news to his teammates. “We,
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3:59 PM ET Charlotte has hired Michigan associate head coach Biff Poggi as its next football coach. Poggi was a longtime successful high school coach in Maryland with the Gilman School and St. Frances Academy before joining Jim Harbaugh’s staff at Michigan. He spent 19 seasons at Gilman School before taking over at St. Frances
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5:22 PM ET CHICAGO — The Bears placed running back Khalil Herbert on injured reserve Tuesday. Herbert’s 6.0 yards per rush are tied with Dallas’ Tony Pollard for highest output by a running back this season. Herbert’s 643 rushing yards on 108 carries through 10 games rank just outside the top 10 and are the
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6:47 PM ET CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — First-year Virginia football coach Tony Elliott knows there is no manual or playbook to help him deal with what his team is facing. On Sunday night, three of his players were shot and killed and two others were wounded on a charter bus after students returned to campus from
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6:37 PM ET Stephen HolderESPN INDIANAPOLIS — Colts All-Pro linebacker Shaquille Leonard underwent his second back surgery in five months on Tuesday, a procedure that is expected to officially end his frustrating season. Leonard’s agent, Malki Kawa, posted a video on Instagram showing Leonard in a hospital recovery room, offering a message directed to Colts
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6:38 PM ET Detroit Pistons center Isaiah Stewart has a sprain of his right big toe and will be re-evaluated in 2-3 weeks, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Stewart suffered the injury in Monday’s game against the Toronto Raptors, playing less than 13 minutes in the 115-111 loss. The No. 16 overall pick in the
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6:34 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN NEW ORLEANS — Memphis Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins says “there’s a good chance” that forward Jaren Jackson Jr. will make his season debut on Tuesday night against the New Orleans Pelicans. Jackson had surgery in June to repair a stress fracture in his right foot. He’s officially listed as
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3:45 PM ET The Boston Bruins have retained former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to conduct an independent review of their player-vetting process after they signed prospect Mitchell Miller and then cut ties with him two days later amid intense backlash. The Bruins announced on Tuesday that Lynch, of the law firm of Paul, Weiss,
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4:17 PM ET The Los Angeles Angels, once again in need of a starting pitcher to slot near the top of their rotation, have agreed to a three-year contract with Tyler Anderson, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The deal, valued somewhere in the neighborhood of $39 million, was struck hours before Tuesday’s deadline for players
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5:10 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Georgia Tech has lost two quarterbacks for the rest of the season with former starter Jeff Sims nursing a foot injury and No. 1 backup Zach Pyron out with a broken collarbone, interim coach Brent Key said Tuesday. Sims, the team’s starter since 2020, will spend the rest
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5:14 PM ET The Washington Commanders have a decision to make at quarterback, but coach Ron Rivera still isn’t sure when it must be made. Rivera said he’s still not sure if Carson Wentz will be activated off injured reserve this week after missing the last four games with a fractured right ring finger. It
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4:12 PM ET The WBA on Tuesday ordered what amounts to an undisputed title fight at junior lightweight between Hyun-Mi Choi and Alycia Baumgardner. The teams for Choi, the WBA champion, and Baumgardner, the mandatory challenger who has the WBO, IBF and WBC belts, have 30 days to negotiate and reach an agreement on the
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4:28 PM ET Anthony Rizzo is re-signing with the New York Yankees on a multi-year deal worth up to $51 million, a source told ESPN on Tuesday. Rizzo will make $34 million over the next two seasons plus a club option for 2025 that includes a $6 million buyout, a source told ESPN’s Jeff Passan,
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