Month: November 2022

2:55 PM ET Illinois coach Bret Bielema said Monday that junior running back Chase Brown is “trending in the right direction” ahead of the game Saturday at No. 3 Michigan. “Very positive and excited, but don’t know where we’ll be by Friday for the trip and Saturday for the game,” Bielema said. Brown left in
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3:02 PM ET Jeff Borzello Close ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Paul Biancardi Close Basketball Recruiting National Recruiting Director for ESPN.com 18 years of coaching experience at Division I level Former Horizon League coach of the year at Wright State D.J. Wagner, the No. 1-ranked
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9:00 AM ET Working the waiver wire is pivotal to succeeding in fantasy basketball. With so many games, injuries and endless shifts in rotations throughout the marathon campaign, we’ll need to source stats from free agency to maximize imaginary rosters. Create or join an ESPN Fantasy Basketball league today and draft your league any time
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12:34 PM ET Columbus Blue Jackets forward Patrik Laine will miss 3-4 weeks with a sprained ankle, the team announced Monday. Laine was hurt during Columbus’ game against the New York Islanders on Saturday. The winger logged over 22 minutes and finished his night even after a tough third-period collision with teammate Cole Sillinger. Both
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12:43 PM ET ESPN News Services Buccaneers running back Leonard Fournette is likely to be ready for Tampa Bay’s next game after its bye despite suffering a hip pointer Sunday against the Seahawks in Munich, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The Buccaneers’ next game is at the Browns in Week 12. Fournette rushed for 57
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12:10 PM ET Associated Press North Carolina didn’t have a dominating start at No. 1. The Tar Heels open their second week atop the Associated Press men’s college basketball poll with coach Hubert Davis reminding his players it will take time to find a flow like the one that carried them to last year’s NCAA
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12:05 PM ET The Buffalo Bills had 12 men on the field when they made a critical defensive play in overtime in their wild game Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings. The play occurred with 5 minutes, 17 seconds remaining in the overtime period, just after the Vikings had completed a 24-yard pass to receiver Justin
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11:00 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Quarterback Baker Mayfield will return to the starting lineup for the Carolina Panthers on Sunday after an MRI taken over the weekend revealed that PJ Walker suffered a high ankle sprain in Thursday night’s victory over the Atlanta Falcons. Sam Darnold, who lost the open competition to Mayfield for
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9:36 AM ET DOHA, Qatar — United States men’s national team coach Gregg Berhalter said that he and his team will continue to push the team’s “Be the Change” message while in Qatar, even as FIFA has told participants not to raise awareness about the host country’s treatment of migrant workers and the LGBTQIA+ community.
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10:29 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots‘ Bill Belichick, the league’s longest-tenured head coach, repeated his stance Monday that coaches should be allowed to challenge plays under two minutes. Belichick did so after being asked about a key play in the Minnesota Vikings‘ thrilling 33-30 overtime victory over the Buffalo Bills, in which
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10:33 AM ET Rueben Chinyelu, a 6-foot-11 center from the NBA Academy Africa in Senegal, told ESPN that he has committed to Washington State. “I was fortunate to be recruited by so many wonderful schools,” Chinyelu said. “Washington State stood out with their style of play and the experience the coaching staff has with African
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9:41 AM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Caroline O’Connor didn’t know what her ceiling was when she entered the sports business world, simply because there were so few examples of women who traveled her path. Turns out, she had no limit. The Miami Marlins promoted O’Connor to president of business operations on Monday, making them
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Nov 13, 2022 Just hours after a superfight was booked for the UFC 284 main event, another title fight has been added. Yair Rodriguez will fight Josh Emmett for the interim UFC featherweight title in the co-main event of the Feb. 11 card in Perth, Australia, the UFC announced Saturday night. The UFC is making
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Nov 12, 2022 UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski will officially move up in weight to challenge lightweight champion Islam Makhachev for a second title at UFC 284 on Feb. 11 in a fight that could determine the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. UFC officials announced the lightweight title fight Saturday. UFC 284 will
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