Month: November 2022

4:59 PM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball COSTA MESA, Calif. — The Los Angeles Chargers exited a bye week expecting to be healthier than when they entered it. No such luck. The Bolts (4-3)
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4:42 PM ET Associated Press Hockey Canada finds itself “at a crossroads” that requires reimagined leadership coupled with more oversight and transparency, according to a third-party governance review released Friday. The 221-page document follows an independent probe led by former Supreme Court justice Thomas Cromwell, and comes at a crucial time for the scandal-plagued national
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12:51 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Jimmie Johnson‘s NASCAR retirement and IndyCar experiment lasted all of two seasons. The seven-time NASCAR champion is returning in 2023 to the series that made him a global motorsports star as the part-owner of Petty GMS. He’ll also enter about five Cup races. Johnson announced that his
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3:03 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz was stopped in the Paris Masters quarterfinals by unseeded Holger Rune of Denmark on Friday. In a match pitting 19-year-old former junior doubles partners, Rune was leading 6-3, 6-6 and 3-1 in the tiebreaker when the US Open champion Alcaraz retired, a few minutes after
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3:34 PM ET CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Bengals are dealing with long- and short-term injuries at cornerback heading into Sunday’s game against the Carolina Panthers. Starting outside cornerback Chidobe Awuzie is out for the year with a torn ACL, the team confirmed earlier this week. Mike Hilton, Cincinnati’s top inside cornerback, will be out for
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1:52 PM ET Mitchell Miller, a prospect whose draft rights were relinquished after it publicly surfaced that he and a classmate were convicted of assaulting and bullying a developmentally disabled classmate, signed an entry-level contract Friday with the Boston Bruins. The 20-year-old defenseman was a fourth-round selection of the Arizona Coyotes in 2020. Shortly after
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1:38 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — All-Pro defensive lineman and two-time Washington Super Bowl champion Dave Butz has died. He was 72. A spokesperson for the Washington Commanders confirmed that Butz’s family informed the team about his death Friday. It was not immediately known where Butz died or the cause of his death. Butz
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1:36 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be without Pro Bowl defensive back Antoine Winfield Jr., tight end Cam Brate, left guard Luke Goedeke and wide receiver Russell Gage when they host the Los Angeles Rams Sunday, coach Todd Bowles said Friday. Winfield Jr., one of the Bucs’ top defensive playmakers,
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12:53 PM ET Less than a month after an Alabama football player appeared to strike a fan who stormed the field at Tennessee, the SEC announced Friday that it is forming a working group to address fans’ access to playing fields and courts after games. The event-security working group will review and update field access
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11:56 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Buffalo’s Reid Ferguson and Miami’s Blake Ferguson — brothers and fellow long snappers — are among the 32 team nominees for the NFL’s Salute to Service award this year. The Salute to Service award, presented by the league and USAA, recognizes NFL players, coaches, staff and alumni
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11:57 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Boston College quarterback Phil Jurkovec will miss Friday night’s game against Duke (7 ET, ESPN2) because of a knee injury, sources told ESPN. Jurkovec suffered the injury in last week’s loss to UConn and will be out for an undetermined period of time. Jurkovec will be replaced by redshirt freshman
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11:19 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — New York Jets wide receiver Corey Davis will sit out with a knee injury for the second consecutive week, leaving quarterback Zach Wilson without one of his top targets against the NFL’s top-ranked scoring defense. Wilson, who faces the Buffalo Bills (6-1) on Sunday at MetLife Stadium, is
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12:01 PM ET WASHINGTON — Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant said the fallout from Kyrie Irving‘s social media posts that centered on an anti-Semitic book and movie was an “unfortunate situation” that “just sucks all around for everybody and hopefully we can move past it.” Irving was suspended by the Nets on Thursday for “no
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