Month: December 2022

8:44 AM ET Alaina GetzenbergESPN Wide receiver Cole Beasley is expected to come out of retirement to sign with the Buffalo Bills‘ practice squad, a source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. He helps fill a need at slot receiver for the Bills with production low at the position this season. Beasley, 33, spent two weeks on
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8:00 AM ET The NBA is renaming its annual regular-season MVP award after Michael Jordan, the player who topped ESPN’s ranking of the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team named last season. The league unveiled the newly designed Michael Jordan Trophy on Tuesday, along with five other reimagined trophies named after league pioneers that will now be
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8:59 AM ET ESPN News Services Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach died Monday night after complications related to a heart condition, the school announced. He was 61. Leach suffered what the university initially described, in a news release, as a “personal health issue” at his home in Starkville on Sunday, which required him to
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6:30 AM ET It wasn’t just any year in college football. We’re going to have a College Football Playoff for the first time that doesn’t include Alabama or Clemson and one that does include TCU. There are similar surprises on ESPN’s 2022 All-America team. Some of the players on everybody’s radar when the season began
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2:52 AM ET CHATSWORTH, Calif. — Mere minutes into Monday’s nationally-televised event, Bronny James cocked the ball behind his head and zoomed to the hoop for a fast-break dunk that he hammered home. The throwdown was an appropriate throwback to how his father, LeBron James, first burst onto the scene with his signature “Akron hammer”
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1:11 AM ET ESPN News Services PORTLAND, Ore. — Damian Lillard tied his own regular-season franchise record by making 11 3-pointers and finished with 38 points, leading the Portland Trail Blazers over the Minnesota Timberwolves 133-112 on Monday night. Lillard shot 11-for-17 from long range and didn’t play in the fourth quarter. The Blazers never
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12:04 AM ET ESPN News Services MONTREAL, Quebec — Flames defenseman Chris Tanev was helped off the ice after taking a slap shot to the head in the second period of Calgary’s 2-1 shootout loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Monday. During a 5-on-3 penalty kill, Tanev attempted to block a slap shot from Canadiens
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3:24 PM ET FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons have officially made a move at quarterback, naming rookie Desmond Ridder the starter for the rest of the season, replacing veteran Marcus Mariota. “It was a performance-based decision,” Falcons coach Arthur Smith said Monday. “Obviously where our circumstances are, we talked last time about trying
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3:43 PM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The New York Jets expect to have banged-up quarterback Mike White for their critical game Sunday against the Detroit Lions, but they’re not so sure about star defensive tackle Quinnen Williams, who is considered 50-50 with a calf injury. White has undergone a battery of tests for a
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8:34 PM ET GLENDALE, Ariz. — Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray was carted off the field with a noncontact knee injury less than 90 seconds into Monday night’s game against the New England Patriots. He is scheduled to undergo further testing on Tuesday, including an MRI, but a source told ESPN there is “little doubt
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