Month: December 2022

12:27 PM ET ESPN News Services Three-time Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander has agreed to a two-year, $86 million deal with the New York Mets, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Monday. The deal includes a vesting third-year option, a source told ESPN. Verlander, who turns 40 in February, returned from Tommy John surgery
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11:19 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers waived quarterback Baker Mayfield on Monday. Carolina (4-8) is still in contention in the weak NFC South and will go the rest of the season with Sam Darnold and PJ Walker at quarterback, with Darnold starting Sunday’s road game against the Seattle Seahawks. The decision to
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12:31 PM GMT Wales’ former head coach Warren Gatland has been reappointed for the 2023 season as Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) part ways with Wayne Pivac. WRU CEO Steve Phillips confirmed on Monday that Gatland — who served as Wales’ longest standing coach when he left in 2019 after 12 years in charge — will
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12:55 PM ET ESPN staff College football‘s new transfer portal window officially opened Monday, and while some players announced their plans to leave their schools prior to that, things are really off and running now. Last year, more than 3,000 FBS players entered the portal, which was open year-round. Quarterbacks Caleb Williams (USC), Bo Nix
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11:19 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Pittsburgh starting quarterback Kedon Slovis intends to enter the NCAA transfer portal, sources told ESPN on Monday. Slovis played three seasons at USC Trojans before transferring to Pitt in February and has amassed 9,973 passing yards and 68 touchdowns over those four years. He’ll have one season of eligibility remaining
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10:50 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys‘ secondary took a major hit in the third quarter of their 54-19 win against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday night, when cornerback Anthony Brown suffered what the team believes is a torn left Achilles. “I’m sick for him,” owner and general manager Jerry Jones said. “He’s
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10:04 AM ET ESPN News Services Nick Bollettieri, the Hall of Fame tennis coach who worked with some of the sport’s biggest stars, including Andre Agassi and Monica Seles, and founded an academy that revolutionized the development of young athletes, has died. He was 91. Bollettieri died Sunday night at home in Florida after a
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9:56 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said Monday that it would be too difficult to make major scheme-based changes to the team’s struggling offense at this point of the season. “I think we need to do what we’re doing better. I don’t think at this point making a
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8:58 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN NC State quarterback Devin Leary intends to enter the NCAA transfer portal, a source told ESPN. Leary will have one year of eligibility remaining after spending five years at NC State. His production over the past four seasons — 6,807 yards and 62 touchdowns — will make him one of
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9:19 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim “There’s an enticing aura of unpredictability surrounding the main event of UFC 282.” That was the opening line in my original draft of this story. I wrote it shortly before Thanksgiving, figuring I’d smartly get a jump on assessing the final Octagon pay-per-view of the year. Who knew the unpredictability
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9:08 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent DOHA, Qatar — Portugal coach Fernando Santos blasted Cristiano Ronaldo‘s reaction to being substituted in Friday’s World Cup game against South Korea and refused to confirm whether the striker will play against Switzerland on Tuesday. Ronaldo looked visibly frustrated when he was replaced in the 65th minute of the 2-1
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8:52 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Louisville coach Scott Satterfield has been hired to become the next football coach at Cincinnati, the school announced Monday. Terms of Satterfield’s contract were not announced but a source told ESPN that Satterfield received a six-year deal. The hire is a compelling one regionally, as the schools are nearly 100
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