Month: January 2023

4:28 PM ET DJ Bien-AimeESPN HOUSTON — The Texans have hired San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans as their new head coach, it was announced Tuesday. The deal is for six years, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Ryans becomes the franchise’s sixth full-time coach. The Texans, meanwhile, become the first team in NFL history
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5:09 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tampa Bay Rays infielder Yandy Díaz agreed to a $24 million, three-year contract on Tuesday that avoided a salary arbitration hearing. Díaz’s agreement could be worth $36 million over four seasons. The 31-year old will receive $6 million this season, $8 million in 2024 and $10
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4:38 PM ET Associated Press NASCAR has essentially banned the “Hail Melon” video-game move driver Ross Chastain used at Martinsville Speedway to race his way into the championship finale. Chastain last year mashed the gas and deliberately smashed into the wall so that the energy would speed his car past his rivals. The move advanced
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4:34 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Batting champion Jeff McNeil and the New York Mets finalized a $50 million, four-year contract Tuesday that avoided a salary arbitration hearing. The move was the latest by the high-spending Mets. who added pitcher Justin Verlander and David Robertson, catcher Omar Narváez and outfielder Tommy Pham, and
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4:38 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by nine former University of Minnesota football players who were accused of sexual assault in 2016 in a case that roiled the school’s football program. The lawsuit against the school claimed that the players faced emotional distress and financial damage
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4:20 PM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Denver Broncos owner and CEO Greg Penner said at the start of the team’s coaching search he wanted a “strong leader for this organization,” and Tuesday sources told ESPN the Broncos had agreed to a trade with the New Orleans Saints to make Sean Payton the 19th head coach
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2:24 PM ET I’m not going to waste your time. Because this is your time. Your fantasy time. Even better: your fantasy basketball time. And right now… is a pivotal time in your season. The time to make your playoff push. The time for you to take some extra time to look, plan… then act.
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2:49 PM ET Associated Press Paolo Banchero‘s rookie season will include a trip to NBA All-Star Weekend. The Orlando Magic forward and No. 1 pick in last year’s draft was announced Tuesday as a participant in this year’s Rising Stars Game, to be held in Salt Lake City on Feb. 17, two nights before the
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2:15 PM ET NEW YORK — LeBron James will return to the lineup Tuesday night against the New York Knicks, sources told ESPN, making his first appearance at Madison Square Garden in three years. James sat out of the Los Angeles Lakers‘ 121-104 loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Monday because of “significant soreness” in
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12:39 PM GMT Wales coach Warren Gatland has included lock Alun Wyn Jones in his starting 15 to face Ireland in their Six Nations opener at the Principality Stadium on Saturday, having opted for experience in his first selection since returning to the role. Jones is the most capped international in rugby history with 155
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1:14 PM ET Former All-Star center fielder Dexter Fowler is retiring after 14 years in the big leagues, according to a social media post by him. “It’s here. I’m hanging up my cleats,” Fowler wrote Tuesday. Fowler, 36, played for five different teams in his career, bursting onto the national scene in 2015 and 2016
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12:49 PM ET Meyers Leonard, a former first-round NBA draft pick who hasn’t played in the league since 2021 after using an antisemitic slur during a video game livestream, told ESPN there are “no excuses” for what he did, but that he expects to play in the NBA again. “I feel like I’m living in
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12:54 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN MOBILE, Ala. — Heisman Trophy runner-up Max Duggan was among the NFL prospects to report on Monday after accepting his invitation to the Senior Bowl. The TCU quarterback declared for the NFL draft after a near-storybook ending to his college career, where he went from losing his starting job to
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