Month: January 2023

5:35 PM ET ESPN News Services KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes suffered a right ankle injury in the first quarter of a divisional playoff game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday, and he later left for the locker room with training staff before returning to action in the third quarter. Mahomes engineered
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7:49 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Charlotte point guard LaMelo Ball was ruled out of the Hornets’ game against the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday with a sore left ankle and sore right knee. Ball, the third overall draft pick of 2020, is also dealing with right wrist soreness. It’s the third time this season
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7:35 PM ET NC State star Terquavion Smith, a projected first-round NBA draft pick, was stretchered off after a scary fall in the second half of Saturday’s 80-69 loss to North Carolina. Smith suffered elbow and neck injuries, the school said, and didn’t return to the game. With 9:45 left in the second half, Smith
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5:21 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Brooke Henderson went from complete control of her game for two days to having to scratch out a good score Saturday. The result was a 3-under 69 and a 3-shot lead in the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions. Henderson was up for the fight and moved
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6:47 PM ET ESPN News Services TORONTO — Boston guard Marcus Smart and center Robert Williams both missed the second half of the Celtics’ 106-104 win at Toronto on Saturday because of injuries. Smart injured his right ankle in the final minute of the first half and had to be helped to the locker room.
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5:19 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — The Braves‘ commitment to giving Vaughn Grissom a chance to win the starting job at shortstop can’t be questioned. The Braves, who must replace Dansby Swanson, first scheduled Grissom for three offseason visits with third-base coach Ron Washington for intense fielding drills, each lasting at least one week.
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5:07 PM ET The UFC light heavyweight title will be up for grabs on Saturday night, just one month after two different contenders squared off for the same gold belt. Former champion Glover Teixeira will take on Jamahal Hill in the main event of UFC 283 in Rio de Janeiro. The winner will take home
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4:55 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Bill Schonely, the longtime Portland Trail Blazers broadcaster with a distinctive baritone who coined the phrase “Rip City,” died on Saturday. He was 93. Affectionately known as “The Schonz,” Schonely was the team’s broadcaster for its inaugural season in 1970 and held the job for some 28
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3:49 PM ET Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — Shahada Wells scored 17 points as No. 14 TCU beat No. 2 Kansas 83-60 on Saturday in one of the worst losses in Bill Self’s 20-year coaching career with the Jayhawks. It was Kansas’ second-largest loss at home under Self. The Jayhawks fell 84-59 to Texas on
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3:14 PM ET Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — An exercise rider at a Florida horse track died Saturday in a training accident, officials said. Tampa Bay Downs said Daniel Quintero, 19, died while working with horses before 7 a.m., but declined to give further details. “The entire racetrack community expresses its condolences to his family
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2:45 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Joe Joyce and Zhilei Zhang are closing in on a deal for a fight on April 15 in London, sources confirmed to ESPN. The heavyweight bout will be televised on BT Sport in the United Kingdom rather than PPV, sources said. Joyce, ESPN’s No. 6 heavyweight, scored a career-best win
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2:54 PM ET Sal Bando, a four-time All-Star third baseman for the Oakland Athletics who later played for and became general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, died of cancer Friday at the age of 78, the teams announced Saturday. Bando won three consecutive world championships as captain of the A’s from 1972 to 1974, leading
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1:02 PM ET And then there was one. With 5:33 to play in the first half of his team’s matchup against IUPUI on Saturday, Detroit Mercy star Antoine Davis passed former Portland State standout Freeman Williams to become the No. 2 scorer all-time in college basketball history with his 3,250th point and 18th of the
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