Month: January 2023

12:51 PM ET Northwestern is hiring North Dakota State defensive coordinator David Braun to the same position, sources told ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg. Braun, who had been the Bison’s defensive coordinator since 2019, replaces Jim O’Neil, who spent the past two seasons in Evanston. The Wildcats ended the 2022 season on an 11-game losing streak following
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11:49 AM ET FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — For the third time in his career, Atlanta Falcons defensive coordinator Dean Pees has announced his retirement. Falcons players said Pees told the team in a meeting and then spoke to the defense separately to express his appreciation for what they had done over the past season, and
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10:30 AM ET Gareth Bale has announced his retirement from professional football at the age of 33. Bale made the surprise announcement on Monday in a statement posted on his social media channels. It brings an end to a career that saw Bale excel for Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Real Madrid and LAFC, while also establishing
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10:34 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Star Stanford junior tight end Ben Yurosek, who earned second-team all-league honors in 2022, is returning to school, according to an ESPN source. Yurosek intends to come back to Stanford in 2023, where he’ll be one of the focal points of the Stanford offense. The news is a boon to
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12:05 PM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — The Arizona Cardinals have fired head coach Kliff Kingsbury 10 months after signing him to a contract extension through the 2027 season. The team also announced that general manager Steve Keim has decided to “step away from his position in order to focus on his health.” Like Kingsbury, Keim
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11:55 AM ET Brooklyn Nets star forward Kevin Durant will miss at least two weeks after being diagnosed with an isolated MCL sprain of his right knee, the team announced Monday. Durant underwent an MRI, which confirmed the nature of his injury. The Nets said he will be reevaluated in two weeks. He sustained the
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12:14 PM ET Associated Press Houston is back at No. 1 in the Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for the second time this season, while Kansas State continued its unexpectedly strong start by leaping from unranked to the verge of the top 10. The Cougars received 34 of 60 first-place votes in
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10:24 AM ET Former Atlanta Braves general manager John Coppolella has been reinstated by Major League Baseball, more than five years after he was given a lifetime ban by commissioner Rob Manfred. Coppolella, 44, was kicked out of the sport in the fall of 2017 after it was determined that he had grossly violated rules
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10:54 AM GMT Owen Farrell has been cited for a high tackle in Friday’s Premiership match between Saracens and Gloucester and if he is found guilty of foul play will face a ban that could rule him out of England’s Six Nations game against Scotland on Feb. 4. Farrell’s shoulder made contact with the jaw
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10:10 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Bill Belichick, who is the NFL’s longest-tenured coach and turns 71 in April, said Monday that he plans to return for his 24th season as New England Patriots coach in 2023. The Patriots had their season end Sunday in a 35-23 loss to the Buffalo Bills. After declaring that
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11:11 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — For the second time this season, Green Bay Packers rookie linebacker Quay Walker has been ejected for unsportsmanlike conduct. Walker was thrown out of Sunday night’s regular-season finale with 7:24 left after he shoved a member of the Detroit Lions‘ medical staff who was tending to injured running
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8:45 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Michigan’s Luke Schoonmaker, one of the top tight ends in college football, told ESPN that he’s leaving school to declare for the 2023 NFL draft. Schoonmaker is a fifth-year senior with one year of eligibility remaining. Multiple NFL scouts told ESPN that he projects as a second-round pick, as his
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