Month: February 2023

2:15 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Serena Williams will be honored for her tennis achievements, business success and efforts to uplift the community at the NAACP Image Awards this weekend. The NAACP announced Thursday that Williams will receive the Jackie Robinson Sports Award during the ceremony, which will air live Saturday on BET.
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1:24 PM ET Michigan star running back Blake Corum will miss spring practice, which began this week, but is on track to return at full strength in June, coach Jim Harbaugh said Thursday. Corum was a Heisman Trophy candidate before injuring his knee Nov. 19 against Illinois. He played briefly the following week against Ohio
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7:49 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. Tommy Fury comes from a fighting family. After all, his half-brother, Tyson Fury, is a heavyweight world champion. But Fury has made his name another way, becoming a television personality and gaining fame on the U.K. reality show “Love Island.” Fury started fighting professionally at the end of 2018
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11:53 AM ET Politicians in California are hoping to give back to retired fighters. A proposal in the California Legislature would set up a pension fund for former MMA fighters who have a certain number of fights in the state, bill sponsor Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) told ESPN. The legislation was introduced in state
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen set the pace on the first day of Formula 1 pre-season testing in Bahrain. The world champion, top of the timesheets for most of the day, ended it 0.029 seconds quicker than Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc were third and fourth fastest, ahead of McLaren’s Lando
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11:47 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton is hiring Vance Joseph, the team’s former head coach, to be his defensive coordinator, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Thursday. Joseph coached the Broncos in 2017 and 2018 before then-general manager John Elway fired him following a 6-10 season that resulted in the
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7:40 AM ET Aaron Rodgers is known for spending his offseason in what can be described as unconventional methods of self-reflection. In 2020, the Green Bay Packers quarterback traveled to Peru to try ayahuasca, a plant-based psychoactive traditionally used in indigenous ceremonies, and nearly got stuck in South America as the coronavirus began to shut
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9:00 AM ET BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky — Just before Jamarion Sharp dipped his head so he could fit through the door of a local Mexican restaurant, it happened to him — the thing that always happens when you’re nearly as tall as a Christmas tree — again. A young man who’d just pulled up to
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7:00 AM ET Jeremy Fowler Close Jeremy Fowler ESPN Staff Writer ESPN staff writer Previously a college football reporter for CBSSports.com University of Florida graduate Jamison Hensley Close Jamison Hensley ESPN Staff Writer University of Maryland graduate Lives in the Baltimore area with his wife and son OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens entered
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7:00 AM ET A group of Los Angeles Dodgers hitters descended upon Kent, Washington, this offseason to swing abnormally heavy bats under the watchful eyes of Driveline analysts, all with one mission in mind: Survive. Hitting has never been more difficult, a truism that acts as the biggest impediment to Major League Baseball’s determined efforts
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7:54 AM ET Aaron Rodgers has emerged from his darkness retreat, according to the owner of the facility in southern Oregon where the Green Bay Packers quarterback spent the past several days and nights. Scott Berman, who owns Sky Cave Retreats, said Rodgers left the dark room and the facility Wednesday. Before entering the retreat,
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