Month: March 2023

12:56 AM ET ESPN News Services MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Canada’s Bianca Andreescu, the 2019 U.S. Open champion, left the court in a wheelchair due to a lower left leg injury in the second set of her Monday night match against 18th-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova at the Miami Open. There was no immediate word on the
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8:03 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Third-ranked Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Chilean qualifier Cristian Garin 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 at the Miami Open on Monday, the Greek’s first on-court action after a bye and walkover in the opening rounds. Tsitsipas had 12 aces in his first victory since an opening-round win in Rotterdam over
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12:55 AM ET CINCINNATI — The Bengals picked up a key offensive player late Monday night. Tight end Irv Smith Jr. agreed to terms with the team on a one-year deal, a source confirmed to ESPN. Smith gives the Bengals a potential starting tight end for the upcoming season. A 2019 second-round draft pick, Smith
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6:44 PM ET UFC flyweight fighter Alex Perez said it was a seizure that forced him out of his 125-pound contender bout against Manel Kape at UFC San Antonio this past Saturday. On Sunday, Perez wrote on social media that he suffered a seizure while doing his prefight warmup, which is why he withdrew from
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11:26 PM ET PHOENIX — Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis spoke Monday at the NFL owners’ meetings about the organization’s decision to move on from longtime starting quarterback Derek Carr, saying constant change in the team’s head coach played a big part in Carr’s relative lack of on-field success. Davis, on the six-year anniversary
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2:12 PM ET Adrian Wojnarowski Close Adrian Wojnarowski Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Ramona Shelburne Close Ramona Shelburne ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News Ahead of a much-anticipated meeting of two MVP front-runners, the Philadelphia 76ers ruled out
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10:59 PM ET PHOENIX — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft expressed optimism Monday that the Washington Commanders could be sold soon. Indianapolis Colts counterpart Jim Irsay expressed caution, saying the sale could spill into the fall. In other words, NFL owners aren’t quite sure when the Commanders sale will be finalized. What they do
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10:07 PM ET Cleveland Guardians right-hander Triston McKenzie has been shut down due to a strain of his right teres major muscle (back of the shoulder) and could miss up to eight weeks, the team announced on Monday. McKenzie left after just one inning of Sunday’s spring training game due to soreness and tightness in
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4:06 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Second baseman Nico Hoerner and the Chicago Cubs are in agreement on a three-year, $35 million contract extension, sources told ESPN, locking up the team’s most productive player last season for an
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6:56 PM ET PHOENIX — Speaking at the NFL annual league meeting Monday, general manager Howie Roseman said the Philadelphia Eagles hope to sign Jalen Hurts to a contract extension “relatively soon.” The topic was first broached when Roseman was asked why there wasn’t a bigger push made to bring back safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson, who
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8:20 PM ET A 26-year-old woman on Monday filed a federal defamation suit against Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, a longtime Arkansas friend and a Cowboys spokesman, alleging the three men “initiated a deliberate plan” to portray the billionaire’s “own daughter … as an ‘extortionist’ and a ‘shakedown artist’ whose motivation was money and greed.”
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8:16 PM ET PHOENIX — If Aaron Rodgers wanted direct conversations with the Green Bay Packers about their direction and his future, then one high-level team executive believes the quarterback should have responded to their attempts to reach him this offseason. General manager Brian Gutekunst said Monday at the NFL annual league meeting that he
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7:00 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. The Minnesota Wild are a first-place hockey team heading into Monday night’s game against the Seattle Kraken (8 p.m. ET, ESPN+/Hulu). But might they have their sights set even higher? There is quite
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