Month: May 2023

Andrea Adelson Close Andrea Adelson ESPN Senior Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. David Hale Close David Hale ESPN Staff Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. May 17, 2023, 02:03 PM ET AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — ACC commissioner Jim Phillips wrapped
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May 17, 2023, 02:15 PM ET Golden State Warriors perennial All-Star Stephen Curry and NBA prospect Scoot Henderson are teaming up to form a strategic alliance built on common values in an effort to encourage and promote the future of youth sports. Curry and Henderson are in lockstep partly because of their entrepreneurial vision, Curry
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Andre Snellings, ESPNMay 17, 2023, 10:30 AM ET The San Antonio Spurs won the 2023 NBA lottery on Tuesday night, also known as the Victor Wembanyama sweepstakes. Adrian Wojnarowski called Wembanyama not just the greatest draft prospect in NBA history, but perhaps the greatest prospect in any team sport in history. So, with that luminous
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Alaina Getzenberg, ESPNMay 17, 2023, 01:25 PM ET ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Leslie Frazier will be among the 40 participants in the NFL’s Coach Accelerator program held at the spring league meeting in Minneapolis next week. The NFL announced on Wednesday the coaches who will be participating in the program. The program’s aim is to
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ESPN News Services May 17, 2023, 12:51 PM ET Blue Jays pitcher Jay Jackson said he was tipping his pitches while facing Yankees star Aaron Judge, who has received widespread scrutiny for a sideways glance before his mammoth home run off the Toronto right-hander. Television cameras showed Judge quickly glance toward the Yankees’ first-base dugout
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Nick Friedell, ESPN Staff WriterMay 17, 2023, 12:42 PM ET Close Nick Friedell is the Chicago Bulls beat reporter for ESPN Chicago. Friedell is a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and joined ESPNChicago.com for its launch in April 2009. BOSTON — As the Miami Heat get set to
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ESPN News Services May 17, 2023, 11:24 AM ET NEW YORK — Major League Baseball launched a community assistance platform Wednesday called “MLB Together.” The platform will focus on youth empowerment; diversity, equity and inclusion; domestic and physical safety; health research and resources; military family and veteran resources; disaster relief; and environmental sustainability and green
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Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterMay 17, 2023, 11:29 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Michigan has hired Glenn “Shemy” Schembechler, son of longtime Wolverines coach Bo Schembechler, as its assistant director of football recruiting. Shemy Schembechler confirmed the hiring to ESPN and posted about it Wednesday on
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Associated Press May 17, 2023, 10:58 AM ET ROME — Holger Rune recorded his second victory over Novak Djokovic in little more than six months, beating the 22-time Grand Slam champion 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 Wednesday to reach the Italian Open semifinals. The 20-year-old Rune, who also defeated the Serbian player in the Paris Masters final
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No bot is perfect. Projections play a big part in fantasy baseball prognostications, from guiding rankings to assisting in trade evaluation to estimating individual game matchups. They do not always, however, tell a complete story about what is yet to come. Projections generally cannot account for the human element of the game, especially dramatic, unexpected
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Michael Rothstein, ESPN Staff WriterMay 17, 2023, 08:30 AM ET Close Previously covered University of Michigan for ESPN.com and AnnArbor.com Also covered Notre Dame for Fort Wayne Journal Gazette When the first version of a college football video game in years comes out next summer, the virtual likenesses of actual players will be in the
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Britain’s Tao Geoghegan Hart is out of the Giro d’Italia after a crash midway through stage 11. The Ineos Grenadiers rider looked in distress after falling before being taken away in an ambulance. Team-mate Geraint Thomas and Jumbo-Visma’s Primoz Roglic were also involved in the crash, but both got back up and continued. Geoghegan Hart,
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Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterMay 17, 2023, 09:00 AM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Emmanuel Okoye, who grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and was most recently a part of the NFL Academy program in England, said Wednesday that he plans to play college football at
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