Month: August 2023

Associated Press Aug 14, 2023, 04:11 PM ET MADRID — The budding rivalry between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic is set to be renewed in the group stage of the Davis Cup Finals next month. Alcaraz and Djokovic were included in the teams announced Monday by Spain and Serbia, respectively, for the competition that will
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Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Staff WriterAug 14, 2023, 01:49 PM ET Eliah Drinkwitz and Missouri scored a big win off the field on Monday by securing a commitment from five-star defensive end Williams Nwaneri. Nwaneri, No. 12 overall in the 2024 ESPN 300 and the cycle’s second-best defensive end, is a product of Lee’s Summit North
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Aug 14, 2023, 03:24 PM ET The Dallas Cowboys and All-Pro guard Zack Martin reached agreement on a reworked contract, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Monday. Martin’s new deal will pay him north of $18 million in each of the next two years, according to the sources, who said both years have been fully
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Ryan S. Clark, NHL reporterAug 14, 2023, 02:52 PM ET Close Ryan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN. Toronto Maple Leafs forward prospect Rodion Amirov, the club’s 2020 first-round pick, has died, his agent, Dan Milstein, confirmed Monday. He was 21. Milstein posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Amirov died after
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Katherine Terrell, ESPN Staff WriterAug 14, 2023, 02:17 PM ET Close Katherine Terrell came back to ESPN to cover the New Orleans Saints in the summer of 2022. She left the company in 2019 after joining in 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is a graduate of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native,
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Associated Press Aug 14, 2023, 12:23 PM ET Georgia will begin its drive for an unprecedented college football championship three-peat as the No. 1 team in The Associated Press preseason Top 25. The Bulldogs received 60 of 63 first-place votes in the poll released Monday to easily outpoint No. 2 Michigan, which received two first-place
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Jeff Passan, ESPNAug 14, 2023, 01:47 PM ET Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball launched an investigation into Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco and the team placed him on the restricted list after social media posts questioned the alleged
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Associated Press Aug 14, 2023, 01:29 PM ET AMES, Iowa — An Iowa State defensive lineman accused of wagering on his team’s games, including one where he bet against the Cyclones, has left the program, the school confirmed Monday. Isaiah Lee, who started all 12 games last season, was among the athletes charged last week
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Jamison Hensley, ESPN Staff WriterAug 14, 2023, 01:07 PM ET Close Jamison Hensley is a reporter covering the Baltimore Ravens for ESPN. Jamison joined ESPN in 2011, covering the AFC North before focusing exclusively on the Ravens beginning in 2013. Jamison won the National Sports Media Association Maryland Sportswriter of the Year award in 2018,
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Michael A. Fletcher, ESPNAug 14, 2023, 12:00 PM ET Close Michael Fletcher is a senior writer with ESPN’s enterprise and investigative team. Before that, he wrote for ESPN’s The Undefeated, focusing on politics, criminal justice and social issues. He spent 21 years at The Washington Post, where his beats included the national economy, the White
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Greg Wyshynski, ESPNAug 14, 2023, 11:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar will grace the cover of EA Sports’ NHL 24 video game, it was announced. “It’s so cool,” Makar told ESPN. “When they were considering me to be a part of this, it was just
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Associated Press Aug 14, 2023, 12:47 PM ET Doris Burke will become the first woman to serve as a game analyst on television for a championship final in one of the four major professional U.S. sports leagues. ESPN announced Monday that Burke and Doc Rivers will join Mike Breen on ESPN and ABC’s top NBA
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Aug 14, 2023, 12:05 PM England have called up Northampton’s Alex Mitchell to replace Jack van Poortvliet in their World Cup squad after the scrumhalf was ruled out of the tournament having sustained an ankle injury in Saturday’s 19-17 win over Wales, the RFU said on Monday. Van Poorvliet had established himself as the probable
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