Month: September 2023

ESPN News Services Sep 29, 2023, 12:00 PM ET A Tennessee judge said Friday she is ending a conservatorship agreement between former NFL player Michael Oher and a Memphis couple who took him in when he was in high school. Shelby County Probate Court Judge Kathleen Gomes said she is terminating the agreement reached in
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Associated Press Sep 29, 2023, 12:36 PM ET NEW YORK — The NBA has suspended former San Antonio Spurs guard Joshua Primo four games without pay for conduct detrimental to the league. League investigators found that Primo engaged in inappropriate behavior by exposing himself to women. Primo insists his conduct was not intentional, the league
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Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterSep 29, 2023, 11:54 AM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Arterio Morris has been dismissed from the Kansas men’s basketball team after he was arrested and charged with rape, Bill Self announced Friday. Per documents obtained by ESPN, Morris was arrested
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Sep 29, 2023, 11:42 AM ET The Ottawa Senators appointed Steve Staios as president of hockey operations on Friday. Earlier on Friday morning, Staios resigned from his position as special adviser to hockey operations with the Edmonton Oilers. “I am so excited that Steve is joining me in Ottawa to lead our hockey operations,” Senators
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Buster Olney, ESPN Senior WriterSep 29, 2023, 10:19 AM ET Close Senior writer ESPN Magazine/ESPN.com Analyst/reporter ESPN television Author of “The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty” The Los Angeles Dodgers‘ preparation for their annual dress-up day, where the team as a whole wears costumes, has been intensely detailed. Gold whistles and chains. White hoodies
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Associated Press Sep 29, 2023, 09:38 AM ET TOKYO — Eight-seeded Veronika Kudermetova upset No. 1 Iga Swiatek 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the Toray Pan Pacific Open on Friday. It was the No. 19-ranked Kudermetova’s first career win over Swiatek in five attempts. The Russian advanced to her sixth semifinal of the
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Michael DiRocco, ESPN Staff WriterSep 29, 2023, 10:59 AM ET Close Michael DiRocco is an NFL reporter at ESPN. DiRocco covers the Jacksonville Jaguars. He previously covered the University of Florida for over a decade for ESPN.com and Florida Times-Union. DiRocco graduated from Jacksonville University and is a multiple APSE award winner. You can follow
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Associated Press Sep 29, 2023, 11:12 AM ET BEIJING — Second-ranked Carlos Alcaraz made a comfortable debut in China on Friday with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over qualifier Yannick Hanfmann in the first round of the China Open. In his first competitive match since the semifinals of the U.S. Open, the Spaniard traded breaks early
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Andrew Lopez, ESPNSep 28, 2023, 08:00 AM ET NEW ORLEANS — With a once-promising season lost, Zion Williamson sat at the end of the New Orleans Pelicans‘ bench. As his teammates and coaches slowly shuffled into the tunnel following the play-in tournament loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, Williamson, clad in all black, quietly remained
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