Month: September 2023

Sep 13, 2023, 12:36 PM ET All NFL practice squads will include at least one international player starting in 2024 as the NFL announced Wednesday the expansion of its International Player Pathway program. A total of 37 international players have signed with NFL teams since the IPP’s inception in 2017. Nineteen are currently on NFL
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Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA InsiderSep 13, 2023, 12:37 PM ET Close Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 The NBA Board of Governors on Wednesday voted to approve new rules strengthening resting policy rules and punishments for star players that include national TV games, in-season tournament games and sitting out multiple All-Stars together
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Primoz Roglic pipped team-mate Jonas Vingegaard to win stage 17 of the Vuelta a Espana, while their Jumbo-Visma colleague Sepp Kuss retained the leader’s jersey. With Kuss struggling after climbing the famed Angliru, Vingegaard and Roglic battled for the stage win, with the Slovenian coming out on top. Last year’s Vuelta winner Remco Evenepoel dominated
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Sep 13, 2023, 11:27 AM ET Micah Parsons joined the chorus of observers confused as to why Daniel Jones wasn’t pulled — for his own protection — from the Giants‘ historic season-opening loss to the Cowboys. With Parsons leading the charge, the Cowboys sacked Jones seven times and constantly pressured the Giants quarterback in Sunday
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Sep 13, 2023, 10:43 AM ET Iga Swiatek has withdrawn from the penultimate WTA 1000 event of the season in Guadalajara next week to stay fit for the rest of an “intense” season, the world’s No. 2 player said Wednesday. The 22-year-old Polish player was beaten by Jelena Ostapenko in the US Open fourth round
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Sep 13, 2023, 09:28 AM ET The NFL Players Association’s new executive director has called for the league to change all of its field surfaces to natural grass in the wake of Aaron Rodgers‘ season-ending injury. Rodgers suffered a torn Achilles tendon on the fourth play of the Jets‘ season Monday night, spoiling the superstar
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ESPN News Services Sep 12, 2023, 11:30 AM ET Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been banned for four years for two separate anti-doping rule violations, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Tuesday. Halep, 31, who has won at Wimbledon and the French Open, has been provisionally suspended since October 2022 after testing positive
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ESPN News Services Sep 13, 2023, 08:21 AM ET The Washington Nationals have agreed to a multiyear contract extension with president of baseball operations and general manager Mike Rizzo, the team announced Wednesday. The new deal with Rizzo, whose contract had been set to expire after the season, allows him to continue the Nationals’ rebuilding
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Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterSep 13, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Inspirational thought of the week: Do you know who I am?Have you any idea who I am?Do you know how I tried?Have you any idea
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The United States came to life in the second half to put together a 4-0 win over Oman in a friendly in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Tuesday night. Back on the sidelines for the second time since returning as U.S. coach, Gregg Berhalter watched his team labor at first — as it had in Saturday’s
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