Month: October 2023

Oct 3, 2023, 11:41 AM ET Jerry Jones sees this Sunday’s showdown against the San Francisco 49ers as a measuring stick of where the Dallas Cowboys stack up against what he considers the team “most likely” right now to win the Super Bowl. “They are, right now, probably the most likely team to go win
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Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterOct 3, 2023, 11:56 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez will be a licensed corner for Bellator MMA lightweight champion Usman Nurmagomedov at Bellator 300 on Saturday in San Diego. California State Athletic Commission
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Associated Press Oct 3, 2023, 12:37 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — Michael Lorenzen, Byron Buxton, Johnny Cueto and Jonathan Hernandez were among the players left off rosters for wild-card series that started Tuesday, while the Texas Rangers made the surprise inclusion of former top draft pick Matt Bush. The Minnesota Twins included Carlos Correa and rookie
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Mark Fainaru-Wada, ESPN Staff WriterOct 3, 2023, 10:35 AM ET Close Investigative reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit since 2007 Co-author of New York Times best-selling books “League of Denial” and “Game of Shadows” Co-winner, 2004 George Polk Award A bipartisan Congressional commission, citing the NBA’s stated values, called on the league to ban
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Oct 3, 2023, 07:42 AM ET Iga Swiatek has given her backing to the reintroduction of performance byes during the WTA’s Asian swing of events, saying it allowed players who reach the semi-finals of a tournament to rest and prepare for the next one. Under the rule, Jessica Pegula, Maria Sakkari, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Veronika
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Oct 3, 2023, 09:24 AM ET Rory McIlroy said not having the “big personalities” of LIV golfers Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter at the Ryder Cup allowed others to step into leadership roles and gave younger players room to grow at the tournament. Garcia, Westwood and Poulter were absent from Europe’s victory over
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ESPN News Services Oct 3, 2023, 09:40 AM ET Texas Rangers general manager Chris Young defended his team’s postseason-clinching celebration, saying he thinks it is “ridiculous that that’s even a subject” and ripping a Houston Astros reporter’s “pretty poor journalism” for a “classless” comparison of the in-state rivals’ celebrations. Young weighed in on what has
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Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterOct 3, 2023, 09:45 AM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato The men’s college basketball offseason offers an opportunity to reflect on the past, not just the most recent season, and examine the moments throughout the history of the sport. But sometimes
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