Month: June 2024

Open Extended Reactions Top Australian basketball prospect Roman Siulepa will sign with the Tasmania JackJumpers of the Australian NBL Next Stars program, he told ESPN on Tuesday. “I’m homegrown, and wanted to stay here,” Siulepa told ESPN. “Once I heard I had the opportunity to be part of such an exciting program, I jumped at
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Ryan S. Clark, NHL reporterJun 4, 2024, 01:05 PM ET Close Ryan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN. Open Extended Reactions Dallas Stars forward Joe Pavelski said Tuesday that he will not play next season while adding, “this is it for me.” While Pavelski did not outright say he was retiring from the
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Field Level Media Jun 4, 2024, 01:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Washington Nationals placed right-hander Trevor Williams on the 15-day injured list Tuesday with a right flexor muscle strain. Williams, 32, had been scheduled to start Tuesday’s game against the visiting New York Mets. He is 5-0 with a 2.22 ERA this season,
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Marcel Louis-Jacques, ESPNJun 4, 2024, 02:41 PM ET Close Marcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as a beat reporter covering the Buffalo Bills, before switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The former Carolina Panthers beat writer for the Charlotte Observer won the APSE award for breaking news and the South Carolina Press Association award
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ESPN News Services Jun 4, 2024, 01:29 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DETROIT — Two-time Olympic gold medalist Claressa Shields announced Tuesday she is moving up two weight classes to challenge women’s WBC heavyweight champion Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse on July 27. Shields (14-0, 2 KOs) and Lepage-Joanisse (7-1, 2 KOs) of Quebec will headline the boxing
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Alden Gonzalez, ESPN Staff WriterJun 4, 2024, 01:47 PM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. Open Extended Reactions SANTA ANA, Calif. — Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani, pleaded guilty to bank
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Associated Press Jun 4, 2024, 11:57 AM ET DUBLIN, Ohio — Dozens of players gathered Tuesday for a solemn celebration of life for Grayson Murray, the PGA Tour winner who had turned the corner from struggles with alcoholism and depression only to take his life a day after withdrawing from a tournament. “All of us
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Getty Images 4 hours ago Australian cyclist Robert Stannard has been banned for four years due to abnormalities that were found in his Athlete Biological Passport (ABP). Cycling’s governing body the UCI has backdated the 25-year-old’s suspension to 17 August 2018, when the first abnormality was found, taking into account the delay with which the
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Nick Wagoner, ESPN Staff WriterJun 4, 2024, 01:32 PM ET Close Nick Wagoner is an NFL reporter at ESPN. Nick has covered the San Francisco 49ers and the NFL at ESPN since 2016, having previously covered the St. Louis Rams for 12 years, including three years (2013 to 2015) at ESPN. In his 10 years
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Jun 4, 2024, 11:52 AM ET Open Extended Reactions U.S. team captain Jim Furyk on Tuesday named Stewart Cink, Justin Leonard and Kevin Kisner as his assistants for this year’s Presidents Cup showdown against Mike Weir‘s International squad in Montreal. The 2024 edition of the biennial competition, which pits a 12-man U.S. team against a
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Jun 4, 2024, 12:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The pink house where Muhammad Ali grew up dreaming of boxing fame — and where hundreds of fans gathered for an emotional send-off as his funeral procession passed by decades later — is up for sale. The two-bedroom, one-bathroom house in Louisville was
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Associated Press Jun 4, 2024, 10:58 AM ET Open Extended Reactions CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR on Tuesday granted Kyle Larson the waiver he needs to remain eligible to compete in this year’s playoffs despite missing the Coca-Cola 600 because he instead ran the Indianapolis 500. The decision came after nearly nine days of internal NASCAR
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Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterJun 4, 2024, 10:59 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Novak Djokovic has been forced to withdraw from his French Open quarterfinal against
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