Month: August 2024

Jeff Passan, ESPNAug 12, 2024, 03:05 PM ET Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Open Extended Reactions The Boston Red Sox and Major League Baseball have suspended outfielder Jarren Duran for two games after he uttered an anti-gay slur at a fan during
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Eli Lederman, ESPN Staff WriterAug 12, 2024, 02:55 PM ET Close Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World. Open Extended Reactions Georgia Tech landed a pledge from in-state offensive tackle Josh Petty on Monday, marking
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Adam Teicher, ESPN Staff WriterAug 12, 2024, 02:35 PM ET Close Covered Chiefs for 20 seasons for Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013 Open Extended Reactions ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Marquise Brown won’t need surgery for his dislocated shoulder, coach Andy Reid said. “They were able to get the
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Field Level Media Aug 12, 2024, 02:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The New Jersey Devils re-signed forward Nolan Foote to a one-year, two-way contract on Monday. The deal is worth $825,000 at the NHL level and $150,000 in the American Hockey League. Foote, 23, had one goal in four games for the Devils last
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Jordan Raanan, ESPN Staff WriterAug 12, 2024, 01:57 PM ET Close Jordan Raanan is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Raanan covers the New York Giants. You can follow him via Twitter @JordanRaanan. Open Extended Reactions EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants consider rookie wide receiver Malik Nabers to be day-to-day after
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Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterAug 12, 2024, 02:00 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions Maryland athletic director Damon Evans has received a two-year contract extension through the 2028-29 athletic year. The new deal for Evans, who has led Maryland’s athletics department since June 2018,
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ESPN News Services Aug 12, 2024, 11:14 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Tiger Woods once said that “golf is a lonely sport.” Matt Kuchar knows the feeling after a bizarre ending Monday to the Wyndham Championship. Kuchar was the only player who opted not to finish Sunday’s final round at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro,
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Field Level Media Aug 12, 2024, 01:49 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Atlanta Braves placed left-handed reliever A.J. Minter on the 15-day injured list Monday with left hip inflammation. Minter spent more than a month on the IL in late May and into June with the same injury. In a corresponding move, the Braves
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Getty Images Jack Skelton BBC Sport Senior Journalist 1 hour ago Dutch rider Charlotte Kool surged to win stage one of the Tour de France Femmes in a bunch sprint finish in The Hague. DSM-Firmenich PostNL’s Kool kicked clear with around 100m to go and held off the chasers to claim the first leader’s yellow
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Associated Press Aug 12, 2024, 12:19 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Georgia is No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 preseason college football poll for the second straight year as the superconference era begins with the SEC and Big Ten dominating the top 10 of the rankings. The Bulldogs received 46 first-place votes and
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Aug 12, 2024, 11:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Brandt Snedeker will serve as one of Keegan Bradley’s vice captains on the U.S. Ryder Cup team which will try to reclaim the trophy from Europe next year at Bethpage Black in New York, the PGA of America said on Monday. Snedeker, a nine-time winner on
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Aug 12, 2024, 09:55 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Vinícius Júnior is the latest target for the Saudi Pro League, a source has told ESPN, and the Real Madrid player is considering a proposal to move to the Gulf country. Vinícius, 24, helped lead Madrid to a Champions League and LaLiga double last season and
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Aug 12, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Three years after Aaron Rodgers told reporters he’d been “immunized” against the COVID-19 virus, the quarterback says in a soon-to-be-published unauthorized biography that he should have been truthful about his status. Rodgers, who previously said the controversy had a dramatic impact on his public image, told
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