Month: August 2024

Associated Press Aug 2, 2024, 06:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — British golfer Tommy Fleetwood is on familiar turf and chasing another gold trophy at Le Golf National, this one an Olympic medal instead of that 17-inch Ryder Cup trophy. The medal chase in men’s golf began to take shape Friday with
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Associated Press Aug 2, 2024, 08:48 AM ET VILLEPINTE, France — The Hungarian Boxing Association says it is sending letters of protest to both the IOC and Hungary’s Olympic committee over Anna Luca Hamori’s quarterfinal matchup with Imane Khelif of Algeria in women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics. Hamori still will accept her fight on
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Jeff Wagenheim, ESPNAug 1, 2024, 04:46 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Liz Carmouche missed the flyweight limit for Friday’s PFL playoff semifinal bout with Taila Santos, and it complicates her bid to advance to the final. Carmouche, who is also the Bellator MMA champion, tipped the scale at 127 pounds — two pounds over the
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Jorge Castillo, ESPN Staff WriterAug 2, 2024, 06:20 PM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024. Open Extended Reactions NEW
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ESPN News Services Aug 2, 2024, 05:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France — Victor Wembanyama was lurking. Franz Wagner kept going anyway. He slashed into the middle of the lane, then slipped under the swatting arm of the 7-foot-4 phenom for an emphatic left-handed dunk. It might have been the biggest highlight of
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Field Level Media Aug 2, 2024, 04:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Chicago White Sox placed right-hander Drew Thorpe on the 15-day injured list Friday with a right flexor strain. The 23-year-old rookie is 3-3 with a 5.48 ERA and a .212 opponents’ batting average in nine starts since his June 11 debut. The
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Dan Hajducky, ESPNAug 2, 2024, 05:30 PM ET Close Hajducky is an associate editor for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men’s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities. Open Extended Reactions The home locker that the late Kobe Bryant used from 2003-04 to
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ESPN News Services Aug 2, 2024, 04:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Infielder Coby Mayo, one of the top prospects in baseball, will make his major league debut Friday night for the Baltimore Orioles. The Orioles called him up from Triple-A Norfolk and penciled him into the lineup against the Cleveland Guardians. He will play
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Dave Wilson, ESPN Staff WriterAug 2, 2024, 04:36 PM ET Close Dave Wilson is a college football reporter. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. Open Extended Reactions Former TCU head coach Gary Patterson, hired in February as a consultant at Baylor, is no longer in that
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Jeff Legwold, ESPN Senior WriterAug 2, 2024, 04:14 PM ET Close Jeff Legwold is a senior writer who covers the Denver Broncos and the NFL at ESPN. Jeff has covered the Broncos for more than 20 years, joining ESPN in 2013. He also assists with NFL draft coverage, including his annual top 100 prospects. Jeff
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Associated Press Aug 2, 2024, 03:24 PM ET A jury reached a split verdict Friday in the case of a mother charged with abandoning her newborn in subfreezing temperatures after giving birth in the woods. Jurors found 27-year-old Alexandra Eckersley, daughter of baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley, guilty of reckless conduct and endangering
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Associated Press Aug 2, 2024, 03:27 PM ET Open Extended Reactions VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France — The post from the Spanish basketball federation to congratulate Rudy Fernandez on his career came immediately after the game, and only one word was necessary. “Gracias.” Fernandez’s sixth and final Olympics — and presumably, the end of his time as a
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ESPN News Services Aug 2, 2024, 02:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky and the NCAA reached a settlement Friday over infractions that included 11 football players getting paid for work they did not perform in 2021 and ’22. The negotiated resolution said the school agreed with the NCAA Committee on Infractions
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Field Level Media Aug 2, 2024, 01:28 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The New York Yankees added recently acquired right-handed pitcher Enyel De Los Santos to the active roster Friday as they prepare to open a three-game series against the visiting Toronto Blue Jays. De Los Santos was shipped to the Yankees on Tuesday in
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