Month: November 2024

Associated Press Nov 28, 2024, 05:00 PM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Bill Battle III, who was athletic director at his alma mater, Alabama, where he played for Paul “Bear” Bryant’s first national championship team, then later coached the Tennessee Volunteers and founded the Collegiate Licensing Company, has died. He was 82. Alabama released a statement
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Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterNov 28, 2024, 03:39 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Open Extended Reactions Caleb Grill, Missouri‘s leading scorer, has avoided serious injury and been discharged from a local hospital following a scary, mid-air collision with his head and neck during his
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Brooke Pryor, ESPN Staff WriterNov 28, 2024, 02:09 PM ET Close Previously covered the Kansas City Chiefs for the Kansas City Star and Oklahoma University for the Oklahoman. Open Extended Reactions PITTSBURGH — Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith said Thursday he had a preliminary conversation with North Carolina about their head coach vacancy following the
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Jordan Raanan, ESPN Staff WriterNov 28, 2024, 12:25 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 New York Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito is expected to be out for Thursday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys
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ESPN News Services Nov 28, 2024, 09:13 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Five-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek accepted a one-month suspension after testing positive for the banned substance trimetazidine, a heart medication known as TMZ, the International Tennis Integrity Agency announced Thursday. Swiatek failed an out-of-competition drug test in August. She formally admitted the
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Associated Press Nov 28, 2024, 06:12 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Yannick Noah, the 1983 French Open champion, has been appointed as the new head of France’s para tennis beginning next year. The French tennis federation said in a statement Thursday that Noah will be in charge of coordinating wheelchair, visually impaired, deaf
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Nick ParkinsonNov 28, 2024, 07:16 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Conor Benn has been cleared to fight in the United Kingdom after UK Anti-Doping announced it will not appeal the decision by the National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP) to lift
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Field Level Media Nov 27, 2024, 12:22 PM ET Colorado Avalanche forward Jonathan Drouin is week-to-week with an upper-body injury, coach Jared Bednar said Wednesday. Drouin has not played since scoring his first two goals of the season in Saturday’s 7-4 road win against the Florida Panthers. He missed Monday’s 8-2 loss at the Tampa
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