Month: January 2025

Jim McCormick, Special to ESPN.comJan 13, 2025, 01:32 PM ET Close Jim McCormick is a fantasy football and fantasy basketball analyst for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions Working the waiver wire is pivotal to succeeding in fantasy basketball. With so many games, injuries and endless shifts in rotations throughout the marathon campaign, we’ll need to source
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Associated Press Jan 13, 2025, 01:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The cover of PGA Tour 2K25 will feature Max Homa, Matt Fitzpatrick and Tiger Woods, 2K announced Monday. The three golfers are on the cover of the game’s standard and deluxe editions together. Woods alone is on the legend edition. Homa is making his
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David Purdum, ESPN Staff WriterJan 13, 2025, 11:46 AM ET Close Joined ESPN in 2014 Journalist covering gambling industry since 2008 A Las Vegas man was charged in connection to an illegal betting scheme involving Jontay Porter, the former Toronto Raptors player who admitted to manipulating his performance for gambling purposes and was banned from
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Shams Charania, Senior NBA InsiderJan 13, 2025, 01:12 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LiAngelo Ball has signed a deal with Def Jam and Universal Music Group, a representative from his label Born2Ball Music Group says. Sources told ESPN the deal is worth as much as $13 million, with $8 million guaranteed, and gives Ball full
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Field Level Media Jan 13, 2025, 12:45 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The NBA fined Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards $50,000 on Monday for “making obscene gestures toward a game official.” It marks the fifth time this season that Edwards has been fined, totaling $285,000. This latest incident occurred Saturday during the second quarter of
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ESPN News Services Jan 13, 2025, 12:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PHILADELPHIA — Step aside, Oprah. Philadelphia Eagles star receiver A.J. Brown could launch a book club of his own after a little sideline reading skyrocketed self-help author Jim Murphy to the hottest seller on Amazon overnight. The Eagles wide receiver passed on the
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Todd Archer, ESPN Staff WriterJan 13, 2025, 12:12 PM ET Close Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010. You can follow him on Twitter at @toddarcher. Open Extended Reactions Mike McCarthy is not
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Jan 13, 2025, 10:33 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Tyson Fury shocked the boxing world on Monday with a retirement announcement less than a month after his heavyweight title defeat to Oleksandr Usyk. But Fury is no stranger to retiring before returning to the ring, sometimes within months. Whether Britain’s former heavyweight champion stages another
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Pete Thamel, Senior College Sports InsiderJan 13, 2025, 11:51 AM ET Close College Football Senior Writer for ESPN. Insider for College Gameday. Open Extended Reactions Clemson is working toward a deal to hire Penn State defensive coordinator Tom Allen as the school’s new defensive coordinator, sources told ESPN. Allen has emerged as Clemson’s top target,
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Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJan 13, 2025, 11:06 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Duke forward Maliq Brown will miss several weeks with a sprained knee, coach Jon Scheyer said Monday morning. Brown suffered the injury in Saturday’s win over Notre Dame. “He’ll
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Tim McManus, ESPN Staff WriterJan 13, 2025, 10:38 AM ET Close Tim McManus covers the Philadelphia Eagles for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2016 after covering the Eagles for Philadelphia Magazine’s Birds 24/7, a site he helped create, since 2010. You can follow him on Twitter @Tim_McManus. PHILADELPHIA — Eagles starting linebacker Nakobe Dean is
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Open Extended Reactions 2025 is starting out as a great year for MMA. ESPN’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter, Islam Makhachev, puts his UFC lightweight title on the line against Arman Tsarukyan and bantamweight champ Merab Dvalishvili defends against Umar Nurmagomedov at UFC 311 in Inglewood, California, on Saturday. Then February kicks off with a bang
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Jan 13, 2025, 09:11 AM ET Former LSU wide receiver Kyren Lacy, accused of causing a crash that killed a 78-year-old man on Dec. 17 and then fleeing the scene without rendering aid or calling authorities, turned himself in to authorities Sunday night, was jailed and then released on $151,000 bail, according to police records.
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