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7:40 AM ET ESPN News Services Shohei Ohtani is expected to make a Major League Baseball-record $65 million for the 2023 season including endorsements, according to an annual list published Monday by Forbes, making the Los Angeles Angels‘ two-way standout the highest-paid player in the sport. The amount includes the one-year, $30 million contract extension
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2:47 AM ET DENVER — Nikola Jokic did not get to face Joel Embiid in a highly anticipated duel with MVP ramifications on Monday night. With Embiid sitting out due to a right calf injury, Jokic delivered his 29th triple-double of the season to lift the Denver Nuggets to a 116-111 win over the Philadelphia
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12:56 AM ET ESPN News Services MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Canada’s Bianca Andreescu, the 2019 U.S. Open champion, left the court in a wheelchair due to a lower left leg injury in the second set of her Monday night match against 18th-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova at the Miami Open. There was no immediate word on the
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8:03 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Third-ranked Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Chilean qualifier Cristian Garin 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 at the Miami Open on Monday, the Greek’s first on-court action after a bye and walkover in the opening rounds. Tsitsipas had 12 aces in his first victory since an opening-round win in Rotterdam over
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12:55 AM ET CINCINNATI — The Bengals picked up a key offensive player late Monday night. Tight end Irv Smith Jr. agreed to terms with the team on a one-year deal, a source confirmed to ESPN. Smith gives the Bengals a potential starting tight end for the upcoming season. A 2019 second-round draft pick, Smith
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6:44 PM ET UFC flyweight fighter Alex Perez said it was a seizure that forced him out of his 125-pound contender bout against Manel Kape at UFC San Antonio this past Saturday. On Sunday, Perez wrote on social media that he suffered a seizure while doing his prefight warmup, which is why he withdrew from
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11:26 PM ET PHOENIX — Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis spoke Monday at the NFL owners’ meetings about the organization’s decision to move on from longtime starting quarterback Derek Carr, saying constant change in the team’s head coach played a big part in Carr’s relative lack of on-field success. Davis, on the six-year anniversary
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2:12 PM ET Adrian Wojnarowski Close Adrian Wojnarowski Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Ramona Shelburne Close Ramona Shelburne ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News Ahead of a much-anticipated meeting of two MVP front-runners, the Philadelphia 76ers ruled out
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10:59 PM ET PHOENIX — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft expressed optimism Monday that the Washington Commanders could be sold soon. Indianapolis Colts counterpart Jim Irsay expressed caution, saying the sale could spill into the fall. In other words, NFL owners aren’t quite sure when the Commanders sale will be finalized. What they do
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10:07 PM ET Cleveland Guardians right-hander Triston McKenzie has been shut down due to a strain of his right teres major muscle (back of the shoulder) and could miss up to eight weeks, the team announced on Monday. McKenzie left after just one inning of Sunday’s spring training game due to soreness and tightness in
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4:06 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Second baseman Nico Hoerner and the Chicago Cubs are in agreement on a three-year, $35 million contract extension, sources told ESPN, locking up the team’s most productive player last season for an
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