6:16 PM ET Nebraska is turning to its football team for some help in the Big Ten basketball tournament. The Cornhuskers have rounded out their roster by adding two football players — quarterback Noah Vedral and offensive tackle Brant Banks — for the conference tourney that begins Wednesday in Indianapolis, coach Fred Hoiberg said. Both
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5:22 PM ET Associated Press CHELTENHAM, England — A crowd of more than 60,000 attended the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival, where more wash basins and hand sanitizer stations were in place to help combat the virus outbreak. The total of 60,664 racegoers on Tuesday was around 7,000 fewer than the record number present
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4:04 PM ET Two NFL teams have proposed the addition of a booth umpire to each officiating crew for the 2020 season, one of seven team-based rule changes that league owners will consider this offseason. None of the proposals have been vetted or endorsed yet by the competition committee, which will meet later this month
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4:37 PM BST The United States captain Blaine Scully has announced his retirement from professional rugby after a decade in the sport. Scully, 32, earned 54 international appearances and featured at three World Cups, seven World Rugby Sevens Series tournaments and won bronze at the 2011 Pan American Games. The wing became captain of the
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4:27 PM ET The Cleveland Cavaliers and coach J.B. Bickerstaff have agreed to a multiyear contract, the team announced Tuesday. Terms were not disclosed, but sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that Bickerstaff agreed to a four-year deal that will take him through the 2023-24 season. Bickerstaff took over as head coach last month after Cleveland
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2:41 PM BST PRO14 has postponed all Round 14 and 15 fixtures involving Benetton and Zebre due to restrictions on travelling implemented by the Italian government. The decision affects the Round 14 game between Cardiff Blues and Zebre and the Round 15 game between Munster and Benetton, due to be held in Wales and Ireland
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2:21 PM ET The deaths of 23 racehorses at Santa Anita Park during last year’s meet could not be blamed on illegal medications or procedures, according to a report released Tuesday, but horsemen were not found to be completely without blame. Those were just some of the conclusions of the California Horse Racing Board in
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2:05 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said Tuesday that the Tour has no plans to cancel upcoming events because of the coronavirus outbreak, including the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in Austin, Texas, in two weeks. There were concerns that the match play tournament scheduled to be played at
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1:09 PM ET The PFL announced a new class of signees, including several UFC and Bellator MMA veterans, for its 2020 regular season on Tuesday. Some of the more established names amongst the announcement included former UFC lightweight Johnny Case (27-7-1), former Bellator lightweight title challenger Marcin Held (26-7) and NCAA Division I national champion
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7:00 AM ET MESA — Yu Darvish is the only human being on the planet who has the following two abilities: He can throw nine different pitches on the mound and then, while hanging out in the clubhouse after the game, the Chicago Cubs righty can guess your blood type. Wait. What? It might be
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9:17 AM ET ESPN News Services Maximum Security was moved from trainer Jason Servis to Bob Baffert on Tuesday after Servis was indicted Monday and charged with administering performance-enhancing drugs to that horse and others. Servis was one of 27 horse racing professionals charged by federal authorities in what authorities described as a widespread international
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