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As-it-happens update April 27, 2019
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Happy Vladimir Guerrero Jr. day! The son of the great Hall of Famer made the most anticipated major league debut since -- pick one -- Bryce Harper or Stephen Strasburg or Alex Rodriguez or Ken Griffey Jr. on Friday in Toronto, and after 48 hours of hype to ...
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SB Nation
After a relatively chill first round on Thursday, the NFL Draft had its second and third rounds on Friday, before teams wrap up with four rounds on Saturday. We could wait until drafted players actually get onto the field to judge them, but I don't see the fun in that ...
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NBCSports.com
The 49ers addressed their defensive line and receiving corps with their first two picks of the 2019 NFL Draft. With its third selection, San Francisco continued to bolster its passing attack with another physical, hard-charging wide receiver. The 49ers selected ...
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NBCSports.com
Sometimes there are things in life that don't really register as a sign until later, once you've seen how it plays out. Take this anecdote from Iowa State running back David Montgomery, the player the Bears traded up in the Draft to get. David Montgomery says ...
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ESPN
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Chiefs couldn't have found a wide receiver much more like Tyreek Hill than the one they chose with their first pick in this year's draft. The Chiefs selected Georgia's Mecole Hardman in the second round with the 56th ...
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ESPN
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The New York Giants finally addressed the need for an edge rusher, taking defensive end Oshane Ximines of Old Dominion late in the third round Friday. A four-year starter and the first player to be drafted at his school, Ximines ...
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CBSSports.com
With the No. 100 pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, the Panthers selected Will Grier, quarterback out of West Virginia. Very good understanding of pre-snap defense and gets the ball out quickly on shorter routes. If Ryan Finley is an anticipation thrower, Grier is a ...
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CBSSports.com
Clemson announced Friday that it has agreed to a 10-year, $93 million contract extension with coach Dabo Swinney that will keep him with the Tigers through the 2028 season. The new deal will pay him $8.25 million in 2019, and increase incrementally up to ...
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CBSSports.com
With the No. 87 pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, the Patriots selected Damien Harris, running back out of Alabama. Runs with a lot more power than his listed weight would suggest and has loose, relatively fluid hips, a combination that leads to defenders bouncing ...
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CBSSports.com
Day 2 of the 2019 NFL Draft came and went Friday night in Nashville. If there's one big lesson to take away from the second and third rounds, it's that the SEC still has a firm grip on the talent pool for the league. Through three rounds, the SEC had 28 players ...
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ESPN
CHICAGO -- In a game growing more bizarre by the inning, Jose Abreu of the Chicago White Sox provided the most mad-cap moment of a wild contest by passing teammate Tim Anderson on the bases, erasing a key home run. The Chicago slugger seemingly ...
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CBSSports.com
NASHVILLE -- It's not often that a former NFL punter gets asked to announce a draft pick, but that's exactly what happened on Friday when the Colts sent out Pat McAfee to make the announcement for their third round pick. The good news for punters ...
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CBSSports.com
It's pretty clear that Kevin Durant did not want a Game 7 versus the Los Angeles Clippers. As the Golden State Warriors looked to close out their division rivals in the first round on Friday night, the two-time reigning Finals MVP put the team on his back in the ...
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USA TODAY
The Cleveland Browns were already a trendy pick to make a potential postseason run in 2019. Their first selection of the NFL draft took those expectations to another level. LSU cornerback Greedy Williams, whom the team took with the No. 46 overall pick after ...
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NBCSports.com
The 49ers and the Seahawks never have been big fans of each other. DK Metcalf should fit right into the NFC West rivalry. The Seahawks selected Metcalf -- famous for his standout performance at the NFL Scouting Combine -- with the No. 64 overall pick of ...
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The New York Times
Kyler Murray, picked No. 1 by the Cardinals, became the shortest quarterback to be drafted in nearly two decades.CreditCreditChristopher Hanewinckel/USA Today Sports, via Reuters. By Ken Belson. April 26, 2019. NASHVILLE — The N.F.L. is said to be a ...
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Washington Post
ATLANTA — Nolan Arenado combined with Trevor Story to homer on consecutive pitches in the fourth inning, then hit a tiebreaking double in the sixth that led the Colorado Rockies over the Atlanta Braves 8-4 on Friday night for their ninth win in 11 games.
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NJ.com
The Jets made their second selection of the third round at No. 92 on Friday night, adding offensive tackle Chuma Edoga to their growing 2019 NFL Draft class. The Jets swapped picks with the Vikings, moving up one spot and giving up their seventh-round ...
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Kansas City Star
The two-time Opening Day starter stepped onto a major-league pitching mound on Friday for the first time in 2019, 30 days after the Royals began their season. Over the next five months, Danny Duffy will be asked to stabilize — or at least boost — a rotation ...
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ESPN
SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco Giants scored to end the second-longest, first-inning scoring drought at the start of a season in major league history. Buster Posey's one-out sacrifice fly against the New York Yankees' James Paxton drove in Tyler ...
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cleveland.com
HOUSTON — Francisco Lindor's return to the Cleveland Indians' lineup has provided manager Terry Francona's offense with plenty of punch in just six games. On Friday, Lindor delivered a knockout blow to the Houston Astros in a 6-3 victory at Minute Maid ...
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Seahawks.com
The Seahawks traded up four spots in the third round to select Utah linebacker Cody Barton with the 88th pick in the 2019 draft. Barton, the second Utah player selected by Seattle on Friday along with safety Marquise Blair, led the Utes with 116 tackles as a ...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Miles Sanders was rated one of the nation's top running backs when he left Woodland Hills High School in 2016. After three years at Penn State, he seems to be as highly regarded as ever. Among players at his position, anyway. Advertisement.
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CBSSports.com
Virginia may have capped off a storybook 2018-19 men's basketball season with its first national championship, but it won't be celebrating its historic run at the White House. Just over two weeks after his team topped Texas Tech for the title, Cavaliers head ...
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cleveland.com
BEREA, Ohio -- The Cleveland Browns finally went on the clock on Friday night when they traded up with the Colts to select LSU cornerback Greedy Williams. They, of course, weren't the only team in the AFC North active in Rounds 2 and 3 of the NFL Draft.
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Tampa Bay Times
Who: Devin White. School: LSU. Position: Linebacker. How he fits: As the Bucs transition to a 3-4 defense, they like the idea of teaming a rare talent like White with veteran Lavonte David in the middle of the field. Inside linebacker is the most important position ...
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Miami Herald
Lonnie Johnson Jr. nearly quit playing football. The Indiana native was bouncing around the junior college ranks and having trouble making the jump up to the next level. "I almost gave it up at one point in junior college because I kept getting knocked down ...
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CBSSports.com
AVONDALE, La. (AP) -- Peter Malnati and Billy Hurley III topped the Zurich Classic leaderboard at 14-under 130 on Friday when darkness suspended second-round play in the team event at TPC Louisiana. Malnati and Hurley played 36 holes Friday, shooting ...
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247Sports
After months of due diligence and tireless preparation by the Dallas Cowboys, the pick is in. They opted to forego their first-round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, sending it to the Oakland Raiders in 2018 for wide receiver Amari Cooper, who was worth his weight ...
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Los Angeles Times
Now that almost half the field is gone, it shouldn't be too difficult to predict the winner of the Hugel-Air Premia L.A. Open at Wilshire Country Club. It will either be a young player trying to break through, a Hall of Famer, a multiple winner, a veteran hoping to ...
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detroitlions.com
For the second time in Day 2 of the 2019 NFL Draft, the Lions have bolstered the defensive side of the ball with the selection of defensive back Will Harris out of Boston College. The Lions moved up seven spots to take Harris, giving up one of their sixth-round ...
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Buffalo News
Here are five things to know about the Buffalo Bills' second third-round pick, Dawson Knox from Ole Miss. 1. He's a wide receiver-turned-quarterback-turned-tight end. Knox joined Ole Miss as a walk-on out of high school power Brentwood Academy in ...
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The Denver Post
True story: When he was 9 years old, Dalton Risner had already decided on his life's work. The dude was going to make pancakes. As in the fluffy kind. "He wanted to be a pancake maker," Mitch Risner said of his son, the Wiggins native and former Kansas ...
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OregonLive.com
EUGENE — What was expected to be a pitchers' duel in the Civil War softball series was a solo performance in its opening act. Oregon State's Mariah Mazon dominated Oregon's hitters in a six-hit shutout with four strikeouts in a 8-0 rout of the host Ducks in ...
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The Detroit News
The wait lasted longer than some expected, but just past the midway point of the NFL Draft's third round, Michigan State had a player selected. And when cornerback Justin Layne heard his name called Friday by the Pittsburgh Steelers as the No. 83 overall ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Orioles righthander Alex Cobb must've thought things couldn't get any worse after Twins tucked and rolled him a week ago in Baltimore. Alas, he was back on the mound Friday, facing them again. This time at Target Field. And the Twins weren't done with him ...
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Sun Sentinel
While Robert Kraft's lawyers pushed Friday to keep sex videos out of the billionaire's upcoming prostitution trial, new details emerged about the massage parlor investigation in the case. The Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office said the New England ...
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Miami Herald
Brian Anderson tried to make a play at the right-field wall, but there was no play to be made. J.T. Realmuto got too much out of the pitch. The former Marlins All-Star catcher hit a no-doubt home run in the first inning — the first of two by the Philadelphia Phillies ...
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247Sports
Former Iowa tight end Noah Fant got the chance to live his childhood dreams on Thursday night as NFL commissioner Roger Goodell called his name on the NFL Draft stage. The 6-foot-5 250-pound tight end will be making his way to the Denver Broncos after ...
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Houston Chronicle
The Texans drafted San Diego State tight end Kahale Warring in the third round with the 86th overall pick. Warring is 6-5, 252 pounds and runs the 40-yard dash in 4.67 seconds. He bench pressed 225 pounds 19 times at the NFL scouting combine and had a ...
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fox8.com
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Day two of the 2019 NFL Draft gave the Cleveland Browns two players they were in search of: a cornerback and linebacker. "With the 80th pick in the 2019 Draft, the Cleveland Browns select Sione Takitaki, LB, Brigham Young." ...
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Press Herald
BOSTON — The last time Charlie Coyle scored a winning overtime playoff goal for the Boston Bruins, the game was imaginary and he was a kid playing in sneakers in front of his house on a cul de sac in East Weymouth, Massachusetts. But on Thursday in ...
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The Guardian
This was an all too familiar tale of woe for Newcastle who now seem doomed to relegation to the Championship, their six-year stay in the Premiership all but over. They briefly threatened a second-half salvo but they were cruelly denied even a losing bonus ...
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The Daily Orange
Syracuse (15-4, 5-2 Atlantic Coast) lost to Boston College. (18-0, 7-0) 14-13 in the ACC tournament semifinals. It was the second time this season that the Orange fell to the Eagles. The game was back and forth from the start. BC got on the board first but ...
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For The Win
Reigning Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton is currently spending all of his free time in Baku ahead of this weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix binge-watching Game of Thrones. Hamilton admitted in an Instagram story Friday morning that he spends his ...
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NorthJersey.com
If you're dreaming of winning the Mega Millions jackpot, you should probably call a lawyer and be ready to tell lots of people no because life is about to get a little hectic. Here are the numbers for Friday, April 26: 9 - 17 - 23 - 30 - 46 and Megaball: 10.
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