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Washington NFL team brings in Terry Bateman to oversee name change Washington's football team, in the midst of a name change and less than a week after a story detailed sexual harassment by former employees, hired Terry Bateman to oversee its business operations. Bateman will have the title of executive vice president and ...
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Eagles 2020 training camp battles: Who's the No. 2 cornerback? As we near the start of the Eagles' 2020 training camp, we're taking a closer look at some key position battles to watch this summer. Up first: No. 2 cornerback. Names to know. Avonte Maddox, Sidney Jones, Rasul Douglas. What to watch. This is probably the ...
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Biggest Jazz questions for NBA restart: Rudy Gobert-Donovan Mitchell rift repaired? Mike Conley to step up? The four-month NBA hiatus has been a whirlwind for the Utah Jazz. From Rudy Gobert's COVID-19 diagnosis ultimately shutting down the entire league and causing a divide in the locker room, to one of their most important players, Bojan Bogdanovic, electing ...
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MLS Power Rankings: Where Every Team Stands as Knockout Stage Nears Major League Soccer is back to being one of the most unpredictable leagues in the world. With almost two weeks of games in the books at ESPN's Wide World Sports of Complex, we have seen 78 goals. Orlando City, Philadelphia, Columbus, San Jose and ...
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Georgia DB Divaad Wilson entering transfer protocol Georgia defensive back Divaad Wilson entered the transfer portal on Monday. Wilson, a former four-star prospect from Miami, started two games as a redshirt freshman last season. He made his first career interception against Notre Dame but missed the ...
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Baseball 101: New York, New York (and New York, New York) Twenty years ago, in what now seems like a completely different world, New York was the undisputed Capital of Baseball. The Yankees and Mets, who essentially have their own separate worlds even in a normal year, made strong finishes, raced through ...
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Ranking Real Madrid's and Barcelona's Best Signings Since the 2015 Summer Window Real Madrid and Barcelona feel like two clubs in very different places right now. The former, newly crowned La Liga champions, put together an astonishing 10-game win streak to lift the trophy with a game to spare, have a deep crop of talented young players ...
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Fantasy Alert: WR CeeDee Lamb Expected to Receive Carries in Cowboys Offense The biggest concern for CeeDee Lamb from a fantasy perspective is his role within the Dallas Cowboys offense, but the rookie receiver is expected to get plenty of touches in 2020. "Look for second-year offensive play-caller Kellen Moore to get Lamb touches ...
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Madden 21 ratings: Lamar Jackson's game-breaking skills, Ravens' speedy offense and a surprise top player The game won't be released for another month, but the Madden NFL 21 player ratings are already out. Each year, players and analysts alike argue over the best players at each position. ESPN devoted a full "SportsCenter" special to the release of the ratings ...
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Why the Memorial was praised for a setup that would have been ridiculed at the US Open It was supposed to be Open Championship week. Maybe that's why Jack Nicklaus delivered a Memorial masquerading as a major, a brutal tournament setup that received unanimous praise from the field and observers. Which has to marvel, and perhaps vex, ...
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Fantasy Alert: Patrick Mahomes 'Expected' to Target Mecole Hardman More in 2020 Kansas City Chiefs receiver Mecole Hardman could be in for a big second season in the NFL if he gets more looks as predicted. According to Nate Taylor of The Athletic, quarterback Patrick Mahomes is "expected to target Hardman more this upcoming ...
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Devin McCourty 'can't wait' to talk about Bill Belichick's Subway commercial shoot New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick recently was spotted in Connecticut filming a commercial for Subway, and it sounds like some of his players will be quick to bring up the topic when/if they report to training camp at Gillette Stadium later this ...
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Five questions facing the Heat entering the restart. One, what will the rotation look like? After more than four months since the season was suspended amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Miami Heat is on the verge of actually playing in a game. It's just a scrimmage, as the Heat (41-24) opens its three-game scrimmage schedule Wednesday night ...
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No rest for Man City ahead of Real Madrid showdown - Guardiola Pep Guardiola will not give Manchester City any time off between the end of the Premier League season and their crunch Champions League clash with Real Madrid. Europe's top competition represents City's remaining chance to add to their retained EFL ...
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Oblak to cost Chelsea €120m as Valencia show interest in Kepa Chelsea will have to pay Jan Oblak's €120 million (£110m/$137.5m) release clause to force contract talks, with Atletico Madrid keen to hold onto their prized asset. It remains unclear whether the 27-year-old would be ready to leave Atletico this summer, with ...
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Tracy McGrady, Jermaine O'Neal to launch new player representation agency There are former players who have had success as agents — BJ Armstrong right now, for example — but star players have not gotten into the representation game. Tracy McGrady and Jermaine O'Neal are changing that and opening their own firm. They got ...
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Notre Dame-Alabama And The 'Instant Classic' That Wasn't You've heard of the "instant classic," a game so good ESPN immediately re-runs it on one of its many broadcast avenues. Now along comes the "invisible classic," a rumored college football insta-matchup between Alabama and Notre Dame that disappeared ...
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Mark Cuban: NFL season will be more difficult to pull off than NBA's bubble Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban thinks the NBA is well positioned to conclude its season successfully in the Orlando bubble, but he says the NFL has a more difficult task ahead of itself. Cuban said that the NBA, by bringing only teams in playoff ...
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CIF announces high school sports season won't begin until December or January The start of the high school sports season in California will be delayed until December or January, the California Interscholastic Federation announced Monday. In releasing a new sports calendar, the state's governing body for high school sports might be ...
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Casey Mize hoping to stick with Tigers this season The Detroit Tigers are traveling to Cincinnati on Monday to play the Reds in exhibition games on Tuesday and Wednesday in preparation for their season-opening contest against the National League team on Friday. When the Tigers hit the road, Detroit ...
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Toronto Blue Jays Forced to Fly South: Unchecked Welcome to Major League Baseball's most embarrassing new team, the Buffalo Blue Jays. Or maybe it'll be the Pittsburgh Blue Jays. They haven't worked that part out yet. The only thing we know for sure is the team won't be playing in Toronto, as the ...
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Several Ravens join NFL players voicing concerns about safety as training camp nears Baltimore Ravens rookies are scheduled to report to training camp Tuesday, which would mark an unofficial beginning of a much-anticipated season for a team that returns a mass of talent and carries realistic Super Bowl aspirations. Several Ravens veterans ...
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Cricket's T20 World Cup Postponement Clears Space For The Delayed Indian Premier League Cricket's worst kept secret was confirmed on Monday. After months of speculation, this year's T20 World Cup in Australia has been officially postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Scheduled for October 18-November 15, it was supposed to be international ...
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Former skater sues coach, federation over alleged sexual abuse and coverup Craig Maurizi, a onetime Olympic hopeful turned Olympic coach, has filed a $10 million lawsuit against famed figure skating coach Richard Callaghan and a trio of skating institutions, including U.S. Figure Skating, the sport's national governing body.
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PGA Tour takeaways: Phil Mickelson laid up on a par 3? Is he kidding us? On Sunday, in the fourth round of the Memorial Tournament, Mickelson bombed a 369-yard drive, then putted from the fairway from 78 yards on the 447-yard, par-4 13th hole. His putt didn't reach the green. Hit hit a lovely flop for his third — shouldn't that have ...
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A different kind of ballgame: MLB 2020 season preview (Robert Carter / For The Times). After a nearly four-month delay, baseball is back.The 60-game 2020 MLB season promises to be one of the most unusual in the sport's storied history — empty ballparks, piped-in crowd noise and a slew of new rules and ...
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South Dakota high school sports: Task force recommends on-time start for all fall sports The South Dakota High School Activities Association's fall sports/activities task force is recommending that all state-sanctioned sports proceed as scheduled this fall. The committee's recommendation arrives as part of a 17-page document that outlines guiding ...
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England dominate final morning in bid to seal series-levelling win Ben Stokes' fearless hitting and more new-ball brilliance from Stuart Broad and Chris Woakes left England needing seven wickets at lunch on the final day of the second Test against the West Indies. Everything went to plan for the home side on the fifth ...
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Austin Dillon races his way into NASCAR playoffs FORT WORTH, Texas — Austin Dillon stayed in front after a restart with two laps to go and beat rookie teammate Tyler Reddick to the checkered flag at Texas, giving Richard Childress Racing its first 1-2 NASCAR Cup finish in nine years. With spectators ...
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Bob Costas Joins CNN as Contributor Costas joins CNN as live sports prepare to return after more than four months off-air due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Major League Baseball will return to play on Thursday, with the NBA set to return next week and the NFL expecting to kick off in ...
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The Lombardi Trophy has now been engraved with final score of Super Bowl LIV The Chiefs players and coaches hoisted the Lombardi Trophy at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, following their Super Bowl LIV win over the 49ers. On the trip back to Kansas City, tight end Travis Kelce drank a beer off the base of the trophy, ...
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Inter Miami CF loses again, out of tournament amid uncertainty of what is next It'll be a long 200-plus mile journey from Orlando back to Fort Lauderdale. Inter Miami CF quietly bowed out of the MLS is Back Tournament on Monday, losing to New York City FC 1-0. It marked the fifth straight loss for Inter Miami in its expansion season, ...
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Cubs get horrendous showing from Jharel Cotton in exhibition loss It wasn't what we're all familiar with but for the first time since last year, the Cubs played an actual game at Wrigley Field with a different team in the visitor's dugout. The bad news? The rival White Sox headed back to the South Side with an exhibition win.
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Canadiens' Max Domi: On ice Monday Domi (undisclosed) took the ice for Monday's training camp session, Renaud Lavoie of TVA Sports reports. Domi had been weighing his options on whether to participate in the postseason and it appears he has decided to play. The center should slot into a ...
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Toronto rugby league team withdraws from Europe's top league The Canadian rugby league team of New Zealand star Sonny Bill Williams withdrew from the Super League midway through its first season in Europe's top-tier competition on Monday, citing "overwhelming financial challenges" caused by the coronavirus ...
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Aston Villa vs Arsenal. Premier League. Watch Aston Villa vs Arsenal live on Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Main Event from 8pm; kick-off 8.15pm. Monday 20 July 2020 15:48, UK. Cedric receives instructions from Mikel Arteta. Image: Cedric Soares will return for Arsenal after being cup ...
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Fall sports pushed back for some Missouri Division II institutions The MIAA will delay the start of all intercollegiate athletic practices until the week of August 31, with the start of competition delayed until the week of September 28. Restrictions and limitations on student-athlete and coach activities prior to the August 31 start ...
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Players Push Back Against NFL Plans to Handle COVID-19 Risks With rookie training camps set to begin tomorrow, quarterbacks and injured players due back on Thursday, and all other players scheduled to report next Monday, the NFL outlined details of its coronavirus-related protocols last Friday. But over the weekend, ...
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Here's a new one: Jeremy Roenick sues NBC claiming 'anti-straight discrimination' Former Chicago Blackhawks standout Jeremy Roenick was fired from his job as an NBC Sports hockey commentator back in February after making lewd remarks about fellow hockey broadcasters Kathryn Tappen and Patrick Sharp on a podcast. Imagine if, in ...
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Solskjaer should be worried about 'unrecognisable' De Gea after more Man Utd mishaps – Neville The former Red Devils star admits that the mistakes which have crept into the game of a once reliable goalkeeper are becoming a cause for concern. Manchester United should be "worried" about "unrecognisable" David de Gea, says Phil Neville, with costly ...
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Jaylen Brown ends Boston Celtics' press conference with powerful message about Breonna Taylor's death Boston Celtics PR had dismissed Jaylen Brown from his Zoom call with the media on Sunday afternoon, and Brown started to stand, but he sat back down again. "Before I go, actually, I wanted to speak on Breonna Taylor," Brown said, looking into the camera.
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THE CHEAP SEATS with STEVE CAMERON: 'The beautiful game' as a cure for this @#$%&* virus You know what? I'm tired of writing about the novel coronavirus — and its effect on sports across the globe. For one thing, I don't see any novelty in it, not anymore. Besides, they've been playing soccer in Europe's largest leagues for weeks now — so far ...
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'He was unmatched': Robert Marawa pays tribute to Kaunda Ntunja The cause of Kaunda Ntunja's death is yet to be divulged and news of his sudden passing was confirmed by his family earlier on Monday. Kaunda Ntunja. Picture: @kaundantunja/Twitter. Robert Marawa · Kaunda Ntunja. Email; Print ...
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Notes: Braun a 'concern' for opener MILWAUKEE -- Brewers manager Craig Counsell expressed "concern" for the first time Monday about Ryan Braun's availability for Friday's Opening Day, as Braun was poised to miss a sixth straight day of intrasquad action. What's sidelining the ...
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Bruins Get Handful Of Players Back At Practice; Pastrnak, Kase Still Absent BOSTON (CBS) — In what is becoming a game away from the game, Bruins fans are keeping an eye on which players hit the practice ice on a daily basis. On Saturday, nine Bruins were deemed "unfit to participate," including some pretty big names. The good ...
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Kemba Walker has a promising update on his knee By 98.5 The Sports Hub Staff. Kemba Walker and head coach Brad Stevens both provided promising updates on the status of the Celtics point guard's knee over the weekend. Walker himself is focusing on the positives of the progress he's made in recent ...
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