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Josh Evans, Tennessee Titans defensive tackle in 2000 Super Bowl, dies at 48 after battle with cancer Evans died Thursday night in Fayetteville, Georgia, one year after he was diagnosed with kidney cancer. His death was confirmed to The Associated Press by Willie Watkins Funeral Home in Riverdale, Georgia, which is handling arrangements.
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Ex-NBA All-Star Terry Porter out as Portland Pilots head coach Assistant coach Ben Johnson will take over on an interim basis until the end of the season. Porter has been the Pilots' head coach since 2016 and has struggled to turn the program around since taking over ...
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Bracketology: Villanova holds on to final No. 1 seed in new NCAA Tournament bracket projection That said, I have a hard time believing that a record of one game above .500 will be good enough five weeks from now. Maryland is going to have to do better than play hit-and-miss basketball down the stretch.
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Cowboys Catch-Up: Senior to Super – Time To Bowl Dallas native Matthew Stafford is on his way to Los Angeles. · It was no secret that Jason Witten wanted to get into coaching when his career playing in the NFL was over.
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Frank Gore would love to play for 49ers again Gore was a guest on 95.7 The Game Friday and was asked about the prospect of returning to the 49ers for the 2021 season. Gore was a 49ers 2005 third-round pick and ran for 11,073 of his 16,000 career yards while with the team. He's set for free agency after ...
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Ron Rivera on why Chase Young should win Defensive Rookie of the Year While Young has cemented himself as one of the brightest young stars in the NFL, his head coach, Ron Rivera, gave his argument for why the 21-year-old should come away with some hardware Saturday night.
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How Kelly Oubre has blocked out noise amid up-and-down Warriors season It hasn't been the smoothest start to Kelly Oubre's tenure with the Warriors. Significant struggles on the offensive end and inconsistency wasn't what fans were hoping for when the organization dipped into the luxury tax to acquire the 25-year-old in the wake of ...
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Leonhard Might Be Among Defensive Coordinator Finalists LaFleur, as offensive coordinator of the Rams, spent the 2017 season with Barry and Evero. With their season extending deep into January after reaching the NFC Championship Game, the Packers are the only team looking ...
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Jonathan Schoop to rejoin Detroit Tigers on 1-year, $4.5M deal, sources say Schoop paid dividends for the Tigers after signing a one-year deal last offseason, providing solid defense up the middle in 2020 while hitting .278 with 23 RBIs and eight home runs, which ranked second on the team.
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Winning tips for ESPN's 'Tennis Major Pick'em: Melbourne' contest What is it? It's a free-to-play game, where you take a few minutes to answer a series of questions related to the upcoming Australian Open tennis Grand Slam event, which starts on Monday, Feb. 8, and ends Sunday, Feb. 21.
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Super Bowl LV: How the price of commercials rose over the years Super Bowl VIII featured arguably the first "big" commercial in 1974. New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath and Charlie's Angels star Farrah Fawcett starred in a shaving cream ad for Noxzema. It cost $42,000 to produce and $103,500 to air – more than double ...
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Bucks high-powered offense propelled by fast break The Milwaukee Bucks have been on the run all season. Milwaukee leads the NBA with 17.0 fast-break points per game, levels above the league average of 12.9. Memphis (16.4) ranks second and Toronto is third with 16.2 per contest. In his first season with ...
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Bayern Munich beat Hertha Berlin in the snow to go 10 clear in Germany Bayern Munich were unaffected by heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures as they beat hosts Hertha Berlin 1-0 to go 10 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga on Friday with their fifth consecutive league victory. Winger Kingsley Coman scored the winner ...
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Matthew NeSmith, Mark Hubbard share Phoenix Open lead With attendance capped at about 5,000 at sunny TPC Scottsdale — a fraction of the usual turnout but the most for a PGA Tour event since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — the Waste Management Phoenix Open opened Thursday with some very different ...
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Clippers-Nets Brings In High TV Ratings It makes sense that a game involving Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, Kevin Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving would draw in a lot of eyeballs—that's essentially half of an All-Star game. It also helped that the game was close and exciting, coming down to the ...
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Carolina Hurricanes add former captain Justin Williams as special adviser to GM "The knowledge that he brings just getting off the ice a short time ago is going to be very valuable for us," team president and general manager Don Waddell said Friday in a virtual news conference.
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Would Carson Wentz make sense for the Bears? Yes and no Almost a week after Matthew Stafford and Jared Goff came off the trade market, another veteran quarterback is up for debate: the Eagles' Carson Wentz. Thursday, NFL Network reported that teams had begun calling the Eagles about trading the former No.
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Containing Illinois guard Ayo Dosunmu a massive test for Wisconsin's defense CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Containing Ayo Dosunmu and the Illinois offense already was difficult, a painful lesson the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team learned last season. It's become even more challenging now that Dosunmu has added to his game ...
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Should transgender women be banned from women's college, high school sports? Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, led 13 of his GOP Senate colleagues in introducing the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, a bill that he says would protect athletic opportunities for female athletes.
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Devin McCourty called Danny Amendola's 'Patriot Way' comments 'a little bit of a slap in the face' By Hayden Bird Boston.com,Updated February 5, 2021, 12:55 p.m..
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Remember when the Falcons made Brady look old? It was third-and-6, his team already 14 points in arrears. He thought he had Danny Amendola, working one of those "rub" routes, one-on-one against Brian Poole. Brady didn't see the lurking Robert Alford until the oft-penalized cornerback burst in front of ...
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Syracuse lacrosse expectations are plainly stated: 'We're not happy with a Final Four' Syracuse, N.Y. — Expectations can't get any higher as the Syracuse men's lacrosse team prepares for the 2021 season with a stacked roster and a sour taste after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered a championship-contender last March. The Orange were ...
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SB Nation Reacts: Did the Rockets get enough for James Harden? We asked our Houston voters if they thought new GM Rafael Stone got enough in return in the James Harden deal, and here's the verdict: I ...
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The top 16 players in the NFC West who are 25 or younger next season On the very first day of this century, January 1, 2000, Tom Brady played in his final college football game. With little regard for the Y2K disaster that would bring humanity to its knees, Brady led Michigan to a 35-34 overtime win over Alabama in the Orange ...
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No. 9 OU Hosts Iowa State Saturday Oklahoma has lost consecutive games on only one occasion this season (on the road at Baylor and Kansas) and a win on Saturday would set the Sooners up in a strong position heading into another grueling portion of their Big 12 schedule.
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Bevo's Daily Roundup: Texas' 2021 recruiting class is No. 17 nationally, second in Big 12 But that's nothing new – Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley has been having a moment. Hopefully newly hired Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian can influence that in the future. WHAT THE WISE MEN ARE SAYING ABOUT ...
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Charlotte Hornets: Utah Jazz Game Preview and What to Watch For The Hornets will hope to take advantage of Utah on the second night of a back-to-back, but it'll still be a tall order—the Jazz leads not only the Western Conference but the entire NBA in win percentage at 16-5.
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Fans (and Beer) Rally to Put Former Raiders Coach Tom Flores in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Tom Flores won 97 games as an NFL head coach. That's more than Jimmy Johnson, Bill Walsh and Vince Lombardi. He also coached the Raiders to two Super Bowl wins, the same number of rings as Johnson and Lombardi. And yet we have to ask the ...
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Game 16 Preview: at #1 Louisville LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Last time Niele Ivey was on the Notre Dame sidelines against Louisville, the Irish were hoisting the 2019 ACC Tournament title. Now, the Karen & Kevin Keyes Family head coach prepares her squad for a showdown against the No. 1 team in ...
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Duquesne game against VCU postponed due to positive COVID-19 test Duquesne's scheduled contest on Sunday against VCU at the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse was postponed Friday because one of the Dukes' players tested positive for COVID-19. Head coach Keith Dambrot told reporters about the cancellation via a Zoom ...
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Hunter Maldonado, newest member of Wyoming's 1000-point club, has revenge on mind after another CSU loss Wyoming guard Hunter Maldonado shoots over Colorado State's David Roddy during their game Thursday at the Arena-Auditorium in Laramie. Maldonado scored 14 points in the Cowboys' 74-72 loss to surpass 1,000 points for his career.
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Panthers' Owen Tippett: Joins active roster Tippett stuck with the taxi squad for Thursday's game against Nashville, but he could rejoin Florida's lineup for Friday's rematch with the Predators. The 21-year-old rookie has gone scoreless in five games this campaign.
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Back to BJC Friday Night for Men's Basketball Against Maryland UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State men's basketball team (6-8, 3-7) welcomes Maryland (10-8, 4-7) for a 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5 game in the Bryce Jordan Center. This first meeting of the season series between the Nittany Lions and the Terps will be ...
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Huskers Return to Action at Michigan State The Nebraska men's basketball program returns from a prolonged absence on Saturday night as the Huskers travel to East Lansing, Mich., to take on the Michigan State Spartans. Tipoff between the Huskers and Spartans from the Breslin Center is slated for ...
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3-star running back Jarquez Hunter signs with Auburn Out of Neshoba Central High School in Philadelphia, Mississippi, Hunter is listed at 5-foot-10 and 190 pounds. He is rated as the No. 36 running back in the 2021 class, according to 247Sports composite rankings.
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Sacramento faces conference rival Denver BOTTOM LINE: De'Aaron Fox and the Sacramento Kings host Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets. The Kings are 4-9 in Western Conference games. Sacramento ...
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Braves Need To Start Acting Like a World Series Contender Trevor Bauer and the Dodgers pulled the switcheroo of the MLB offseason on Friday. It appeared that the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner was about to sign with the division rival Mets, but in the eleventh hour the Dodgers swooped in to steal him away.
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Rock-M-Tology: A lot of movement, but Mizzou stays put on the three seed line The Missouri Tigers did what they needed to do on Wednesday night and took care of business against Kentucky, setting up a game with much bigger implications against Alabama on Saturday (okay, well that felt weird to type). All in all, Mizzou's best-case ...
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