7:33 PM ET The NFL suspended two players for stepping on opponents in two separate games on Sunday. Tennessee Titans defensive end Teair Tart and Cincinnati Bengals safety Shawn Williams were suspended for one game without pay for violations of unnecessary roughness and unsportsmanlike conduct rules, the league announced on Monday. Tart was deemed to
Month: December 2020
7:21 PM ET Saturday’s Ole Miss–Texas A&M football game has been postponed due to COVID-19 testing. According to a statement from the SEC, the postponement is a result of a combination of positive tests and contact tracing within the Ole Miss program. Rescheduling the game will be contingent on any cancellation of games currently scheduled
7:14 PM ET UNLV quarterback Max Gilliam has apologized for a less than above-board moment while appearing on the reality TV show “Below Deck” earlier this year. Gilliam, a senior from Thousand Oaks, California, apologized on Twitter for eating sushi off a nude model during an episode that aired last month and was reportedly filmed
3:14 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Last season, one of the most scrutinized things about a much-scrutinized Philadelphia 76ers team was which position Ben Simmons was playing. He began the season, as he had the prior two, as the team’s point guard. When the Sixers arrived inside the NBA’s bubble at the Walt Disney World Resort
6:16 PM ET Associated Press Portland Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts says a player was among the three people connected to the team who tested positive for the coronavirus. The player was not identified. The Blazers are set to tip off a four-game preseason schedule Friday with a game against the Sacramento Kings at the
3:10 PM ET Miami Heat All-Star center Bam Adebayo gave his mom the birthday present of a lifetime on Sunday. After years of struggling while living together in a single-wide trailer home, Adebayo bought his mom, Marilyn Blount, a home she can call her own. Just a couple weeks after signing a five-year max extension
6:55 PM ET ESPN News Services Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green and No. 2 overall draft pick James Wiseman missed Day 1 of the team’s training camp Monday. Coach Steve Kerr didn’t specify why the two were absent but did say they were the only two players not to take the court. Kerr said
5:01 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN In a memo sent to teams by the NBA Monday morning, the league laid out resting policies for the 2020-21 regular season — including granting significant flexibility to teams resting players in non-nationally televised games, particularly at the start of the season. The memo, which was obtained by ESPN, says
7:12 PM ET LOS ANGELES — LeBron James says that the most satisfying part of the two-year, $85 million contract extension he signed with the Los Angeles Lakers last week isn’t the money. It isn’t the fact that it assures him 20 seasons in the NBA. It isn’t the pride in knowing he’s worked hard
3:31 PM ET Houston Rockets coach Stephen Silas referred to disgruntled superstar James Harden’s absence from training camp as a holdout on Monday and said there is “no timetable” he is aware of for the perennial All-Star guard to report. After Harden missed Houston’s first team workout Sunday, Silas cited the NBA’s COVID-19 protocols as