Month: December 2020

1:54 AM ET Louisiana head coach Billy Napier raised a lot of eyebrows Friday night when he decided to take a safety from his team’s own 35-yard-line with a five-point lead late in the fourth quarter against Appalachian State. When asked about the decision after the Ragin’ Cajuns held on for a 24-21 win, Napier
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7:28 PM ET Kawhi Leonard said he loves the challenge of bouncing back from the LA Clippers‘ stunning 3-1 NBA playoff series collapse to the Denver Nuggets and will see “how strong” the Clippers are. As the Clippers prepare to start training camp Sunday, Leonard and Paul George discussed the team’s failure to live up
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10:35 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Anthony Davis said he signed the lengthiest contract he possibly could to stay with the Los Angeles Lakers — inking a five-year, $190 million pact Thursday — in part as an insurance policy should he suffer a career-threatening injury. “That could have been a two-year, three-year deal,” Davis told
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7:49 PM ET Associated Press Major League Baseball and all 30 of its teams are suing their insurance providers, citing billions of dollars in losses during the 2020 season played almost entirely without fans due to the coronavirus pandemic. The suit, filed in October in California Superior Court in Alameda County and obtained Friday by
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9:55 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Yankees pitchers Zack Britton and Gerrit Cole, free-agent catcher Jason Castro, Cleveland shortstop Francisco Lindor and free-agent shortstop Marcus Semien were elected Friday to the executive subcommittee of the Major League Baseball Players Association. They join St. Louis pitcher Andrew Miller, free-agent pitcher James Paxton and Washington
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9:58 PM ET The New York Yankees say infielder Gio Urshela is expected to be sidelined three months after having surgery Friday to remove a bone chip in his right elbow. According the Yankees, Urshela had the surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital by head team physician Dr. Christopher Ahmad. Urshela, 29, dealt with the bone chip
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6:39 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Billy Joe Saunders stayed in contention to face Saul “Canelo” Alvarez by retaining his world super-middleweight title via a slick, unanimous points win over
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