Month: July 2018

1:26 AM ET Associated Press SPARTA, Ky. — Christopher Bell couldn’t have started any worse in Friday night’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race, and that made his impressive victory all the more satisfying. Bell, who started from the back of the field after spinning his No. 20 Toyota during qualifying, steadily worked his way up the
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1:04 AM ET The Dallas Mavericks and guard Yogi Ferrell are “on the 1-yard line” of getting a deal done, a source told ESPN. The Mavs rescinded their $2.9 million qualifying offer to Ferrell on Friday, making him an unrestricted free agent. The source said, however, that the team considered the qualifying offer “a placeholder”
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11:55 PM ET Washington Nationals manager Davey Martinez said he will talk to center fielder Bryce Harper about failing to run out a ground ball in the fifth inning of the team’s 4-2 loss to the New York Mets on Friday night. “That’s a conversation I’ll have with Bryce tomorrow,” Martinez said. The stage was
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2:53 AM ET Carlo Pamintuan A year after his last professional fight, Manny Pacquiao proved that making the welterweight limit is still not a problem for him as he weighed in a full pound below the limit at 146 pounds at the official weigh-in held at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre in Kuala
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11:29 PM ET Michigan State will install interim athletic director Bill Beekman as the permanent head of the athletic department, a source told ESPN, confirming news that was first reported Friday by the Detroit Free Press. Beekman has served as the university’s interim athletic director since February, shortly after Mark Hollis retired from his position.
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9:52 PM ET Associated Press SILVIS, Illinois — Michael Kim took a four-shot lead Friday at the John Deere Classic in the Quad Cities, which was suspended twice because of weather concerns. Kim, who is winless in 84 career PGA Tour starts, was 16 under through 35 holes, with the second round to be completed
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10:42 PM ET Joet Gonzalez remained undefeated following a 10-round split decision over Tijuana’s Rafael Rivera in a close, hard-fought featherweight bout Friday. The match was the main event of a Golden Boy on ESPN card at the Novo at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles. Rivera (25-2-1, 1 NC, 16 KOs) attacked the body
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9:34 PM ET ESPN News Services WHEATON, Ill. — Laura Davies and Trish Johnson had a talk about avoiding double bogey at Chicago Golf Club in the U.S. Senior Women’s Open. Neither could do it, but Davies and Johnson recovered from rough spells early in their rounds on Friday to share the lead at the
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