Month: September 2018

12:42 AM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and his older brother, Yuli, have become the first brothers in major league history to have multihomer games on the same day. Toronto’s Lourdes Gurriel homered in the first and fourth innings Friday night in the Blue Jays‘ 11-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.
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11:07 PM ET After Baker Mayfield‘s starring role in ending the Cleveland Browns‘ winless streak on Thursday night, he chose to end his postgame news conference with a baseball shoutout. “Christian Yelich for NL MVP,” Mayfield said. Before the game, Mayfield showed up to FirstEnergy Stadium wearing Yelich’s Milwaukee Brewers jersey. The two became friends
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11:03 PM ET ESPN News Services Victor Martinez will be in the lineup for one final time Saturday in Detroit. The longtime Tigers slugger announced before Friday night’s 4-3 loss to the Royals that he will finish his 16-season career on Saturday. Martinez will sit out Sunday’s series finale against Kansas City and accompany the
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11:06 PM ET Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and former world champion Tyson Fury finalized their deal Friday night, and Premier Boxing Champions announced the fight would take place Dec. 1. It was a highly unusual announcement with a news release touting that “the contracts are signed and the fight is on,” and that the
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10:47 PM ET NEW YORK — Some have wondered why the NBA didn’t suspend Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban after an investigation found that male members of the organization harassed female Mavericks employees. Under new CEO Cynthia Marshall’s leadership, the Mavericks hired and promoted several women to executive positions, increasing the percentage filling those roles
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9:40 PM ET Marc J. Spears The Golden State Warriors have signed free-agent guard Tyler Ulis to an Exhibit 10 contract, a source told ESPN. Ulis, a 5-foot-10, 160-pound guard, picked the Warriors over the Houston Rockets and Sacramento Kings. Exhibit 10 contracts are one-year deals paying the minimum salary. They also can be used
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7:15 PM ET In 2009 and 2010, then-featherweight world titleholder Yuriorkis Gamboa and Juan Manuel “Juanma” Lopez, a junior featherweight world titlist who would move up in weight to win a featherweight belt, were rising pound-for-pound stars on a collision course boxing fans were salivating over. However, with both seeking big money that was not
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8:08 PM ET Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Steve Stricker shot a 7-under 63 on Friday to share the first-round lead at the Sanford International. The 51-year-old Stricker was 8 under through 17 holes at Minnehaha Country Club but closed with a bogey to fall into a tie with Jerry Smith, Brandt Jobe and
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