Month: January 2019

12:02 AM ET HOUSTON — Less than 48 hours after clinching a second national championship in three years, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney took home some more hardware. Swinney was named the Bear Bryant Coach of the Year on Wednesday night following the Tigers’ historic 15-0 season that was capped Monday by a dominating 44-16 win
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11:46 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving said Wednesday that a team meeting following a loss against the Milwaukee Bucks on Dec. 21 was necessary for the Celtics to clear the air within their locker room, and helped lead to a stretch that has seen Boston win seven of its
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11:51 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Free-agent catcher Yasmani Grandal agreed to a one-year, $18.25 million deal with the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday, league sources told ESPN, joining the reigning National League Central champions on a short-term deal
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11:14 PM ET The Oakland A’s expect Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray to declare for the 2019 NFL draft before Monday’s deadline, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, citing multiple sources. Murray, a two-sport star, was chosen by the A’s with the ninth pick of the MLB draft in 2018 and signed a $4.66 million contract in
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10:49 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Pro Bowl outside linebacker Thomas Davis plans to play at least one more season, but it won’t be for the Carolina Panthers. Davis, 35, announced Wednesday night in a video on social media that the Panthers informed him on Monday they were going in “a different direction at the
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10:18 PM ET The time is near for undisputed cruiserweight champion and 2018 ESPN.com fighter of the year Oleksandr Usyk to make a decision on what comes next for him, and it is not necessarily the move up to heavyweight that most expected. After Usyk, the 2012 Olympic heavyweight gold medalist for Ukraine, won the
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