Month: January 2019

1:59 PM ET In the latest twist to the simmering controversy from last Sunday’s NFC Championship Game, there is some concern in league circles about the NFL’s judgment in allowing four game officials who live in Southern California to work the game between the Los Angeles Rams and New Orleans Saints, league sources told ESPN.
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2:09 PM ET Boston Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts said Saturday night that he won’t accompany his teammates when they visit the White House on May 9. “I won’t be going there,” Betts told The Boston Globe at the Baseball Writers Association of America awards dinner in New York. “I decided not to.” Betts, who
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7:00 AM ET One of the goals of the NHL All-Star Game is to put on an entertaining display of hockey in order to grab the attention of people who normally wouldn’t spend much of their free time watching the sport. Let’s say you were one of those folks and seek the most possible fun
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1:32 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN BOSTON — Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant is planning to travel to Oklahoma City for a March ceremony to retire the jersey of longtime Thunder teammate Nick Collison, Durant told ESPN. “That group was so special, that whole group from 2010 until I left there, it was special,” Durant
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6:01 PM ET Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul will return and start Sunday night against the Orlando Magic after a five-week absence because of a strained left hamstring. The Rockets, riding a historic hot streak by reigning MVP James Harden, managed to go 12-5 in the 17 games that Paul missed since suffering the injury
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1:39 PM ET An estimated crowd of 35,000 turned out at Gillette Stadium for the New England Patriots‘ Super Bowl rally Sunday morning, giving the team an emotional lift before boarding its flight to Atlanta. “This is an awesome crowd. Just tremendous. This is the biggest sendoff we’ve ever had,” coach Bill Belichick told those
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12:36 PM GMT “Gutted” coach Tim Walsh harbours hope Australia can repeat their heroics at this week’s Sydney Sevens rugby tournament despite falling flat on the final day of the Hamilton round. The Australians lost their quarter-final 24-17 to hosts New Zealand on Sunday and suffered a 24-14 defeat to Scotland in a classification game.
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10:02 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Two days before Sunday night’s Australian Open final, and after a nearly flawless semifinal drubbing of Frenchman Lucas Pouille, world No. 1 Novak Djokovic spent a considerable amount of his postmatch news conference dissecting the much-improved game of Rafael Nadal. “He has played impressively well throughout the entire tournament,”
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