Month: March 2019

6:40 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Chicago forward Lauri Markkanen missed the Bulls‘ game Wednesday night against the Portland Trail Blazers after remaining overnight in Toronto because of what the team called “extreme fatigue.” Markkanen was evaluated in the training room by the Bulls’ medical staff and Toronto’s team physician after exiting in the
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6:32 PM ET UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones will make his next title defense against Thiago Santos at UFC 239 on July 6 in Las Vegas, UFC president Dana White told ESPN. The 205-pound bout will headline the pay-per-view event, which will take place at T-Mobile Arena. Additional sources confirmed bout agreements have not
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6:00 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. — All it took were some beef-and-cheese taquitos and 10-for-$2 mini-tacos from 7-Eleven to seal National League Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom‘s $137.5 million deal with the New York Mets. OK, well, not quite. “I only had a couple bites,” deGrom said with a smile Wednesday at
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5:17 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Good but unexceptional veterans must realize teams find them less valuable in the age of analytics, Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred maintained ahead of season openers. Players have expressed anger following the second straight slow free-agent market, one that saw record deals for top stars and plummeting prices
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5:28 PM ET Former Texas Longhorns running back Kyle Porter has transferred to Houston Cougars, the school announced on Wednesday. Porter, who played 27 games with the Longhorns, has two years of eligibility remaining and will be eligible this season after he graduates from Texas this summer. The Katy (Texas) High School product was the
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4:18 PM ET Welterweight world titleholder Errol Spence Jr.’s shutout decision over four-division titleholder Mikey Garcia in a meeting of two of boxing’s pound-for-pound best generated more than 360,000 pay-per-view buys, a source with knowledge of the sales told ESPN. Spence, who retained his title for the third time, easily defeated Garcia, a reigning lightweight
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4:38 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Roger Federer is finally through to the quarterfinals of the Miami Open. The fourth-seeded Federer had little trouble defeating 13th-seeded Daniil Medvedev 6-4, 6-2 in 61 minutes on Wednesday, earning the three-time Miami champion a spot in the quarters against sixth-seeded Kevin Anderson. The Federer-Medvedev match
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