Month: May 2019

4:59 PM ET LAKE FOREST, Ill. — After four straight seasons of double-digit sacks, former NFL Defensive Player of the Year Khalil Mack has set his sights on being the best pass-rushing outside linebacker of all time. “I want to be the best to play the game,” Mack said after the Chicago Bears‘ OTAs on
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7:00 AM ET It appears Phil Kessel has worn out his welcome in Pittsburgh. According to a report from The Athletic, the Penguins are looking to deal the scoring winger. Pittsburgh and the Minnesota Wild were reportedly in the process of a trade that would primarily send Jason Zucker to the Steel City and Kessel
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4:37 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Odell Beckham Jr. has a new team and a new ride. The star wide receiver has purchased a tricked-out, orange Rolls-Royce complete with a pop-up hood ornament that features a miniaturized model of him in a Browns uniform making one of the one-handed catches he became known for
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4:23 PM ET The NBA spoke to the Toronto Raptors during the Eastern Conference finals about Drake’s activity and presence on the sideline, a league spokesman told ESPN. Last year, the NBA warned the rapper, who is also a global ambassador for the Raptors, after a confrontation with then-Cavaliers center Kendrick Perkins during a playoff
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7:00 AM ET The great free-agent freeze of 2018-19 is still going on even as summer approaches — Dallas Keuchel and Craig Kimbrel, after all, remain unsigned — but two months into the season is a good time to look back on what transpired in the offseason and give some early grades. Here are some
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3:54 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN New Orleans Pelicans All-Star Anthony Davis and David Griffin discussed the new executive vice president’s vision for the franchise over breakfast in Los Angeles on Wednesday, league sources told ESPN. Davis, who requested a trade in January, and Griffin, who was hired in April, are expected to continue a dialogue
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3:45 PM ET Jesse Hart, a two-time super middleweight world title challenger, will move up to the light heavyweight division to take on former world title challenger Sullivan Barrera, Top Rank announced on Wednesday. The scheduled 10-round fight will serve as the co-feature of the previously announced Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ main event between
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3:02 PM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio — Attorneys representing more than three dozen former Ohio State male student-athletes, including at least 26 Buckeyes football players, filed a Title IX lawsuit against the university Wednesday, alleging OSU officials didn’t do enough to stop a sports medicine director who allegedly sexually assaulted the men while conducting preseason physical
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