Month: August 2019

7:07 PM ET Arkansas State head coach Blake Anderson is taking a leave of absence from the team while this wife, Wendy, battles cancer for the second time in the past three years, the school announced Monday. Defensive coordinator David Duggan will take over coaching duties during Anderson’s absence. “There’s been an outpouring of support
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7:00 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Twins slugger Nelson Cruz was reinstated from the injured list Monday after the minimum 10-day stay and will play through a ruptured tendon in his left wrist. Cruz ruptured the tendon Aug. 8, and the Twins feared he would miss significant time. But the team later learned
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7:02 PM ET Associated Press Dale Earnhardt Jr. says his family is “truly blessed” that nobody was seriously injured when his plane crash-landed last week in Tennessee. The retired NASCAR driver, now a television analyst, issued a statement Monday on social media praising the “quick response of my pilots, local law enforcement, emergency personnel and
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6:39 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Aaron Rodgers returned to practice on Monday after skipping last week’s preseason game in Baltimore and the practice that immediately followed because of tightness in his back, something he’s rarely — if ever — been bothered by in the past. That doesn’t necessarily mean the Green Bay Packers
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6:25 PM ET If Tiger Woods is to be a playing captain at this year’s Presidents Cup in Australia, it will mean a complete buy-in from the eight automatic qualifiers on the team and his assistant captains. Woods said Monday that although the final decision remains his, he won’t participate as a player unless that
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6:10 PM ET ESPN News Services The Atlanta Braves claimed outfielder Billy Hamilton off waivers from the Kansas City Royals, the team announced Monday. Hamilton, 28, hit .236 with four homers and 29 RBIs this year as his stolen base total dropped to 34. He swiped 56 bases in 2014 and increased his total by
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6:01 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman, who missed the first three-and-a-half weeks of training camp with a thumb injury, was removed from the non-football injury list, a source told ESPN’s Field Yates. Edelman participated in his first practice Monday, and immediately shoots to the top of the receiver
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4:53 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Boston Red Sox ace Chris Sale will miss the remainder of the regular season with a left elbow injury but is expected to avoid Tommy John surgery after a second opinion from
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