Month: September 2019

11:13 PM ET Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford is active Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs, though he is dealing with a lot of pain. Stafford’s name made a surprise appearance on the Lions’ injury report Friday as questionable because of a hip injury. A source told ESPN’s Dan Graziano that Stafford’s issue is actually
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11:13 PM ET ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford is expected to play Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs, though he is dealing with a lot of pain, sources told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler and Adam Schefter. Stafford’s name made a surprise appearance on the Lions’ injury report Friday as questionable because of
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9:53 PM ET No college football team ranked in the AP Top 10 lost, but only one of them was truly tested. How will Saturday’s top games affect the College Football Playoff chase? What are the current odds for making the top four? The Allstate Playoff Predictor has the answers. Check back every week as
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10:29 PM ET ESPN News Services Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander reached a pair of milestones Saturday night, becoming the 18th major league pitcher to reach 3,000 career strikeouts and the 19th in the modern era (since 1900) to record 300 strikeouts in a season. Verlander, 36, entered Saturday night’s game against the Los Angeles
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10:36 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby left the Pittsburgh Penguins‘ preseason finale against the Buffalo Sabres in the first period Saturday after taking a shot off his skate. Hit by a shot from Sabres defenseman Marco Scandella, Crosby played on for 6 minutes, 42 seconds before leaving. Pittsburgh forward Bryan Rust left
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9:51 PM ET Arizona quarterback Khalil Tate and running back J.J. Taylor will not play against UCLA on Saturday night due to injuries, Wildcats coach Kevin Sumlin said. True freshman quarterback Grant Gunnell will start in place of Tate, Sumlin confirmed. Gunnell set Texas state records for both passing yards (16,108 yards) and passing touchdowns
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10:00 PM ET ESPN News Services WINNIPEG, Manitoba — The Winnipeg Jets re-signed restricted free-agent forward Kyle Connor on Saturday to a seven-year, $50 million deal. Connor’s deal carries an average annual value of $7.14 million. The 22-year-old just completed his three-year entry-level deal that had a $925,000 cap hit. He was the final player
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9:46 PM ET Associated Press NAPA, Calif. — Even as he bolted to the top of the leaderboard at the Safeway Open, Cameron Champ‘s mind was elsewhere. Champ’s grandfather, Mack, is in hospice battling stomach cancer and the family has been commuting back and forth between the tournament and his hometown of Sacramento, about 65
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9:31 PM ET CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — This was supposed to be like every other Clemson game this season, a blowout win piled onto another blowout win on its easy road back to the College Football Playoff. After all, the No. 1 Tigers went into their matchup against unranked North Carolina as 28-point favorites, and
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