Month: September 2019

2:29 PM ET The NBA G League is experimenting this season with a new rule under which all trips to the free throw line will include only a single foul shot that will be worth one, two or three points depending on the nature of the foul leading to the attempt, officials told ESPN. It
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2:15 PM ET Associated Press SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Joe Staley knows that starting a season with three straight wins assures the San Francisco 49ers of nothing. But for a franchise that has left followers looking ahead to next season, speculating about coaching changes and studying mock drafts in October the past four years, just
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1:56 PM ET Associated Press CINCINNATI — And this one belongs to Marty Brennaman. With fans applauding his every mention, the Hall of Fame broadcaster called his final Cincinnati Reds game Thursday, ending a 46-year career that has featured so many big stars and historic moments — Hank Aaron, the Big Red Machine, Pete Rose
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1:40 PM ET Associated Press Andy Murray‘s singles comeback hit another roadblock as he lost 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 to Alex De Minaur of Australia in the second round of the Zhuhai Championships on Thursday. Murray won his first tour-level match since having hip surgery in January when he beat Tennys Sandgren on Tuesday, but couldn’t
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1:35 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Welterweight world titlist Errol Spence Jr. has significant business to deal with in the form of fellow beltholder Shawn Porter, but that has not stopped Spence from talking about the bigger fights he wants. Spence and Porter meet to unify their 147-pound belts in one of the year’s most
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1:15 PM ET Light heavyweight titlist Dmitry Bivol has been scheduled to defend his crown on Oct. 12 for some time but on Thursday he finally got an opponent. Bivol will make his sixth title defense against Lenin Castillo in the co-feature of former undisputed cruiserweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk’s heavyweight debut against Tyrone Spong,
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1:11 PM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN Mixed martial arts fighter Katy Collins, who competed in Bellator as well as other promotions, died Wednesday at age 32 after suffering a brain aneurysm last week, her coach announced on social media. “The fight is over. You never stopped fighting, and we never gave up on you,” JT Tilley,
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