Month: December 2019

1:07 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers went the first two months of the season without losing a game at home. Then they lost two in the span of three days. And, after getting blown out by the Luka Doncic-less Dallas Mavericks 117-98 at Wells Fargo Center on Friday night, Joel Embiid
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12:04 AM ET Former two-time middleweight world titlist Daniel Jacobs made a successful debut in the super middleweight division as he made the overweight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. quit after the fifth round on Friday night at Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix. When the fight ended abruptly with Chavez, the favorite of the largely
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11:52 PM ET No. 4 Oklahoma will be without another key defensive starter for its bowl game next week. Safety Delarrin Turner-Yell has a broken collarbone and won’t play in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on Dec. 28 against No. 1 LSU, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg. Turner-Yell has been a key member of
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11:19 PM ET ESPN News Services Boston Celtics coach Brad Stevens honored a request from his daughter to “give the people what they want” in Friday night’s 114-93 victory over the Detroit Pistons. As Boston continued to expand the lead in the third quarter, some Celtics fans started chanting “We want Tacko!” — hoping rookie
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10:02 PM ET Minnesota Wild forward Jason Zucker will miss four to six weeks after having surgery to repair a fractured right fibula, general manager Bill Guerin said. Zucker underwent the procedure Friday at TRIA Orthopaedic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota. Zucker had missed the last two Wild games with the injury. He’s third on the
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9:44 PM ET Former New Orleans Saints receiver Joe Horn pleaded guilty Thursday to the count of “Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud” as part of a plea agreement related to the federal investigation into a group of ex-NFL players accused of defrauding the league’s health care benefit program. Horn was one of 12 players
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