Month: December 2019

11:33 PM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN PITTSBURGH — For just the second time in the past 20 years, the Buffalo Bills are playoff-bound. The Bills secured at least an AFC Wild Card berth Sunday in a 17-10 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, marking coach Sean McDermott’s second playoff berth in his three seasons in Buffalo —
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11:11 PM ET A pair of last-play bad beats benefited the betting public for a change and had bookmakers going “Oh, no” on another wild NFL Sunday. The Philadelphia Eagles, who were 6.5-point favorites over the Washington Redskins, took a four-point lead with 26 seconds to play and then returned a fumble 47 yards for
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11:06 PM ET Associated Press The U.S. Military Academy and Naval Academy have appointed officers to conduct separate internal investigations into possible “white power” hand gestures flashed by a few students during a broadcast at the Army-Navy football game, academy public affairs officers said Sunday. “Based on findings of the investigation, those involved will be
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10:13 PM ET OAKLAND — The jeers were noticeable as Derek Carr jogged to the Black Hole to thank fans for the support they had shown him since arriving to the Oakland Raiders as a second-round draft pick in 2014. And after fans showered the quarterback’s scrum with beer, soda and assorted trash, the boos
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10:12 PM ET With the three best free-agent starters already signed, Madison Bumgarner had risen to the top of the remaining crop, as he and Hyun-Jin Ryu were clearly better than the other starting pitchers still on the market. Bumgarner seemed like an ideal fit for a number of contenders, including the Los Angeles Angels.
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8:22 AM ET When real plus-minus debuted on ESPN.com’s NBA page in April 2014, then-Golden State Warriors reserve Draymond Green had yet to crack double-digit NBA starts. His breakthrough performance in the opening round of the 2014 playoffs, starting in place of injured center Andrew Bogut, was a few weeks away. Over the next five
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8:07 PM ET Former four-division world titleholder Mikey Garcia used the occasion of his 32nd birthday Sunday to announce that he will return to the ring Feb. 29 to fight in the main event of a DAZN-streamed card under a deal he has made with promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing. Terms of the agreement
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