Month: January 2020

6:44 PM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Los Angeles Lakers coach Frank Vogel said the nightmare that the franchise has endured since Kobe Bryant’s tragic death will not affect his team’s cohesion amid the dream season the Lakers have enjoyed up to this point. “I don’t think it can break us apart in any way,”
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5:56 PM ET New York Jets All-Pro safety Jamal Adams believes he has earned a new contract — and he expects to get one before the start of the 2020 season. Eligible to renegotiate, Adams tweeted Wednesday that he and the Jets have engaged in “small discussions thus far, not in detailed talk yet, just
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5:32 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Reliever Greg Holland is back with the Kansas City Royals, agreeing Wednesday to a minor league contract. The 34-year-old right-hander would get a one-year, $1.25 million deal if added to the 40-man roster, plus the chance to earn performance bonuses. Holland was 1-2 with a 4.54
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4:47 PM ET ESPN News Services Dusty Baker has been hired as the new manager of the Houston Astros, owner Jim Crane announced Wednesday. The deal is for one year and includes a team option for the 2021 season, a source told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Wednesday. Baker will be formally introduced by the team
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4:28 PM ET Carmelo Anthony is hoping his stay in Portland lasts longer than this season. The veteran forward, who’s on a one-year, $2.2 million deal with the team, told the Portland Tribune earlier this week that he’s hoping to finish his career with the Trail Blazers. “I would love to stay,” he said as
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4:43 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Amy Bockerstette returned to the 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale Wednesday, about a year after she made a par on the famous hole that catapulted her to instant celebrity, and walked off the green with a donation that’ll help kick-start her foundation. Bockerstette, a disabilities advocate with Down syndrome,
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4:39 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — The fiancee of former NFL tight end Aaron Hernandez spoke publicly for the first time since the release of a documentary series examining his life more than two years after he killed himself in his prison cell. Hernandez’s fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins, said in an interview with ABC’s “Good
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4:24 PM ET MIAMI — The NFL has a minority-coach-hiring problem, and commissioner Roger Goodell knows it. Goodell held his annual Super Bowl week news conference Wednesday, and one of the questions he fielded was about the lack of opportunity for minority coaches. Of the five teams with head coach openings this offseason, The Washingon
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3:14 PM ET UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and rival Jorge Masvidal had to be separated after an exchange Wednesday on Super Bowl radio row in Miami. Usman and Masvidal, who have been linked as potential future opponents, ran into one another between radio interviews. Usman provoked Masvidal, saying “do something” repeatedly. The two have
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