Month: January 2020

7:17 PM ET Graham HaysespnW.com Close Graham Hays covers college sports for espnW, including softball and soccer. Hays began with ESPN in 1999. CORVALLIS, Ore. — Fighting back tears that had nothing to do with the history she and her team had made minutes earlier, Oregon senior Sabrina Ionescu dedicated her season to Kobe Bryant
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7:13 PM ET ORLANDO — Lamar Jackson headed to Orlando for the Pro Bowl with one goal in mind: Soak up as much as he could. That meant not the Central Florida sunshine (which finally appeared on Friday) but any and all information from the rest of the Pro Bowlers. Although he’s likely going to
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6:42 PM ET COSTA MESA, Calif. — John Altobelli, a highly successful baseball coach at Orange Coast College, was among the victims of the helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant on Sunday morning. Altobelli died alongside his wife, Keri, and his 13-year-old daughter, Alyssa, the family confirmed to ESPN. The three were traveling
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6:42 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Madelene Sagstrom won the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, birdieing the par-3 17th to tie for the lead and winning with a par when Nasa Hataoka missed a 3-footer on the final hole. Sagstrom finished with a 2-under
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6:04 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — What started as just another Pro Bowl quickly turned into a tribute to NBA legend Kobe Bryant. News that Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among several people killed in a helicopter crash Sunday morning in California broke shortly before the Pro Bowl game began. The players found out
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5:13 PM ET MIAMI — The Kansas City Chiefs arrived at the site of Super Bowl LIV with some players wearing Hawaiian shirts in apparent tribute to head coach Andy Reid, who favors the fashion. Reid left the Chiefs’ chartered aircraft at Miami international Airport wearing a suit. Travis Kelce was among the Chiefs players
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3:53 PM ET Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among five people killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, on Sunday, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Bryant was 41. Drafted 13th overall in 1996 out of Lower Merion High School outside of Philadelphia, Bryant was a five-time NBA champion, a two-time
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