Month: January 2020

11:02 PM ET NBA Insiders Zion Williamson‘s NBA debut with the New Orleans Pelicans is here. Williamson’s surgery to fix the meniscus in his right knee happened on Oct. 21, the day before the Pelicans opened the 2019-20 season against the Toronto Raptors. The original timeline for Williamson was six-to-eight weeks, which would have put
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10:09 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jaguars have hired former Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden as their offensive coordinator, the team announced Wednesday. The Redskins fired Gruden in October after an 0-5 start in his sixth season. He led the Redskins to a 35-49-1 record that included an NFC East title and playoff appearance
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10:09 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars are close to hiring former Washington Redskins head coach Jay Gruden as their offensive coordinator, league sources told ESPN. A deal, which NFL Network first reported as being close to completion, is likely to be finalized on Wednesday. Marrone also interviewed former NFL head coaches Ben
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9:44 PM ET DALLAS — Mavericks starting center Dwight Powell suffered a ruptured right Achilles tendon early in the first quarter of Tuesday night’s 110-107 loss to the LA Clippers, the team announced Wednesday. The Mavericks said Powell is weighing his surgical options. No timetable was announced, but the fear Tuesday was that the injury
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9:44 PM ET DALLAS — Mavericks center Dwight Powell suffered a right Achilles injury in the first quarter of Tuesday night’s game against the LA Clippers, collapsing to the ground without contact. Powell did not return to the game, which the Mavs lost 110-107. A torn Achilles probably would sideline Powell for the rest of
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8:56 PM ET ESPN News Services MELBOURNE, Australia — Coco Gauff has beaten Sorana Cirstea 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 to set up a third-round match against defending champion Naomi Osaka at the Australian Open. The 15-year-old Gauff rallied after losing the first set and got the pivotal service break in the next-to-last game before serving out
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9:09 PM ET Associated Press WACO, Texas — New Baylor coach Dave Aranda has hired one of his former bosses as the new defensive coordinator of the Bears. Ron Roberts spent the past two seasons as defensive coordinator at Louisiana-Lafayette, which ranked 18th nationally this season allowing only 19.7 points per game. That was after
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8:50 PM ET New York forward Artemi Panarin, the Rangers’ leading scorer and potentially the biggest offseason addition of any team in the NHL, missed Tuesday’s game vs. the New York Islanders with an upper-body injury. Panarin, signed by the Rangers in July after he led the Columbus Blue Jackets to the playoffs, has 26
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8:14 PM ET Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The death of a former Mississippi State football player whose body was found in an Alabama home Tuesday is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said. Birmingham police told news outlets that De’Runnya Wilson, 25, was found unresponsive inside a south-side Birmingham home by a relative Tuesday
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7:10 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Free agent outfielder Marcell Ozuna and the Atlanta Braves reached an $18 million, one-year deal Tuesday that puts him on the team he helped beat in the playoffs last October. Ozuna hit .429 with two home runs for the St. Louis Cardinals in their five-game win over the
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