Month: February 2020

6:00 AM ET ALAMEDA, Calif. — Al Davis was chastising reporters in a hotel lobby at the 2009 NFL owners meetings for not voting Jim Plunkett into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Davis wondered aloud which other quarterback with multiple Super Bowl titles had yet to be enshrined in Canton when some funny guy
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8:56 AM ET Vietnam Grand Prix organisers have insisted the country’s debut Formula One race will go ahead as planned despite the ongoing spread of coronavirus. Hanoi will host Vietnam’s first grand prix on April 5, two weeks before the Chinese Grand Prix was supposed to take place — the Shanghai event has been postponed
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8:32 AM ET ESPN News Services Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova has announced her retirement. “Tennis — I’m saying goodbye,” she wrote in an essay that appeared Wednesday in Vogue and Vanity Fair. Sharapova turned pro in 2001 at age 14. She won Wimbledon in 2004, the US Open in 2006, the Australian Open
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8:42 AM ET Georgia defensive lineman Devonte Wyatt was arrested late Tuesday night on a misdemeanor charge of family violence criminal trespass. Wyatt, a senior from Decatur, Georgia, was still being held at the Athens-Clarke County Jail on Wednesday. His bond was set at $1,500. “I’m disappointed in the misconduct that is outlined in the
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Feb 20, 2020 Formula One’s preseason continues on Thursday with the second day of testing at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya. ESSENTIAL READING RECAP LIVE BLOG (All Central European Time) Laurence Edmondson says: Stood trackside for the first time this year and the thing that strikes me the most is the noise from the Honda engine
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3:27 AM ET LOS ANGELES — After treating the crowd at Staples Center to a season-high 40 points in his first matchup against star rookie Zion Williamson, LeBron James strolled to the bench in the final moments of his team’s 118-109 win and enjoyed a treat of his own: some Red Vines candy. James snacked
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1:54 AM ET ESPN News Services The NFL moved closer to labor peace for another decade early Wednesday when player representatives voted to send a new deal already approved by the owners that includes a 17-game season to the full union membership. A simple majority of some 2,000 players must accept the agreement for it
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