Month: May 2020

12:19 AM ET When Timberwolves president Gersson Rosas set about assembling a front-office staff in Minnesota in 2019, he was insistent that the group include a doctor who specialized in medicine and technology. Rosas was looking for someone analytical who could help the Timberwolves use data to optimize the health of players. Rosas eventually hired
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9:16 PM ET Associated Press The Texas Rangers would prefer to stay home in their new ballpark instead of returning to Arizona whenever it is time for them to get back to spring training. They still haven’t played a game or had an organized workout in their $1.2 billion stadium with a retractable roof. Spring
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7:42 PM ET The Washington Nationals will unveil their 2019 World Series rings in a virtual event on Sunday, the team announced. The Nationals said the hourlong event, which starts at 7 p.m. ET, will be streamed on the team’s website and social channels. It will air on MLB Network and MASN. Several members from
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6:29 PM ET Clemson continued its impressive 2021 recruiting haul on Tuesday, landing ESPN 300 linebacker Barrett Carter, the No. 104 ranked recruit overall. Carter, a 6-foot-1, 215-pound linebacker, out of North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee, Georgia, chose the Tigers over Auburn, Georgia and Ohio State. He is the No. 12 ranked prospect in
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5:54 PM ET ESPN News Services SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz announced that forward Bojan Bogdanovic underwent surgery to repair a ruptured ligament in his right wrist. The procedure was performed Tuesday by orthopedic surgeon Michelle Carlson at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. The team said in a release that
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6:17 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — In basketball terms, “The Last Dance” had a strong fourth quarter. The last two episodes of the 10-part Michael Jordan documentary, shown over the past five Sunday nights, averaged 5.9 million viewers, the Nielsen company said. It was simulcast on ESPN and ESPN2. That’s easily the
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4:33 PM ET Former Chicago Bulls forward Horace Grant has fired back at claims Michael Jordan made about him during “The Last Dance” documentary series on ESPN. In a radio interview with Kap and Co. on ESPN 1000 in Chicago on Tuesday, Grant said it “is a downright, outright, completely lie” that he leaked much
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6:20 PM ET Steve KimESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez want to next fight each other in a high-stakes lightweight unification bout, Top Rank’s Bob Arum told ESPN on Tuesday after talking to both camps. “In talking with Lomachenko and Lopez, neither of them want an interim fight,” Arum said. “So we would plan to
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