Month: July 2020

11:31 PM ET Was is it a triple play or a trapped ball? Even Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant isn’t sure after turning the team’s first since 1997. The Cincinnati Reds had the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning on Wednesday night when Bryant seemingly caught a line drive off the
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9:29 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Ernie Banks famously said: “Let’s play two.” Baseball players just might not want to play nine innings twice in one day during this pandemic-delayed season. While the Cleveland Indians swept the Chicago White Sox in the first doubleheader of the season on Tuesday, union head Tony
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11:00 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Following the coronavirus outbreak that infected nearly half of the Miami Marlins‘ roster and prompted the temporary suspension of the team’s season, Major League Baseball is encouraging players not to leave hotels
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10:42 PM ET Colorado State is voluntarily pausing team activities to prevent the potential spread of COVID-19, the school announced Wednesday. CSU has has eight positive COVID-19 tests out of more than 140 administered since testing began last month. The entire team will be tested as early as next week, and Colorado State expects to
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9:22 PM ET Arizona will resume team activities next week and bring freshmen to campus beginning Monday as part of a phased return of its athletic programs, the school announced Wednesday. In late June, Arizona paused its plan to return athletes for team activities, citing a rising number of COVID-19 cases in Pima County and
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9:01 PM ET Associated Press COSTA MESA, Calif. — Anthony Lynn on Wednesday addressed many topics about the Los Angeles Chargers reporting to training camp, but the one thing he didn’t have to discuss was a holdout involving one of his star players. Any possibility of that happening became a moot point Tuesday night, when
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7:45 PM ET Justin Thomas‘ regular caddie, Jimmy Johnson, is not feeling well enough to work at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational this week, so Phil Mickelson‘s former caddie, Jim “Bones” Mackay, will take over this week, and likely next week for the PGA Championship, as well. Mackay, who worked for Mickelson for 25 years
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4:14 PM ET Steve KimESPN Top Rank CEO Bob Arum would like to make a fight between WBO welterweight titleholder Terence Crawford and WBA titlist Manny Pacquiao in the fall. But Arum said it’s far from a done deal — despite some reports saying it’s close. “Right now, all we’ve done is we’ve contacted Crawford
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8:06 PM ET Clemson added its second ESPN 300 prospect in as many days Wednesday when offensive lineman Dietrick Pennington announced his commitment to the Tigers. Pennington is the No. 213-ranked recruit overall and chose Clemson over Auburn, Florida State, Georgia and LSU. He’s a 6-foot-5, 280-pound offensive guard out of Evangelical Christian High School
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