Month: August 2020

3:25 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — Eagles starting left tackle Andre Dillard tore his biceps and likely will need season-ending surgery next week, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Dillard, the team’s first-round pick in 2019, suffered the injury during one-on-one drills early in Thursday’s practice. He was taken inside after being evaluated by trainers. Jordan
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2:56 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants haven’t ruled out the option of sitting out a game in the regular season to protest social injustice, according to lead running back Saquon Barkley and wide receiver Sterling Shepard. Barkley and Shepard were asked on Zoom calls Thursday after practice whether not playing
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4:01 PM ET Associated Press Notre Dame announced it will play South Florida on Sept. 19 as its lone nonconference game of the football season. The Fighting Irish will play as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference this season, a move made in response to the coronavirus pandemic altering schedules of the Power Five
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2:04 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Lee Selby and George Kambosos Jr’s world-title eliminator, scheduled for Oct. 3, has been cancelled and a new date is yet to be scheduled.
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1:48 PM ET Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will return to the ring on Sept. 25 to face Mario Cazares in an event to take place in Tijuana, Mexico, that includes his legendary father, Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., in an exhibition bout against Jorge “Travieso” Arce, fight organizers announced on Wednesday. Chavez Jr. (51-4-1, 33 KOs)
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2:36 PM ET East Carolina’s game against Marshall, scheduled for Sept. 12 in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, ECU announced on Thursday. The Pirates and Thundering Herd hope to reschedule later in 2020. The game held special significance this year because officials at both schools had hoped to use it
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1:59 PM ET Eight Nebraska football players on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Big Ten, seeking to invalidate the league’s postponement of the fall football season and to award damages. The suit, filed Thursday in Lancaster County District Court, alleges that the Big Ten is in breach of contract by not following its governing
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