Month: October 2020

6:21 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Carolina Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey returned to the practice field Monday for the first time in five weeks, but his status for Thursday night’s game against the Atlanta Falcons remains in doubt. “It’s a possibility,” coach Matt Rhule said, when asked if McCaffrey could be ready for the
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5:12 PM ET Coming off one of the worst statistical games of his career, New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold received a pep talk and a vote of confidence from coach Adam Gase. “I just keep thinking, ‘He’s 23, none of this can be easy,'” Gase said Monday, adding that he spoke with Darnold on
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5:31 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Fans of UNLV football will be the first to attend a game at the home of the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders after the university’s plan to allow a limited number of spectators was approved by the Southern Nevada Health District and Nevada’s department of Business & Industry.
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5:21 PM ET ESPN News Services JACKSON, Miss. — W.C. Gorden, a Hall of Fame coach who led Jackson State’s football team to a 28-game Southwestern Athletic Conference winning streak while building a league power in the late 1980s, has died. He was 90. The school announced on its athletics website that Gorden died Friday
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5:37 PM ET Saturday’s football game between New Mexico and San Jose State has been relocated to San Jose, California, as a result of public health orders in New Mexico related to the coronavirus pandemic. “We are thankful to everyone that worked behind the scenes to give our team an opportunity to compete,” New Mexico
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4:50 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — David Braley, the owner of three Canadian Football League teams over the years and once the league’s interim commissioner, died Monday. He was 79. He died at home in Burlington, Ontario, according to the B.C Lions, one of his teams. A cause was not given. Braley also owned
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3:56 PM ET Broncos starting nose tackle Mike Purcell will miss the rest of the 2020 season because of a foot injury he suffered Sunday in Denver’s 43-16 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, coach Vic Fangio announced Monday. Fangio told reporters he believes Purcell has a Lisfranc injury. Purcell is a key part of
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3:13 PM ET One day after beating the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Football Team coach Ron Rivera took another victory lap Monday. But it was to celebrate a different win: the end of his cancer treatments. At a northern Virginia hospital Monday, Rivera received his last round of chemotherapy and proton therapy, marking the end of
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4:55 PM ET Arizona Cardinals running back Kenyan Drake is expected to miss “a few weeks” with a slight tear of a ligament in his ankle, a source tells ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The Cardinals are treating Drake’s injury like a high-ankle sprain, the source said. X-rays taken on Sunday night were negative. Drake suffered the
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