Month: February 2021

2:24 PM ET ESPN News Services CHICAGO — The leadership of the National Basketball Coaches Association spoke out Wednesday about its “concern and level of disappointment” with the way the Minnesota Timberwolves went about their coaching change earlier this week. The statement came from NBCA president Rick Carlisle of the Dallas Mavericks and NBCA executive
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3:24 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA released its schedule for the second half of the regular season live on ESPN’s The Jump on Wednesday afternoon, laying out how it plans to have all 30 teams play 72 games despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The NBA unveiled only its first-half schedule in early December, allowing
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1:23 PM ET Euro 2020 was postponed last year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Photo by Dan Istitene/Getty Images UEFA’s COVID-19 chief says there is no question of June’s Euro 2020 tournament being cancelled or postponed and that fans could yet be allowed to travel internationally to the games. The tournament was postponed last year
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9:28 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said he is still in touch with Erling Haaland and refused to rule out the possibility of bringing the striker to Manchester United in the future. Solskjaer, who worked with Haaland at Molde, missed out on the Norway international when he chose to sign for Borussia
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9:09 AM ET Bayern Munich teenager Jamal Musiala has decided to play for the Germany national team instead of England after a talk with head coach Joachim Low, he said on Wednesday. The 17-year-old attacking midfielder became the youngest English scorer in the Champions League when he netted for Bayern in Tuesday’s 4-1 win over
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11:54 AM ET Associated Press A player for Orlando City SC and his brother are accused of sexually assaulting a woman, sheriff’s investigators said. Jonathan Suarez-Cortes, 24, was arrested Tuesday night near Orlando, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted on Twitter. The team said in a statement officials learned of its
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2:42 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs offensive tackle Mitchell Schwartz said Wednesday on social media that he is hoping for a healthy 2021 season after undergoing surgery for a back injury that prematurely ended his season in 2020. “I was hoping to recover enough during the season to get back on
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1:54 PM ET Safety Antoine Winfield Jr. is donating $7,815, the amount he was fined for taunting the Kansas City Chiefs‘ Tyreek Hill in Super Bowl LV, to support the Tampa Bay Buccaneers‘ Youth Leadership Program at Tampa’s Young Middle Magnet School. The Buccaneers Foundation is matching his donation, making the total donation to the
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