Month: April 2021

2:58 PM ET Fully vaccinated NFL players and other staffers will no longer face daily COVID-19 tests, one in a series of modified protocols the league and the NFL Players Association agreed to Friday. The NFL isn’t requiring vaccination for any employees but has pledged to offer incentives for doing so. In a memo outlining
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3:09 PM ET The Kansas City Chiefs are trading their first-round pick Thursday night, along with three other picks in the 2021 and 2022 drafts, to the Baltimore Ravens in exchange for Pro Bowl offensive tackle Orlando Brown and one pick in the 2021 draft and another in 2022, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The
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12:50 PM ET The Baltimore Orioles announced Adrienne Roberson as the team’s new permanent public address announcer, making her the first woman to do the job in team history. Roberson joins the ranks of Renel Brooks-Moon of the San Francisco Giants, Marysol Castro of the New York Mets and Amelia Schimmel of the Oakland Athletics
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1:58 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — The sputtering Minnesota Twins shelved another regular on Friday, placing first baseman Miguel Sanó on the 10-day injured list with a strained right hamstring. Sanó is batting .111 with two home runs and 20 strikeouts in 45 at-bats. Shortstop Andrelton Simmons, right fielder Max Kepler and left fielder
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1:28 PM ET CHICAGO — Milwaukee Brewers star Christian Yelich won’t be activated from the injured list on Saturday, the first day he’s eligible to come off, according to manager Craig Counsell. “He won’t hit on the field,” Counsell said Friday morning. “He’ll hit in the cage.” Yelich hasn’t appeared in a game since April
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9:57 AM ET Chelsea midfielder Jorginho has told ESPN Brasil that former manager Frank Lampard “wasn’t ready” for the managerial job because he “skipped a few steps.” Lampard took charge at Stamford Bridge in 2019 to replace Maurizio Sarri and led the club to a top four finish and an FA Cup final during his
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8:08 AM ET Zinedine Zidane has dismissed talk of Real Madrid being thrown out of the Champions League over the club’s involvement in the Super League as “illogical” and “absurd.” UEFA’s executive committee discussed the proposed breakaway league on Friday, confirming that it was looking at “the options available to UEFA and the steps it
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