Month: July 2021

2:18 PM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com The Los Angeles Rams will have another uniform look for the 2021 season, but this will be more familiar to the team’s longtime fans. The Rams on Tuesday revealed what they are calling the “modern throwback” that has elements from the team’s uniforms worn from the mid-1970s to 2000, including
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12:03 PM ET Will Craig, who was demoted to the minors by the Pittsburgh Pirates after his embarrassing fielding mistake against the Chicago Cubs went viral, has signed with a team in Korea and is ready to “start over.” Craig told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that he’s signed with the Kiwoom Heroes of the Korea Baseball
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1:21 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — Seven-inning doubleheaders and starting extra innings with runners on second are likely to be dropped by Major League Baseball after this season. Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, speaking Tuesday to the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, said he views both innovations as specific to the coronavirus pandemic. They were
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10:19 AM ET Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne announced his retirement from the NHL on Tuesday after 15 seasons. Rinne, 38, played his entire career in Nashville and retires atop nearly every franchise goaltending category. He was an unrestricted free agent this summer after his two-year, $10 million bridge deal was set to expire. “My
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12:40 PM ET The Minnesota Wild are buying out the last four years of Zach Parise‘s and Ryan Suter‘s contracts, the team announced on Tuesday. Parise and Suter, both 36, signed matching 13-year, $98 million deals on July 4, 2012. The Wild swooped in to sign Suter away from the Predators and Parise away from
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1:02 PM ET Dominique Ducharme was named the head coach of the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday, after leading the team to the Stanley Cup Final as an interim coach this season. Ducharme, 48, took over Feb. 24 from Claude Julien, under whom he was an assistant for two seasons. Montreal went 15-16-7 and finished fourth
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1:02 PM ET Quarterback Terrelle Pryor and four other former Ohio State football players who were disciplined for receiving free tattoos and other impermissible benefits in exchange for their memorabilia are asking for Buckeyes victories and individual records to be restored. The Buckeyes were forced to vacate victories and records as part of NCAA sanctions
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12:39 PM ET Swiss tennis star Roger Federer has withdrawn from the Tokyo Olympics after suffering a knee injury during the grass-court season, he said Tuesday. “I unfortunately experienced a setback with my knee, and have accepted that I must withdraw from the Tokyo Olympic Games,” Federer said in a Twitter post Tuesday. “I am
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