Month: October 2021

2:57 PM ET Associated Press Top-seeded Simona Halep cruised into the semifinals of the Transylvania Open on Friday, but U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu lost to a fellow teenager in less than an hour. The third-seeded Raducanu lost 6-2, 6-1 to 19-year-old Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine after struggling with her serve throughout the match. Raducanu
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1:14 PM ET Marshall has agreed to join the Sun Belt Conference, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday, as the Thundering Herd become the third Conference USA to make the jump in the past week. No timeline has been set, but Southern Miss and Old Dominion — the two other schools moving over from Conference
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11:28 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — New York Jets wide receiver Corey Davis suffered a hip flexor injury Thursday and is not expected to play Sunday, meaning quarterback Mike White likely won’t have the team’s top playmaker in his NFL starting debut. “It’s not looking good,” coach Robert Saleh said Friday, referring to Davis.
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12:30 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Retired NFL player Brett Favre and Mississippi State Auditor Shad White feuded Friday over the auditor saying Favre failed to make speeches after being paid by welfare money. The Twitter spat happened days after Favre repaid $600,000 to the state — the last portion of the $1.1
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12:15 PM ET HOUSTON — Texans rookie quarterback Davis Mills will start Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams because Tyrod Taylor is not ready to return from injured reserve, coach David Culley said Friday. The Texans activated Taylor’s 21-day window on Wednesday, when he returned to practice after missing five games on injured reserve with
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12:01 PM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN MIAMI — Dolphins coach Brian Flores addressed speculation Friday that the team is in the market to trade for Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, once again declaring the Dolphins’ commitment to Tua Tagovailoa. “I think I’ve said this multiple times, ‘Tua is our quarterback,'” Flores said. “I don’t get into
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12:50 PM ET BEREA, Ohio — Cleveland quarterback Baker Mayfield will start Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Browns coach Kevin Stefanski announced Friday. Mayfield sat out last week’s game against the Denver Broncos after aggravating a torn labrum injury to his non-throwing shoulder he suffered in Week 2. But after a game off, Mayfield said
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1:01 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The IBF middleweight title eliminator between Esquiva Falcao and Patrice Volny will serve as chief support for the Terence Crawford-Shawn Porter welterweight title bout Nov. 20 on ESPN+ pay-per-view, sources tell ESPN. Janibek Alimkhanuly, ESPN’s No. 8 middleweight, will fight former titleholder Hassan N’Dam in another undercard bout in Las
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10:29 AM ET Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz wrote a letter to the Hockey Hall of Fame asking for the name of former video coach Brad Aldrich to be removed from the Stanley Cup. In the letter, obtained by ESPN, Wirtz asks the Hall to “consider x-ing out” Aldrich’s name because “while nothing can undo
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12:15 PM ET The NHL will not discipline Winnipeg Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff with respect to the Chicago Blackhawks‘ handling of sexual assault allegations against former video coach Brad Aldrich in 2010. Following an in-person meeting between Cheveldayoff and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on Friday, the league released a statement saying it has “concluded
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