Month: February 2022

3:16 PM ET Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Marshall was granted a temporary restraining order Thursday against Conference USA after the league filed a request for arbitration in the school’s bid to expedite an early move to the Sun Belt. The order by Cabell County Circuit Judge Christopher Chiles prohibits Conference USA from proceeding with
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12:04 PM GMT Courtney Lawes and Manu Tuilagi return to the England team to face Wales in the Six Nations at Twickenham on Saturday, while Harry Randall gets another chance to impress at scrum-half in the squad named by coach Eddie Jones on Thursday. Lawes missed the opening two games with concussion but comes back
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1:37 PM ET NC State coach Dave Doeren has received a contract extension and raise through 2026, the school announced Thursday. The new deal will pay him $5 million annually, up from $3.5 million a year. All 10 assistants got new contracts as well. ESPN previously reported the school was working on a new contract
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1:12 PM ET Art Briles, who was fired as Baylor‘s head coach in 2016 following the university’s investigation into campus-wide allegations of sexual assault, has been hired as Grambling State‘s offensive coordinator, an athletics department spokesman confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. Former Cleveland Browns coach Hue Jackson was hired as Grambling State’s head coach in
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12:37 PM ET Greg Norman has accused the PGA Tour of bullying and threatening its players by warning them they might face a lifetime ban if they join a proposed rival circuit that is being financed by Saudi Arabian money. In a letter to PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan on Thursday, a copy of which
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12:31 PM GMT Former New Zealand winger Va’aiga Tuigamala, who also represented Samoa in rugby league, has died at the age of 52, his former club Wigan Warriors announced on Thursday. Nicknamed “Inga the Winger,” Tuigamala made his All Blacks debut in 1989 and was capped 19 times by the national team, before switching to
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12:12 PM GMT Jonathan Danty returns from injury to take his place in the French backline in the only change announced by coach Fabien Galtier to take on Scotland in the Six Nations at Murrayfield on Saturday. Danty missed France’s home win over Ireland a fortnight ago, which marked a second victory for them in
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12:30 PM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Novak Djokovic will fall from No. 1 in the ATP rankings and be replaced by Daniil Medvedev after losing 6-4, 7-6 (4) to Czech qualifier Jiri Vesely in the quarterfinals of the Dubai Championships on Thursday. Djokovic’s latest stay in the top spot began on
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