Month: March 2022

3:22 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN MIAMI — The Golden State Warriors are resting Draymond Green, Klay Thompson and Otto Porter Jr. on Wednesday against the Miami Heat, the second night of a back-to-back. The move isn’t necessarily out of character for the Warriors — they’ve been resting Thompson and Porter on one end of back-to-back
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2:50 PM ET Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone has agreed to a multiyear contract extension with the team, it was announced Wednesday. Terms were not released. Malone, who had the 2022-2023 season remaining on his deal, will now be tied to the franchise through what it hopes will be a window of championship contention over
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3:48 PM ET LOS ANGELES — LeBron James has been ruled out of Wednesday night’s game against the Philadelphia 76ers because of soreness in his left knee, the Los Angeles Lakers announced. The Lakers’ next game isn’t until Sunday at New Orleans, giving James a six-day stretch to rest his ailing knee. It will be
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6:05 PM ET Adrian Wojnarowski Close Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Jeff Passan Close ESPN ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The progress toward further changes to New York City’s private-sector vaccine mandate has inspired confidence that
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5:45 PM ET Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Eager to get back to where he was, Justin Verlander says he still needs to get sharper. The Houston Astros ace was pulled after another scoreless outing, taken out after 2⅔ innings Wednesday when he reached a team-imposed pitch limit. “I felt good physically,” Verlander
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6:21 PM ET Associated Press CLEARWATER, Fla. — Shortly after his introductory news conference with the Philadelphia Phillies, Nick Castellanos went to a back field at the team’s spring training complex and fielded grounders at third base. The All-Star slugger hasn’t played the position since 2017, but he’s ready just in case. “Whatever the team
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5:36 PM ET The NHL announced on Wednesday that it was cancelling the trade that sent forward Evgenii Dadonov from the Vegas Golden Knights to the Anaheim Ducks because it violated his limited no-trade clause. Before Monday’s NHL trade deadline, Vegas moved Dadonov, a 33-year-old right winger, to the Ducks along with a conditional second-round
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8:00 AM ET ESPN staff Sonny Bill Williams has blasted Barry Hall out inside two minutes and says Paul Gallen could be his next opponent. New Zealand’s dual code rugby star Williams demolished AFL great in Sydney on Wednesday night, dominating from the opening seconds. Williams jolted the Sydney Swans premiership winner in the first
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5:45 PM ET COLUMBUS, Oh. — Ohio State‘s pro day offered a sneak peek at one of the best NFL draft prospects — for 2023. Buckeyes quarterback C.J. Stroud made 55-yard throws look effortless inside the school’s indoor practice facility on Wednesday. With representatives from all 32 teams watching, including a few NFL head coaches,
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6:05 PM ET ESPN News Services OXFORD, Miss. — Mississippi quarterback Matt Corral showed off his right arm and his apparently healthy right ankle for NFL teams. Corral threw for representatives of almost every NFL team at the Ole Miss pro day on Wednesday, including at least four head coaches: The Pittsburgh Steelers‘ Mike Tomlin,
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