Month: June 2022

3:07 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers added outfielder Trayce Thompson to the active roster on Tuesday after acquiring him from the Detroit Tigers for cash. Thompson returns to the Dodgers after spending parts of the 2016 and 2017 seasons with them. He hit .207 with 14 home runs and
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12:41 PM ET Major League Baseball is now requiring teams to “muddy” baseballs before games using the exact same technique, according to a league memo sent to all 30 teams on Tuesday and obtained by ESPN. Muddying is the process of removing gloss from new baseballs to give pitchers a better grip. It’s been used
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4:41 PM ET American League RBIs leader Jose Ramirez is back in the Cleveland Guardians‘ lineup Tuesday after missing his first two games this season with a sore right thumb. He is batting third and playing third base in Tuesday night’s game against the Minnesota Twins, who lead the Guardians by just one game in
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3:49 PM ET Associated Press CROMWELL, Conn. — Nick Faldo is leaving after 16 years as the lead golf analyst for CBS Sports. In his place will be another former Masters champion. CBS announced Tuesday that Trevor Immelman of South Africa, who won the 2008 Masters and will captain the International team for this year’s
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4:18 PM ET Associated Press The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship is doubling the size of its purse to $9 million, another boost to the women’s game that brings prize money for the five majors to nearly triple the amount from a decade ago. The increase in prize money for the LPGA Tour’s second-oldest major is
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3:17 PM ET The Claressa Shields-Savannah Marshall fight for the undisputed middleweight championship will take place on Sept. 10 at the O2 Arena in London, a source told ESPN on Tuesday. The details are still being finalized, the source said, and an official announcement is expected in early July. But the finalization process is not
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12:55 PM ET In response to the LIV Golf threat, the PGA Tour hopes to introduce a revamped schedule that will include increased purses worth at least $20 million in at least eight existing marquee events and three new events in a global golf series that will include no cuts, limited fields and purses of
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