Month: August 2022

7:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” THE MOST BEAUTIFUL play in Major League Baseball exists because its practitioner embraced a long-held axiom: Form follows function. Once upon a time, Trea Turner was a habitual head-first slider, his fingers
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8:32 AM ET High-profile quarterbacks top the odds to win the Heisman Trophy entering the college football season, but an Alabama defender is attracting plenty of interest from bettors at sportsbooks around the nation. Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud, at +200, is the consensus favorite to win the Heisman, followed by last year’s winner, Alabama
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9:09 AM ET ASHBURN, Va. — The Washington Commanders will retire quarterback Sonny Jurgensen’s No. 9, making him the fourth player in franchise history to earn that honor. Jurgensen, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1983, also served as an analyst on the team’s radio broadcast from 1981 to 2019 and was
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8:27 AM ET Cincinnati Bengals star safety Jessie Bates III returned to the team facility Tuesday after missing training camp and intends to sign his franchise tender, a source confirmed to ESPN. Bates was unable to reach a long-term extension this offseason with the Bengals, who placed the $12.911 million franchise tag on the fifth-year
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8:12 AM BST Quade Cooper is backing dumped playmaker James O’Connor to regain form and force his way back into the Wallabies’ ranks in time for next year’s Rugby World Cup. Cooper, who has been sidelined since rupturing an Achilles tendon in Australia’s Rugby Championship clash with Argentina earlier this month, has been joined on
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