Month: October 2022

7:35 PM ET Russell Westbrook is listed as doubtful for the Los Angeles Lakers‘ road game against the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday because of left hamstring soreness, the team announced. Westbrook was limited to five minutes in the Lakers’ preseason finale because of the hamstring issue and later said that coach Darvin Ham’s decision to
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8:02 PM ET OKLAHOMA CITY — Kawhi Leonard experienced stiffness in his surgically repaired right knee and missed the LA Clippers‘ 108-94 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night. The two teams will meet again, Thursday in Oklahoma City, and Leonard will sit that one out, as well. Before Tuesday’s loss, Clippers coach
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7:29 PM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Coming off a 33-49 season in which they missed the playoffs and currently winless through the first week of the new campaign, the Los Angeles Lakers are on alert, Anthony Davis said Tuesday. “Obviously, there’s some sense of urgency,” Davis said after practice. “You don’t want to dig
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2:27 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers have hired Tampa Bay scouting director Rob Metzler as vice president and assistant general manager, the team announced Tuesday. Metzler spent 15 seasons with the Rays, working the past seven years as the team’s senior director of amateur scouting. He will lead the Tigers’ amateur
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4:17 PM ET The Miami Marlins have hired Skip Schumaker as the team’s new manager, the team announced Tuesday. A first-time manager, Schumaker played 11 seasons in the majors, with the first eight coming with the St. Louis Cardinals. He was a part of two World Series-winning Cardinals teams in 2006 and 2011. “As we
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8:55 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — The sudden end of a season that went unexpectedly deep left the San Diego Padres with questions to answer and holes to fill, as well as a hunger to play further into October next year. They will also begin pondering a long-term deal for 24-year-old superstar Juan
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9:50 PM ET Novak Djokovic says he has been given ‘positive signs’ that he will be allowed to enter Australia and compete in the Australian Open in January despite being under a three-year visa ban. The Serbian, whose ban was imposed along with his deportation for his potential to cause “civil unrest” as a “talisman
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8:56 PM ET Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia safety Dan Jackson is facing foot surgery that could end his season. Coach Kirby Smart said Tuesday night that Jackson, tied for sixth on the team in tackles, won’t be available for No. 1 Georgia in Saturday’s game against Florida in Jacksonville. Jackson, a junior, has
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8:23 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Arizona State is committed to athletic director Ray Anderson, school president Michael Crow told ESPN on Tuesday. Amid a sweeping NCAA investigation into the Sun Devil football program, the failed tenure of former coach Herm Edwards and plummeting interest in the program, Crow said that Anderson is in charge of
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