Month: December 2022

4:44 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Mississippi State has agreed to terms to promote defensive coordinator Zach Arnett to head coach, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. He will replace Mike Leach, who died Monday night. Arnett agreed to a four-year deal that has yet to be signed but is expected to be formalized in the upcoming
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8:25 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN WESTWOOD, Calif. — UCLA is officially heading to the Big Ten after receiving approval from the University of California regents Wednesday, but the approval comes with stipulations. More than five months after the Bruins, alongside USC, announced their shocking intention to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten in 2024,
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9:21 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN INDIANAPOLIS — Stephen Curry was ruled out of the Golden State Warriors‘ 125-119 loss at the Indiana Pacers in the fourth quarter because of a left shoulder injury Wednesday. Curry sustained the injury with 2:04 left in the third quarter after attempting to strip Indiana’s Jalen Smith of the ball
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6:40 PM ET Arizona Cardinals general manager Steve Keim is taking a leave of absence for health-related reasons, the team announced Wednesday. Vice president of player personnel Quentin Harris and vice president of pro personnel Adrian Wilson will handle Keim’s duties on an interim basis. The team said it will have no further comment “out
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5:28 PM ET ESPN News Services PITTSBURGH — The surging Pittsburgh Penguins will have to try to keep their hot streak going without defenseman Jeff Petry and forward Jason Zucker. The Penguins have placed Petry on long-term injured reserve with an upper-body injury. Coach Mike Sullivan said Wednesday the team expects Petry to be out
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9:32 AM ET The LIV Golf League will stage tournaments in Arizona, Oklahoma and West Virginia as part of its expanded schedule in 2023. LIV Golf announced on Wednesday that it will host events at the Gallery Golf Club in Tucson, Arizona, on March 17-19, Cedar Ridge Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on May 12-14,
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1:02 PM ET The Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) on Wednesday extended the suspensions of MMA coach James Krause and fighter Darrick Minner, who were previously suspended after Minner’s UFC fight against Shayilan Nuerdanbieke was flagged for suspicious betting activity. The suspensions are pending further investigation and future disciplinary hearings. Krause and Minner’s NSAC suspensions
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Harmanpreet Kaur is most-capped player in WT20I history© Sportzpics Indian skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, on Wednesday, became the highest-capped player in Women’s T20I cricket history. The batter accomplished this feat during the third T20I against Australia in Mumbai on Wednesday. She played her 140th T20I match. In 140 T20I matches across 125 innings, Kaur has scored
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7:56 AM ET British No. 1 Emma Raducanu branded comments about her as untrue as she said the attention she has received after her meteoric rise in tennis has been “intense.” Raducanu, who received an MBE award from King Charles for her services to tennis, broke onto the scene with an impressive Wimbledon campaign in
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11:53 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Shortstop Carlos Correa and the San Francisco Giants are in agreement on a 13-year, $350 million contract, a record-long deal that is the richest ever for the position and gives the team
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