Month: December 2022

4:55 PM ET Associated Press SYDNEY — Novak Djokovic has arrived in Australia almost a year after he was deported over his stance against COVID-19 vaccination, Tennis Australia confirmed Wednesday. Djokovic will open his 2023 campaign in Adelaide as he prepares for a shot at a 10th Australian Open title. The 21-time major winner has
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5:32 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Rey Vargas and O’Shaquie Foster will meet for the WBC vacant junior lightweight title on Feb. 11 at The Alamodome in San Antonio, sources tell ESPN. Subriel Matias and Jeremias Ponce will vie for the vacant IBF junior welterweight title on the PBC on the Showtime undercard, sources said. Vargas
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1:56 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Blues defenseman Torey Krug was placed on injured reserve Tuesday with a lower-body injury and will be reevaluated in six weeks. Krug, 31, has five goals and 12 assists in 31 games this season, his third with St. Louis. He will be a long-term IR
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11:15 AM ET Three-time Defensive Player of the Year J.J. Watt announced Tuesday that this will be his final NFL season. “Koa’s first ever NFL game. My last ever NFL home game. My heart is filled with nothing but love and gratitude. It’s been an absolute honor and a pleasure,” he tweeted along with a
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10:54 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Record-setting Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman intends to enter the NCAA transfer portal, sources told ESPN. Hartman set the Atlantic Coast Conference record for touchdown passes during his career at Wake Forest, throwing for 110 in his five seasons. Hartman ranks second in ACC history with 12,967 career passing yards,
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10:08 AM ET Bellator MMA has added a middleweight title fight to its first major event of 2023, promotional officials told ESPN on Tuesday. Middleweight champion Johnny Eblen will seek his first title defense against Anatoly Tokov in the co-main event of Bellator 290 on Feb. 4 in the Los Angeles area. The event will
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12:16 AM ET CLEVELAND — Prior to leading his team to its ninth straight win — a 125-117 triumph over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night — Brooklyn Nets coach Jacque Vaughn acknowledged what he thought was the key to his team’s recent hot play. “Basketball,” Vaughn said before the game. “We have not steered
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File image of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami© AFP In the just-concluded Test series against Bangladesh, the Indian cricket team was without two of its front-line fast bowlers – Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami. Bumrah sustained a back injury in September and is currently under the supervision of the BCCI Medical Team. Mohammed Shami, on
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5:33 AM ET They’ll move up and down weight classes, searching for the best possible opponent who can give them the most cachet in terms of financial gains, prestige and overall challenge. Welcome to the world of women’s boxing, where the best fight the best, where title fights are a weekly occurrence and unification bouts
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7:51 PM ET Sacramento Kings All-Star center Domantas Sabonis has been diagnosed with an avulsion fracture of the ulnar collateral ligament of the right thumb, the team announced Monday. The Kings said he will be listed as questionable for Tuesday’s home game against the Denver Nuggets, indicating he may try to play through the injury.
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