Month: February 2023

4:51 PM ET Wrexham‘s fairytale FA Cup run was finally ended by Sheffield United, thanks to two stoppage-time goals that gave the Championship side a 3-1 victory over their non-league opponents in Tuesday’s FA Cup fourth-round replay at Bramall Lane. After a thrilling 3-3 draw in the first match in Wrexham, the National League side
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7:10 PM ET LOS ANGELES — After his first practice with the Dallas Mavericks, All-Star guard Kyrie Irving said he felt “really wanted” by his new team, a stark contrast to feeling “very disrespected” at times during his turbulent 3½-season tenure with the Brooklyn Nets. “I just know I want to be places where I’m
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6:35 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball’s new pitch clock, limits on shifts and larger bases will not be used during the World Baseball Classic. The three innovations will be debuted during the spring training exhibition season that starts Feb. 24. The 20-team national team tournament runs from March 8-21, and
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12:58 AM ET Associated Press DALLAS — John Isner won a pair of tiebreakers in a match without any service breaks, advancing to the second round of his hometown Dallas Open with a straight-sets victory over Chun-Hsin Tseng on Tuesday night. The fifth-seeded American served 22 aces in a 7-6 (5), 7-6 (1) victory that
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3:42 PM ET Aaron Rodgers hopes the darkness will help him see the light about his future. The Green Bay Packers‘ quarterback said Tuesday on “The Pat McAfee Show” that he will embark on a four-day/four-night “darkness retreat” soon after the Super Bowl on Sunday. “I’ve got a pretty cool opportunity to do a little
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1:55 PM ET U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh will become the new executive director of the National Hockey League Players Association, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. Walsh, 55, succeeds Donald Fehr, who led the NHLPA from 2010 and negotiated on the players’ behalf through two collective bargaining agreements with NHL owners. The formal announcement
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The Border-Gavaskar Trophy will start on Thursday with India geared up to face the ever-competitive Australia in Nagpur in the first Test. There is a lot of interest regarding the Indian batting order. With a plethora of talents, it isn’t yet confirmed as to what is India’s playing XI for the series opener. Former India
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6:26 PM ET Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Kyle Busch was detained at a Mexican airport late last month when a handgun and ammunition were discovered in his luggage, the NASCAR star acknowledged this week, apologizing for the incident and calling it “a mistake.” Busch was sentenced this month to 3½ years in prison and
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Formula 1 president Stefano Domenicali says the sport will “never put a gag on anyone” amid ongoing controversy over freedom of speech. Governing body the FIA is facing a backlash over a new rule that prohibits “personal, religious and political statements” without written consent. “Everyone wants to talk,” said former Ferrari team boss Domenicali. “So
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12:25 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Amanda Kamekona, a former star softball player at UCLA, has been hired as a minor league hitting instructor for the Cleveland Guardians. She’s the first female on-field coach in team history. Kamekona, 36, will be based at the team’s year-round complex in Goodyear, Arizona, where she’ll work with
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4:18 PM GMT Wales second row Alun Wyn Jones will be available to face Scotland in the Six Nations tie at Murrayfield on Saturday, despite coach Warren Gatland having ruled him out after the 34-10 loss to Ireland in Cardiff on Saturday. Gatland told reporters Jones had failed a head injury assessment, which would see
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1:21 PM ET Tulane defensive coordinator Lance Guidry is expected to become the next defensive coordinator at Miami, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Tuesday. Guidry spent the 2022 season at Marshall and took the Tulane job last month. Tulane is owed $500,000 in buyout money for Guidry’s departure, a source told Thamel, and the
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11:23 AM GMT Steve Borthwick’s overhaul of England’s coaching team has continued with the announcement that Richard Wigglesworth and Aled Walters will join at the end of the season, while forwards coach Richard Cockerill said on Tuesday he will join Montpellier after the Six Nations. Wigglesworth is interim head coach of Leicester Tigers but will
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9:00 AM ET The Boston Bruins have dominated everything this season. Well, except for the NHL All-Star Skills breakaway challenge, where David Pastrnak probably should have workshopped that “Happy Gilmore” tribute a bit more. Here’s a consolation prize for the Bruins star winger: He has moved into the top three for NHL most valuable player
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