Month: May 2023

12:22 PM ET Paris Saint-Germain are considering handing Lionel Messi a fine for missing training on Monday to travel to Saudi Arabia, sources have told ESPN. First reported by French newspaper L’Equipe, PSG manager Christophe Galtier told his players that they would have two days off, Monday and Tuesday, if they beat Lorient on Sunday,
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10:13 PM ET UFC double champion Amanda Nunes will face Mexican challenger Irene Aldana at UFC 289 on June 10, as her original opponent, Julianna Peña, suffered a rib injury. UFC president Dana White broke the news via social media on Tuesday. The new 135-pound matchup will headline the pay-per-view event, which takes place at
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9:00 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Asked to describe his disappointment about missing the cut at the Masters, after he entered the first major championship of the season as a favorite in early April, Rory McIlroy offered a blunt two-word answer: “It sucked.” “It sucked. It sucked,” McIlroy said Tuesday, during his first meeting with
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7:26 PM ET Associated Press MADRID — Zhang Zhizhen needed to save three match points in his win over Taylor Fritz at the Madrid Open to become the first Chinese player to reach an ATP Masters 1000 quarterfinal on Tuesday. Zhang rallied from a set down against the eighth-seeded American to advance 3-6, 7-6 (5),
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7:03 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has won the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award for the 2022-23 season, the league announced on Tuesday. Embiid, who finished second behind Nikola Jokic in the voting for the award each of the past two seasons, flipped the script this time around, finishing ahead of
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10:13 AM ET Associated Press MADRID — Carlos Alcaraz made sure he wouldn’t be among the top seeds being upset at the Madrid Open on Tuesday, playing well from the start to secure his spot in the quarterfinals with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Alexander Zverev. After both second-seeded Daniil Medvedev and fifth-seeded Andrey Rublev
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1:00 PM ET Elizabeth Merrill Close Elizabeth Merrill ESPN Senior Writer Elizabeth Merrill is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. She previously wrote for The Kansas City Star and The Omaha World-Herald. Anthony Olivieri Former Las Vegas Raiders receiver Henry Ruggs III unconditionally waived his right to a preliminary hearing on Tuesday
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5:11 PM ET The Houston Open is officially returning to the spring portion of the PGA Tour schedule and will be played March 28-31 in 2024, tournament organizers announced Tuesday. The PGA Tour had previously announced that the longtime tour stop would be moved back to the spring next year after it wasn’t included in
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3:30 PM ET Associated Press On Tuesday, the College Football Playoff released a schedule for the 12-team format that will be used in the 2024 and 2025 seasons, and it will feature New Year’s Day tripleheaders but no quarterfinal games played on Saturday. CFP executive director Bill Hancock said last week after the board of
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4:00 PM BST One of the biggest names in women’s rugby Black Ferns’ Ruby Tui has signed with Premier Rugby Sevens, the highest professional sevens competition in the United States. Re-signing with New Zealand Rugby last week, Tui made the announcement she would be taking a sabbatical immediately before returning to both the sevens and
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3:27 PM ET Arkansas cornerback Quincey McAdoo, who started four games last season, has been hospitalized but is in stable condition after a car accident Monday. The team said in a statement Tuesday that McAdoo, a second-year player from Clarendon, Arkansas, was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a Fayetteville hospital. “He is in stable condition
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3:35 PM ET Popular featherweight Bryce Mitchell has an undisclosed injury and is out of his scheduled UFC 288 fight Saturday against the undefeated Movsar Evloev, sources confirmed to ESPN. Evloev will now fight Diego Lopes, who has been newly signed by the UFC. Evloev vs. Mitchell would have been a big fight in the
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2:06 PM ET Associated Press Toyota will finally expand its fleet in NASCAR by adding Jimmie Johnson‘s two-car team next season. The addition of Legacy Motor Club will give Toyota eight Camry TRDs in the Cup Series. Toyota has long been the smallest manufacturer in NASCAR and also long eager to add new teams to
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2:14 PM ET Former heavyweight boxing world champion Deontay Wilder was arrested early Tuesday in Los Angeles for possession of a concealed weapon. The Los Angeles Police Department announced that Wilder, 37, was taken into custody at 1:15 a.m. local time Tuesday morning. He was released on a bond of $35,000 approximately five hours later.
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1:20 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — The ever-evolving world of college sports hasn’t yet made a significant impact on the NCAA’s annual Academic Progress Rate scores. The overall score for Division I athletes held steady at 984 despite slight decreases in the three most visible sports, according to the latest four-year results released Tuesday.
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