Month: July 2023

Tom Luginbill, ESPN AnalystJul 20, 2023, 07:30 AM ET Close Senior National Recruiting Analyst for ESPN.com Coached in four professional football leagues Graduated from Eastern Kentucky and Marshall The 2024 college football recruits create excitement and optimism among fans, and a great tool to help introduce the future stars of Saturday is to compare them
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Jul 19, 2023, 09:59 AM ET Pittsburgh Steelers pass-rusher Alex Highsmith has signed a four-year, $68 million contract extension, his agents told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Highsmith will make over $27.7 million in guarantees and $38 million over the first two new years of the deal, according to his agents. The Steelers announced the contract Wednesday
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Associated Press Jul 19, 2023, 08:53 PM ET ANAHEIM, Calif. — It took 61 years for Roger Maris’ American League season home run record to be broken. Aaron Judge‘s hold on the mark could be ended by Shohei Ohtani after one year. “Records are meant to be broken,” Judge said on Wednesday before the Yankees
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Fullback Tom Wright is the big casualty from the Wallabies’ winless start to 2023, with the Brumbies flyer dumped from Australia’s 34-man squad that will begin preparations to face the All Blacks in the Bledisloe Cup. Wright has seemingly paid the price for two huge errors in Australia’s 34-31 loss to Argentina in Sydney last
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Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterJul 19, 2023, 11:23 PM ET Islam Makhachev’s next title defense is no longer a mystery. The UFC lightweight champion will defend his belt against former champ Charles Oliveira in a rematch in the main event of UFC 294 on Oct. 21 in Abu Dhabi, UFC president Dana White announced Wednesday
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Jul 19, 2023, 10:37 PM ET The New York Jets have agreed to trade wide receiver Denzel Mims to the Detroit Lions, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Wednesday night. The Lions also will receive a 2025 seventh-round pick in the deal, while the Jets get a 2025 conditional sixth-round pick, according to
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The NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement, released late last month ahead of free agency, came with a previously undisclosed side letter indicating Ben Simmons has received credit for a year of service for the season in which he held out from the Philadelphia 76ers and was eventually traded to the Brooklyn Nets, sources familiar with
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Jul 19, 2023, 09:30 PM ET Vegas Golden Knights forward Brett Howden signed a two-year, $3.8 million deal with the club on Wednesday. The deal allowed the two sides to avoid arbitration. Howden had 13 points (six goals, seven assists) in 54 games last season before stepping up in the playoffs with 10 points (five
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Associated Press Jul 19, 2023, 08:37 PM ET MIDLAND, Mich. — Matilda Castren and Kelly Tan shot a 6-under 64 in alternate-shot play Wednesday to take the first-round lead in the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, the LPGA Tour’s lone team event. Castren, from Finland, and Tan, from Malaysia, birdied the final two holes and
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Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Staff WriterJul 19, 2023, 07:53 PM ET Five-star athlete Mike Matthews committed to Tennessee on Wednesday. Matthews, a three-sport (football, basketball, track) and two-way star on the football field for Parkview High School (Georgia), adds to a burgeoning class for Josh Heupel and the Volunteers that ESPN has ranked 14th. The Volunteers
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