Month: August 2023

Jeff Passan, ESPNAug 14, 2023, 01:47 PM ET Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball launched an investigation into Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco and the team placed him on the restricted list after social media posts questioned the alleged
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Michael A. Fletcher, ESPNAug 14, 2023, 12:00 PM ET Close Michael Fletcher is a senior writer with ESPN’s enterprise and investigative team. Before that, he wrote for ESPN’s The Undefeated, focusing on politics, criminal justice and social issues. He spent 21 years at The Washington Post, where his beats included the national economy, the White
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Associated Press Aug 14, 2023, 04:11 PM ET MADRID — The budding rivalry between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic is set to be renewed in the group stage of the Davis Cup Finals next month. Alcaraz and Djokovic were included in the teams announced Monday by Spain and Serbia, respectively, for the competition that will
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Associated Press Aug 14, 2023, 11:32 AM ET The International Ice Hockey Federation has ruled in favor of the Philadelphia Flyers by agreeing that Russian goaltender Ivan Fedotov had a valid NHL contract for the upcoming season when he signed with CSKA Moscow in the KHL. The decision rendered Monday paves the way for Fedotov
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Ryan S. Clark, NHL reporterAug 14, 2023, 02:52 PM ET Close Ryan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN. Toronto Maple Leafs forward prospect Rodion Amirov, the club’s 2020 first-round pick, has died, his agent, Dan Milstein, confirmed Monday. He was 21. Milstein posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Amirov died after
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Associated Press Aug 14, 2023, 12:47 PM ET Doris Burke will become the first woman to serve as a game analyst on television for a championship final in one of the four major professional U.S. sports leagues. ESPN announced Monday that Burke and Doc Rivers will join Mike Breen on ESPN and ABC’s top NBA
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Greg Wyshynski, ESPNAug 14, 2023, 11:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar will grace the cover of EA Sports’ NHL 24 video game, it was announced. “It’s so cool,” Makar told ESPN. “When they were considering me to be a part of this, it was just
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Aug 14, 2023, 12:05 PM England have called up Northampton’s Alex Mitchell to replace Jack van Poortvliet in their World Cup squad after the scrumhalf was ruled out of the tournament having sustained an ankle injury in Saturday’s 19-17 win over Wales, the RFU said on Monday. Van Poorvliet had established himself as the probable
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