Month: September 2018

7:36 AM ET PARIS, France — Players will wear yellow ribbons during this week’s Ryder Cup in tribute to murdered Iowa State student-athlete Celia Barquin Arozamena. Barquin Arozamena, 22, was found dead on Sep. 17 at a golf course in Ames, Iowa. A native of Spain, she won the Big 12 championship by 3 strokes
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7:47 AM ET Alabama linebacker Dylan Moses barreling into a wall during Saturday’s game may prompt changes at Bryant-Denny Stadium to prevent similar scary moments in the future. Moses was covering Texas A&M tight end Jace Sternberger when he tumbled out of the end zone. The linebacker collided with the knees of a security guard
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7:32 AM BST Rugby Australia boss Raelene Castle plans to reach out to the rival rugby code to identify female talent, and aspires to see a women on the Wallabies coaching staff. A number of sevens players, including some members of triumphant 2016 Olympic squad, came from touch football competitions organised by the NRL. The
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6:34 AM ET Associated Press WUHAN, China — No. 2-ranked Caroline Wozniacki reached the third round of a tournament for the first time since June at the Wuhan Open on Tuesday. Wozniacki defeated Swedish qualifier Rebecca Peterson 6-4, 6-1, making just nine unforced errors to Peterson’s 36. Caroline Wozniacki ended a drought without a third-round
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4:15 AM ET PITTSBURGH — The NFL’s roughing-the-passer penalties have gotten so rampant that even the quarterbacks are noting the sheer volume. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who got hit on two penalized plays in Monday night’s 30-27 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, pointed out NFL viewership could be impacted by the flags. The
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3:13 AM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Minnesota Timberwolves president of basketball operations and coach Tom Thibodeau met with All-Star forward Jimmy Butler on Monday to try to convince him to rejoin the team in the preseason, league sources told ESPN. Butler declined, the sources said. Butler is uninterested in practicing or playing with the Timberwolves again,
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1:01 AM ET In an action-packed slugfest that will be a contender for fight of the year, Kosei Tanaka won a majority decision to take a flyweight world title from Japanese countryman Sho Kimura on Monday at the Takeda Teva Ocean Arena in Nagoya, Japan. Tanaka won 116-112 and 115-113 on two scorecards, while the
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