Month: September 2018

4:03 PM ET ESPN News Services Boston Celtics guard Jabari Bird strangled a woman at least a dozen times over a four-hour period last Friday, prosecutors alleged at an arraignment hearing Thursday. Celtics guard Jabari Bird was arrested Friday for alleged assault, strangling and kidnapping, according to Boston police. According to prosecutors, the woman told
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12:23 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — While the feeling in the Green Bay Packers‘ locker room is that quarterback Aaron Rodgers will try to play Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings despite his ailing left knee, the team isn’t ready to say that just yet. Rodgers not only has come back the next week from
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9:00 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez meet Saturday in a rematch for Golovkin’s WBA and WBC world middleweight titles at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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10:26 AM ET MARINA BAY, Singapore — Despite spending the past week promoting his new Tommy Hilfiger fashion range, Lewis Hamilton insists his title battle with Sebastian Vettel has always been at the front of his mind. The Mercedes driver has a deal with the American fashion brand and over the past two weeks has
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9:36 AM ET China’s No. 1 seed Zhang Shuai defeated home favourite Nao Hibino to reach the quarterfinals of the Japan Women’s Open. Hibino — the last remaining Japanese player after recording a shock win over Eugenie Bouchard in round one — raced into a 4-1 lead, dropping just eight points in the first five
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9:45 AM ET MARINA BAY, Singapore — Fernando Alonso says he still hasn’t fully recovered from last month’s dramatic first corner accident in Belgium which saw himself, Nico Hulkenberg and Charles Leclerc all retire from the race immediately. The two-time world champion was seen wearing strapping across his right hand and wrist on Thursday in
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8:56 AM BST Handre Pollard and Malcolm Marx have returned to the Springboks starting side for their must-win Rugby Championship clash with the All Blacks in Wellington on Saturday. Flyhalf Pollard and hooker Marx were surprise omissions from coach Rassie Erasmus’s starting side last week against Australia, which the Wallabies won 23-18 in Brisbane. Pollard
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