Month: September 2018

11:35 AM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — David Williams II, the first African-American athletic director in the Southeastern Conference, is retiring from his role overseeing Vanderbilt athletics and as vice chancellor. The man nicknamed the Goldfather for his work guiding Vanderbilt athletics to success not considered possible at the Southeastern Conference’s only private university
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12:01 PM BST The Gallagher Premiership’s clubs and London Irish will meet on Tuesday to discuss the multi-million pound takeover offer tabled by a private equity firm. CVC Capital Partners — the former owners of Formula One — have offered £275m for a 51 per cent holding stake in the English top flight but it
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11:27 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The New York Rangers have acquired defenseman Adam McQuaid from the Boston Bruins for defenseman Steven Kampfer and two draft picks. The teams announced the trade Tuesday before the Bruins flew to China for two exhibition games. Boston gets a 2019 fourth-round pick and a conditional seventh-rounder
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Sep 11, 2018 UFC lightweight Michael Chiesa has filed a civil lawsuit against Conor McGregor, seeking damages he allegedly suffered during McGregor’s infamous bus attack in April. Chiesa, 30, was scheduled to fight at UFC 223 on April 7 in Brooklyn but was forced to withdraw when he suffered minor injuries during McGregor’s attack, days
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7:44 AM ET Top seeds Shuai Zhang and Su-Wei Hsieh both advanced their Japan Women’s Open claims with victories in the first-round in Hiroshima. Chinese No. 1 seed Zhang comfortably made it past Magdalena Frech of Poland in straight sets 7-5 6-3 to set up a clash with Eugenie Bouchard‘s conqueror Nao Hibino, while Hsieh
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10:37 AM BST KweséESPN Staff Transformation is a priority for the Springboks’ coaching staff, says South African forwards coach Matt Proudfoot. Despite successive losses to Argentina and Australia, Proudfoot says he and the rest of the coaching staff are taking a long-term approach to the national team ahead of their crucial match against New Zealand
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3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Derbyshire 118 for 4 (Hughes 74*) trail Northamptonshire 255 (Zaib 57, Curran 51, Hughes 4-57) by 137 runsScorecard Alex Hughes was the chief beneficiary of a rain-shortened day at Wantage Road as he made his way to 74 not out, moving Derbyshire to 118 for 4 replying to Northamptonshire’s
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11:00 AM ET When Top Rank and ESPN announced their new seven-year rights deal in August that called for 54 live boxing events per year, one of the key elements was that Top Rank would secure American rights to 24 international cards annually to stream them on ESPN+. Top Rank has picked up cards from
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