Month: February 2019

4:42 PM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Rapper Ja Rule is taking heat on social media after problems with his halftime show during Saturday’s Timberwolves-Bucks game. Videos posted online show Ja Rule had sound problems at the beginning of his performance. At one point he said, “Are we ready?” then said, “I guess not,” before
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2:58 PM ET The World Boxing Super Series, which has been hampered by serious financial issues and the prospect of having No. 1 junior welterweight seed Regis Prograis pull out of the tournament, has worked out a deal to keep him in and scheduled his semifinal bout against world titlist Kiryl Relikh. They will meet
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2:52 PM ET Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Peyton Barber‘s team-issued tablet was stolen in Atlanta early Saturday morning, team officials told ESPN. Atlanta police told WSB-TV that a group of men broke into Barber’s Jeep Wrangler SUV around 5 a.m. Saturday outside a high rise in Buckhead, Georgia. Along with the tablet, the men
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  shares © Gallo Images/Getty Images Did playing on consistently difficult pitches at home sap South Africa’s top order of the confidence required to put Sri Lanka away? Coach Ottis Gibson, who has spearheaded the campaign to play on almost uniformly fast-and-bouncy pitches at home, thinks not. South Africa have publicly acknowledged that their new
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12:32 PM ET Stefanos Tsitsipas clinched his second ATP Tour singles title with a 7-5, 7-6 (5) victory over Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Kukushkin at the Marseille Open on Sunday. Tsitsipas, who reached the Australian Open semifinals last month, battled hard to secure victory over the 31-year-old Kukushkin in a little under two hours. The 20-year-old top
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12:26 PM ET UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov took to Instagram late Saturday night to voice his displeasure with lightweight contender Tony Ferguson’s decision to turn down an interim title fight. “Tony, you had your chance and you missed it, and that’s your fault only,” Nurmagomedov wrote. “You know that I’m disqualified and can’t fight,
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7:00 AM ET Emily KaplanESPN CHICAGO — At the end of last season, Patrick Kane wasn’t happy. The Chicago Blackhawks had missed the playoffs for the first time in a decade. Though the right winger was once again an All-Star, putting up 27 goals and 76 points, it was a drop-off from his 46-goal, 106-point
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