Month: March 2019

9:05 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Kirk Triplett made a 12-foot eagle putt on the second hole of a playoff with Woody Austin on Sunday to win the Hoag Classic for his seventh PGA Tour Champions victory. The 56-year-old Triplett forced the playoff with a similar left-to-right breaker for birdie on the
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8:59 PM ET ESPN News Services Bill Powers, the president of the University of Texas at Austin from 2006 to 2015 who was instrumental with ESPN in the launching of the Longhorn Network, has died. He was 72. The university said Powers died Sunday in Austin from complications from a fall several months earlier and
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8:10 PM ET The Oakland Raiders have agreed to a two-year contract with defensive tackle Johnathan Hankins, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Hankins, who turns 27 on March 30, started 14 of the 15 games in which he played after joining the Raiders following Justin Ellis‘ foot injury in the 2018 season opener. While
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7:58 PM ET Chris PetersESPN NHL Close Chris Peters is ESPN’s NHL draft and prospects analyst. The Chicago native previously covered the NHL for CBSSports.com and founded the popular independent blog UnitedStatesofHockey.com where he covered the game at all levels since 2010. Quinn Hughes, selected seventh overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2018 NHL
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8:09 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — The door that Rory McIlroy keeps knocking on refuses to open. Sure, it would help if the four-time major champion did more to barge through it, but he has maintained a modest, almost stately approach to adding tournament hardware to his collection, only to come up empty. Sunday offered
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8:18 PM ET Associated Press INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Serena Williams retired from her third-round match at the BNP Paribas Open on Sunday because of a viral illness. Williams raced to a 3-0 lead over two-time major champion Garbine Muguruza before dropping six straight games and the first set, 6-3. During the changeover between sets,
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7:40 PM ET ESPN News Services Free-agent outfielder Adam Jones has agreed to a one-year, $3 million deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. A first-round pick of the Seattle Mariners in 2003, Jones was one of five players traded to the Baltimore Orioles in return for pitcher Erik Bedard in 2008.
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6:29 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — British Open champion Francesco Molinari rolled in a 45-foot birdie putt on the final hole at Bay Hill that capped off an 8-under 64, taking him from five shots behind to a two-shot victory Sunday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Molinari watched the putt kiss off the
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