Month: April 2019

12:27 PM ET Associated Press SCRANTON, Pa. — Former Penn State president Graham Spanier is asking a federal magistrate judge to overturn his conviction, less than a week before he is scheduled to start serving two months in jail. Spanier was in a Scranton, Pennsylvania, courthouse Thursday as his lawyers argued it violated the U.S.
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12:43 PM ET Rafael Nadal gave a much improved performance to advance into the quarterfinals of the Barcelona Open on Thursday, dispatching Spanish compatriot and crowd favourite David Ferrer 6-3, 6-3. The world No. 2 had produced a scrappy display against Leonardo Mayer on Wednesday, losing a set for the first time in four years
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11:35 AM BST English Premiership side Sale Sharks have signed South Africa lock Lood de Jager on a three-year deal, the first of a number of Springbok players set to move to European clubs after the World Cup in Japan. De Jager, 26, will leave Pretoria-based Super Rugby side the Bulls either at the start
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8:00 AM ET We all know freshmen can’t enter the NFL draft. And with good reason. With the exceptions of once-in-a-generation prospects like Adrian Peterson, football players usually need at least three seasons to get ready for the physical maturity and speed of the game seen in the pros. But that doesn’t mean we can’t
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10:07 AM BST The Rugby Football Union (RFU) confirmed five anti-doping violations within both the professional and community game were discovered out of more than 800 tests conducted across all levels of rugby in England in the 2017-18 season. The programme carried out 739 tests within the professional game while 99 tests were conducted at
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1:06 PM ET The NFL has sent a warning letter to Tom Coughlin, the Jacksonville Jaguars‘ executive vice president of football operations, about his criticism of players not attending voluntary offseason workouts, a source told ESPN’s Dan Graziano on Wednesday. Coughlin was not fined, but another source told Graziano that the letter warned Coughlin and
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