Month: June 2019

2:39 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jaguars defensive end Yannick Ngakoue will not attend the team’s mandatory minicamp this week because he wants a new contract. “I will not be attending minicamp as my contract has not been resolved,” Ngakoue said in a statement to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. “I remain committed to Jacksonville, the fans
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2:22 PM ET Featherweight Shakur Stevenson, one of boxing’s fastest-rising prospects, is getting the homecoming fight he has wanted. Stevenson will take on Hairon Socarras in the 10-round main event of a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card on July 13 (ESPN and ESPN Deportes, 10:30 p.m. with preliminaries streaming on ESPN+ beginning at 7
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1:18 PM ET Maryland is adding linebacker Shaq Smith, a graduate transfer from Clemson who appeared in every game last season for the national champions. Smith, a Baltimore native, is eligible to play immediately for Maryland. It’s not immediately clear whether he will have one or two years of eligibility with the Terrapins. He recorded
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12:34 PM ET Former Auburn and Akron coach Terry Bowden will assist Clemson’s football staff as an unpaid intern while he pursues a graduate degree at the school. Bowden, 63, is enrolled in a graduate program for athletic leadership at Clemson, a spokesman told ESPN. Bowden spent the past seven seasons coaching Akron, where he
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11:46 AM BST South Africa’s national rugby union has announced a new contracting model as it attempts to develop “greater national and provincial alignment” and “improved succession planning” at Springboks level. SA Rugby will no longer contract Springboks Test players centrally, as it has done since rugby union turned professional in 1996, while the provincial
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10:08 AM ET Former world champion Nico Rosberg thinks the controversial penalty which cost Sebastian Vettel victory at the Canadian Grand Prix was entirely justified. 1 Related Vettel was hit with a five-second time penalty in the closing stages of the race for an incident with Lewis Hamilton on lap 48. Vettel had run wide
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