Month: July 2019

10:38 PM ET Associated Press GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Jim Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who shocked and angered the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book “Ball Four,” has died. He was 80. Bouton’s family said he died Wednesday at the home he shared with wife Paula Kurman. He fought a brain
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9:31 PM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Former Tennessee Titans star defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth, 38, is suffering from kidney failure and has taken to Instagram to announce that he is in “dire need” of locating
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8:49 PM ET Associated Press YORK, Pa. — “Robot umpires” have arrived. The independent Atlantic League became the first American professional baseball league to let a computer call balls and strikes Wednesday night at its all-star game. Plate umpire Brian deBrauwere wore an earpiece connected to an iPhone in his pocket and relayed the call
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8:17 PM ET Oklahoma added another talented offensive lineman to its 2020 class on Wednesday with ESPN 300 lineman Andrew Raym. The No. 55 ranked recruit overall, Raym had a top five of Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Oklahoma and Texas A&M, but elected to choose the Sooners as his future destination. The 6-foot-4, 309-pound prospect is
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8:11 PM ET The first fight of Bellator’s upcoming featherweight tournament is booked, and it involves the promotion’s current 145-pound champion. Patricio “Pitbull” Freire vs. Juan Archuleta for the Bellator featherweight title is set for Sept. 28 at the Forum in Inglewood, California, sources told ESPN. The fight will be one of eight first-round tournament
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7:52 PM ET Light heavyweight world titleholder Dmitry Bivol has had a nice break since his one-sided unanimous decision over Joe Smith Jr. on March 9 in Verona, New York, and returned to training this week in Los Angeles. Bivol, who has made five title defenses, has no particular fight lined up said but his
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6:08 PM ET The Boston Celtics on Wednesday waived big man Guerschon Yabusele, a fan favorite who had averaged only 2.3 points and 1.4 rebounds over two seasons. Yabusele was one of the Celtics’ three first-round draft picks in 2016, at No. 16. They had taken forward Jaylen Brown with the No. 3 pick. Yabusele,
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