Month: August 2019

1:07 AM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Pete Alonso and Amed Rosario helped the New York Mets pile up huge totals of hits and runs. The Mets needed almost all of them to hold off the homer-happy Atlanta Braves. Alonso drove in six runs with five hits, including a three-run homer that helped lead to
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11:15 PM ET Associated Press BRISTOL, Tenn. — Brett Moffitt pulled away on a restart with three laps to go and won the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series’ playoff opener Thursday night at Bristol Motor Speedway to earn a spot in the Round of 6. Moffitt finished 0.743 seconds ahead of 17-year-old Chandler Smith for
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9:34 PM ET Less than a year ago, Emanuel Navarrete was a little-known fighter harboring dreams familiar to most boxers. He wanted to win a world title. He got the opportunity to challenge heavily favored junior featherweight world titlist Isaac Dogboe in December and defeated him by unanimous decision to claim a 122-pound world title.
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9:23 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Brett Yormark, who has served as CEO of the Brooklyn Nets for more than a decade, will step down from his post, league sources confirmed to ESPN. Yormark has been in the role since 2005, when he came to the Nets from NASCAR, and helped usher the franchise to Brooklyn
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8:30 PM ET Associated Press PINEHURST, N.C. — Austin Squires advanced to the U.S. Amateur quarterfinals for the second straight year after winning two matches Thursday. The former Cincinnati player beat Stefano Mazzoli in 19 holes in the round of 32, then topped John Pak 2 and 1 in the round of 16 at Pinehurst
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8:05 PM ET ESPN News Services MEDINAH, Ill. — On the range, Justin Thomas had no idea where the ball was going. Some five hours later, he had a share of the course record at Medinah. Ultimately, all that mattered Thursday in the BMW Championship was taking a good step toward an important goal. Thomas
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6:17 PM ET Ten of the 13 members of the College Football Playoff selection committee are recused from voting for certain schools this season, according to a release on Thursday from the CFP. The recusal policy remains the same as it has in the past five years, stating, “A recused member is permitted to answer
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5:54 PM ET LOS ANGELES — After a disappointing 2018 season, USC Trojans athletic director Lynn Swann said the expectation is for the program and coach Clay Helton to win a conference championship in 2019. “The expectation is that we’re going to win the Pac-12 championship,” Swann said after Thursday’s ribbon ceremony for the recent
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5:35 PM ET COSTA MESA, Calif. — In his first comments on Melvin Gordon‘s holdout situation since the start of training camp, Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers sought to clear the air about any possible friction between himself and the workhorse running back. “I know Melvin knows I’m pulling for him,” Rivers said. “And
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