Month: October 2019

1:16 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” WASHINGTON — At 11:24 p.m. on Tuesday, less than half an hour after Trent Grisham committed the error that cost the Milwaukee Brewers their season, the man he replaced approached his locker
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10:03 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS — Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins offered a mea culpa to receiver Adam Thielen after he failed to connect with his teammate on a handful of plays during Minnesota’s 16-6 loss at Chicago in Week 4. Thielen was a guest on Cousins’ weekly show “Under Center with Kirk Cousins” that airs on
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9:23 PM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Of all the additions the Los Angeles Lakers made this offseason, it’s two centers — Dwight Howard and JaVale McGee — who are standing out the most to first-year coach Frank Vogel. “Our centers have really impressed me,” Vogel said Tuesday at the conclusion of his team’s sixth
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11:11 PM ET Matthew Willis Sunday, after the checkered flag falls, is always one of the saddest times of the NASCAR season. I’m talking, of course, that I can no longer use the term Roval for another season. What, you think I was referring to the elimination of four drivers from the playoffs? Sad for
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7:03 PM ET The UFC has added a lightweight fight between Kevin Lee and Gregor Gillespie to its UFC 244 pay-per-view event on Nov. 2, promotion officials said Tuesday. UFC 244 is scheduled to take place at Madison Square Garden, in Gillespie’s home state. Lee (17-5) is a longtime lightweight but moved up to the
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6:04 PM ET Bantamweight contender Joshua Greer Jr. will take on former world title challenger Antonio Nieves in his next fight. Top Rank announced Greer-Nieves as the co-feature on Tuesday for the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ show headlined by the Shakur Stevenson-Joet Gonzalez vacant featherweight world title fight on Oct. 26 (ESPN+, main card
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5:53 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN METAIRIE, La. — New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson didn’t want to have any miscues on his first official day of practice. So there were no windmill dunks. No dribbling between the legs. He just wanted to be one of the guys. “It’s the first practice,” Williamson said Tuesday. “I’m
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4:10 PM ET A Houston furniture salesman, attempting to mitigate millions of dollars in potential refunds from a promotion, placed one of the largest bets ever taken by a U.S. bookmaker on Tuesday at a Mississippi sportsbook. Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale, owner of Gallery Furniture in Houston, bet $3.5 million on the Astros to win
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5:39 PM ET Veteran safety Mike Adams‘ NFL career will continue into a 16th season. Adams signed with the Houston Texans on Tuesday. He had recently worked out for the team. The Texans waived tight end Jerell Adams in a corresponding move. Adams, who turned 38 in March, started all 32 regular-season games the past
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