Month: October 2019

10:26 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” HOUSTON — Forget the bat flip. The newest innovation in baseball celebrations is the bat carry. After hitting a first-inning, go-ahead home run in Game 6 of the World Series on Tuesday
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9:43 PM ET The highly anticipated middleweight title fight between Israel Adesanya and Paulo Costa is in jeopardy. Costa underwent surgery on his left biceps in early October, his manager, Wallid Ismail, told ESPN. UFC president Dana White first revealed the surgery news on the YouTube show “The Schmo and The Pro.” According to Ismail,
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8:44 PM ET Penn State starting defensive tackle Antonio Shelton will be suspended for the Nittany Lions’ Nov. 9 game against Minnesota, coach James Franklin announced Tuesday night. Shelton appeared to spit on a Michigan State player and was ejected at the 7:30 mark of the fourth quarter against the Spartans on Saturday. The Big
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8:38 PM ET ESPN News Services MIAMI — Atlanta guard Trae Young left the Hawks‘ game in Miami on Tuesday night early in the second quarter with a sprained right ankle. X-rays were negative, and there’s optimism that the injury isn’t serious, league sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Young will undergo an MRI soon. Young
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7:58 PM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The New York Jets didn’t make any deadline trades Tuesday, but they have a mess to clean up — a potential rift between star safety Jamal Adams and first-year general manager Joe Douglas. Adams attacked Douglas on Twitter late Tuesday, saying he told Douglas last week that he
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7:14 PM ET A former UFC title contender is headed to Bellator. Cat Zingano has signed a multifight deal with the promotion and will compete in Bellator’s featherweight division. Her debut date and opponent are unknown. The 37-year-old Zingano (10-4) was somewhat surprisingly released from the UFC in August when the two sides couldn’t agree
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