Month: November 2019

9:56 PM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — The Los Angeles Rams play the Baltimore Ravens on Monday Night Football. It’s a critical game for the 6-4 Rams, who desperately need
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8:44 PM ET Antonio Brown is countersuing Britney Taylor for defamation and interference with his NFL contracts and endorsements, according to documents obtained by ESPN. Brown, the subject of an NFL investigation over Taylor’s claims of rape and sexual assault, is denying the accusations against him and requesting a jury trial. Taylor had served Brown
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8:30 PM ET The Jacoby Ellsbury and Greg Bird eras in New York are officially over. The Yankees on Wednesday gave up on Ellsbury, cutting the oft-injured outfielder with more than $26 million left in his $153 million, seven-year contract. Ellsbury, who has not played since 2017, was released to clear a 40-man roster spot
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6:38 PM ET Starting last Sunday, dozens of high school football players around the country posted messages about receiving “offers” from Florida Gulf Coast University. There’s only one problem: FGCU doesn’t have an intercollegiate football team. It only has a club team. On Wednesday, FGCU officials said in a statement that they had been notified
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5:00 PM ET Three fighters who competed in the PFL playoffs last month failed drug tests and are facing discipline from the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC). Glaico Franca and Luis Rafael Laurentino both tested positive for the banned steroid stanozolol and Ramsey Nijem tested positive for marijuana, NSAC chief assistant Jeff Mullen told ESPN
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4:44 PM ET ESPN News Services The Toronto Maple Leafs have fired coach Mike Babcock on Wednesday amid a 9-10-4 start to the season and announced Sheldon Keefe as his replacement. Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan made the announcement. The Maple Leafs are in the midst of a five-game losing streak, the team’s longest losing
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4:30 PM ET Junior middleweight world titlist Jaime Munguia, who all along planned to move up in weight in 2020, will do so for his next fight. Munguia, one of boxing’s most crowd-pleasing battlers, will move up to the 160-pound middleweight division to fight Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan, a fellow brawler but prohibitive underdog, in a
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