Month: December 2019

12:48 PM ET Chicago Bulls swingman Otto Porter Jr. will miss at least two more weeks as he continues to deal with a foot injury, the team announced Friday. Porter had an MRI on his left foot Wednesday, and it revealed what the team called “continued bone edema.” The Bulls said Porter will be briefly
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12:31 PM GMT Racing 92 have sacked Fiji international Leone Nakarawa after the player returned to the club late following his involvement in the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Nakarawa was due back at the club on Oct. 28 but instead returned over two weeks later without permission, with the club saying that the 31-year-old showed
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11:59 AM ET Renault Technical director Nick Chester is departing the Formula One team after a difficult season in charge, the team announced on Friday. Chester was also placed on “garden leave”, a move designed to stop top staff with intimate knowledge of the organisation being immediately employed by a rival team. 1 Related Renault
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11:37 AM ET Alistair Overeem and Jairzinho Rozenstruik both made the heavyweight limit for Saturday’s UFC Fight Night main event in Washington, D.C., but one half of the co-main event missed badly at Friday’s weigh-in. One prelim fighter missed weight as well. Overeem (47-17, 1 NC) hit the scale at 248 pounds, and Rozenstruik (9-0)
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11:31 AM ET ESPN News Services STAMFORD, Conn. — While Brian Cashman was descending the outside of a building Friday, the New York Yankees general manager came across a message taped to a 10th-floor window from a fan: Please sign Gerrit Cole. Cashman, whose rappelling adventure has become a holiday tradition, confirmed he met with
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1:24 PM ET Heavyweights Alexander Povetkin and Michael Hunter battled to a fierce draw in world title elimination bout in the co-feature of the Andy Ruiz Jr.-Anthony Joshua rematch on Saturday at Diriyah Stadium in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. They were fighting to become one of the mandatory challengers for the winner of the main event
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10:46 AM ET Tampa Bay Rays left-hander and former Cy Young winner Blake Snell had an immediate and strong reaction when he apparently learned about his team’s reported trade of outfielder Tommy Pham to the San Diego Padres. “We gave Pham up for Renfroe and a damn slapd— prospect?” Snell said during a Twitch stream
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11:16 AM GMT Former rugby players in New Zealand are being asked to donate their brains to research when they die as part of a study aimed at learning about the long-term effects of concussion and head injuries from contact sports. The Centre for Brain Research (CBR) at the University of Auckland launched the initiative
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