Month: January 2020

3:52 PM GMT ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Saracens interim chief executive Edward Griffiths has resigned after less than a month in the role, the Gallagher Premiership have announced. Griffiths had re-signed as chief executive on a one-year contract, having previously left in 2015, after Nigel Wray retired earlier this month. 1
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2:30 PM ET Associated Press BELLEFONTE, Pa. — A judge flatly rejected Jerry Sandusky’s latest request to have his 30- to 60-year child molestation sentence reduced during a brief hearing Tuesday. Judge Maureen Skerda said she purposely fashioned the prison term to have an impact on the former Penn State assistant football coach and noted
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1:56 PM GMT Ireland captain Johnny Sexton is set to start the team’s Six Nations opener against Scotland this weekend after recovering from a knee injury. Fly-half Sexton has not played since hobbling off while playing for Leinster in a Champions Cup game against Northampton in early December, but last week the 34-year-old confirmed his
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9:22 PM ET Nick DePaulaESPN In the wake of Kobe Bryant’s death, Nike has confirmed that it has sold out of all Kobe-related items from its Nike.com webstore, company sources told ESPN on Tuesday. Initially, a company source had specified that Nike had taken down existing items. For now, searches for Bryant’s products provide one
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12:45 PM ET The Chicago Cubs finally have their first big league signing of the winter as they inked reliever Jeremy Jeffress to a one-year contract Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the deal. A source tells ESPN’s Jeff Passan the deal is worth $800,000 with as much as $200,000 in incentives. Jeffress, 32,
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12:12 PM ET The PFL has announced a series of new, one-night tournaments around the globe, that will ultimately feed five new athletes into its 2020 regular season roster. The promotion has partnered with five separate organizations in United Arab Emirates, Russia, Germany, Brazil and Australia. Each international promotion will host a four-man tournament in
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10:57 AM ET The Pittsburgh Penguins have reached a five-year contract extension with defenseman Marcus Pettersson, the team announced Tuesday. The extension begins next season and has an average annual value of $4 million. The 23-year-old has tallied three goals and 31 assists since he was acquired from the Anaheim Ducks in December 2018. This
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