Month: January 2020

9:19 PM ET ESPN News Services MELBOURNE, Australia — Wimbledon champion Simona Halep reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open with a straight-sets win over Elise Mertens on Monday. Halep appeared to be cruising after winning the first set and going up a service break in the second, but Mertens broke back to level the
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2:58 PM ET NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter were among five people killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, on Sunday, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Bryant was 41. Bryant was on his way to a travel basketball game with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Bryant when the helicopter crashed, sources
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7:13 PM ET ORLANDO — Lamar Jackson headed to Orlando for the Pro Bowl with one goal in mind: Soak up as much as he could. That meant not the Central Florida sunshine (which finally appeared on Friday) but any and all information from the rest of the Pro Bowlers. Although he’s likely going to
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6:04 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — What started as just another Pro Bowl quickly turned into a tribute to NBA legend Kobe Bryant. News that Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among several people killed in a helicopter crash Sunday morning in California broke shortly before the Pro Bowl game began. The players found out
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6:42 PM ET Orange Coast College baseball coaching legend John Altobelli was among the victims in Sunday’s helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, that also killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant. Altobelli was a coach at OCC for 27 years, leading the Pirates to four state titles and notching more than 700 wins. He was 56. “John
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