Month: January 2020

6:07 PM ET The Cincinnati Reds have signed Japanese outfielder Shogo Akiyama to a three-year, $21 million contract. The Reds, who announced the contract Monday, reportedly agreed to the deal with Akiyama last week. Akiyama, 31, needed to travel from Japan to Cincinnati and take a physical before the Reds announced the deal, according to
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5:36 PM ET The Washington Nationals and first baseman Eric Thames are in agreement on a one-year, $4 million contract, a source familiar with the deal told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Thames, 33, batted .247 last season with 25 home runs and 61 RBIs for the Brewers. The left-handed-hitting Thames will likely share time at first
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5:18 PM ET ESPN News Services BLACKSBURG, Va. — Virginia Tech running back Deshawn McClease says he’s leaving school early to enter the NFL draft. McClease made the announcement Monday on Twitter in which he thanked the coaching staff for playing “a major role in my transition from a boy to the man I am
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5:00 PM ET Jade Roper-Tolbert, a past contestant on the reality TV series “The Bachelor,” won a $1 million fantasy football contest over the weekend, but controversy ensued shortly after and an investigation has been launched. Tolbert, who is in her first season regularly playing fantasy sports, entered the maximum 150 lineups into the DraftKings’
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4:44 PM ET Featherweight world titleholder Gary Russell Jr. will come out of his annual hibernation to take on mandatory challenger Tugstsogt “King Tug” Nyambayar on Feb. 8, Premier Boxing Champions announced on Monday. The fight, which will headline a “Showtime Championship Boxing” tripleheader (Showtime, 9 p.m. ET), will take place at the PPL Center
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4:12 PM ET Jorge Masvidal would rather take a big-money fight against Conor McGregor in his next bout than get a title shot against welterweight champ Kamaru Usman. “I know my management without a doubt would say, and I would also say, the Conor fight,” Masvidal said on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show on Monday. “We’ll
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2:29 PM ET Steve KimESPN Canelo Alvarez’s next fight likely will be on May 2, tying in with the Cinco De Mayo holiday, which has become a traditional date for the Mexican superstar, according to Golden Boy Promotions president Eric Gomez. “That’s his weekend,” said Gomez, who says that where they will take this event
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1:33 PM GMT Exeter Chiefs have donated the £350,000 given to them after Saracens’ salary cap ban to charity, the club have announced. Saracens were deducted 35 points and fined £5.3 million in November after an independent disciplinary panel said that the club failed to disclose player payments in each of the last three seasons.
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12:09 PM GMT Toulon scrum-half Rhys Webb has possibly made his last appearance for the club, owner Bernard Lemaitre said on Sunday Ospreys announced last week that Webb would be rejoining them next season after Toulon agreed to release him a year early from his contract. 1 Related However, majority owner Bernard Lemaitre told France’s
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