Month: February 2021

2:45 PM ET The Pittsburgh Penguins dramatically reshaped their front office Tuesday, hiring Brian Burke as president of hockey operations and Ron Hextall as the team’s new general manager. “We feel incredibly lucky to bring in two highly-respected executives with a combined 50-plus years of NHL management experience,” said Penguins president and CEO David Morehouse,
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9:56 AM ET Tottenham Hotspur head coach Jose Mourinho has expressed his sympathy for referee Mike Dean after receiving death threats and said he spoke with on-loan defender Ryan Sessegnon following his own experience of online abuse. Dean will not take charge of a Premier League game this weekend after his request for time off
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2:27 PM GMT Kyle Sinckler and Mako Vunipola have been added to the England squad for Saturday’s Six Nations game against Italy, the Rugby Football Union (EFU) said on Tuesday. The two props missed the 11-6 defeat at the hands of Scotland on Saturday at Twickenham. – Play ESPN’s Rugby Pick’em for FREE Sinckler was
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2:10 PM GMT Wales have a quadruple injury blow ahead of their Six Nations clash with Scotland in Edinburgh on Saturday, with loose-forward Dan Lydiate one of those ruled out for an extended period. Lydiate injured an anterior cruciate ligament in his knee and has been ruled out of the remainder of the Six Nations
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1:33 PM ET Associated Press Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington has tested positive for the coronavirus and has withdrawn from the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Harrington missed the cut last week at the Phoenix Open, ending his streak of seven consecutive cuts made worldwide. The Irishman is the fifth player this year in six PGA
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4:58 PM ET Set to become an unrestricted free agent in March, San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman‘s next NFL stop is likely to be his last. Sherman, who will be 33 in March and has long maintained that he wants to play until he’s 35, told Stephen A. Smith on his ESPN+ show Stephen
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6:25 PM ET Indiana Pacers assistant coach Bill Bayno has resigned, citing mental health, sources told ESPN on Monday. Bayno, 58, began a leave of absence two weeks ago and worked through terms of a departure with the organization in recent days. Bayno has privately described a need to step away from the pressures and
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12:29 PM ET Associated Press More than a decade after Annika Sorenstam won her last LPGA Tour event, she’s ready to tee it up again. The LPGA Tour announced on Twitter the 50-year-old Sorenstam has committed to play the Gainbridge LPGA in Orlando, Florida, scheduled for Feb. 25-28 on her home course of Lake Nona.
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11:40 AM ET For the first time in major professional competition, distance-measuring devices will be allowed this year at the three major championships run by the PGA of America: The PGA Championship, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and the Kitchen Aid Senior PGA Championship. The devices, which are used extensively in amateur and recreational play,
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