Month: March 2021

6:15 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball on Thursday outlined a litany of experimental rules it plans to implement at different minor league levels this season, including banning some forms of defensive shifts, more games governed
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7:44 PM ET Jordan Binnington bet on himself and won a lucrative new contract with the St. Louis Blues. The 27-year-old goalie agreed to a six-year contract extension worth $36 million on Thursday. His average annual contract value of $6 million is a jump up from his current AAV of $4.4 million. His cap hit
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6:30 PM ET Associated Press New Orleans Pelicans guard JJ Redick underwent a nonsurgical procedure Thursday to relieve inflammation and soreness in his right heel and will be out of the lineup for at least a week. The Pelicans said Redick will remain away from the team and continue to adhere to the NBA’s health
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5:06 PM ET Valdosta High School placed football coach Rush Propst on administrative leave on Tuesday, pending a Georgia High School Association investigation into allegations that he arranged for improper benefits to players’ parents to move with their sons into the school district and other misconduct, sources confirmed to ESPN. Propst declined comment when contacted
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8:04 PM ET ESPN News Services The Chicago Bears have agreed to contract extension with place-kicker Cairo Santos, the team announced Thursday. Sources told ESPN that it’s a five-year deal worth up to $16 million. The final two years of it are voidable, which would bring it to a three-year deal worth a maximum of
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4:05 PM ET Former Baltimore Ravens running back Mark Ingram has reached agreement on a one-year deal worth up to $3 million with the Houston Texans, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Ingram will join a Texans backfield led by starter David Johnson, who agreed to a restructured contract to remain with the team. The
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7:51 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Sergio Garcia rushed to the first tee and raced to the finish line Thursday in The Players Championship. Most importantly, he avoided the kind of wreck that allowed the TPC Sawgrass to live up to its reputation as the course where anything can happen to
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7:42 PM ET The launch of ONE Championship’s women’s atomweight tournament will be on an all-women’s fight card. The four quarterfinal matchups of ONE’s women’s atomweight grand prix will take place May 28 in Singapore, officials told ESPN on Thursday. The event itself will be named ONE: Empower. In the main event, ONE women’s strawweight
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