Month: April 2021

Matt Parkinson was playing his first County Championship game since 2019 © Getty Images Matt Parkinson, the Lancashire legspinner, went viral on Friday after bowling a ball-of-the-century contender to Northamptonshire’s Adam Rossington in a County Championship fixture at Old Trafford, which evoked Shane Warne’s dismissal of Mike Gatting at the same ground in 1993. The
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1:39 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The average major league salary dropped 4.8% to just under $4.17 million on Opening Day from the start of the previous full season in 2019. The average has fallen 6.4% since the start of the 2017 season, when it peaked at $4.45 million, according to a study
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1:46 AM ET Associated Press Assistant coach Joel Johnson is taking over the United States women’s national hockey team after Bob Corkum abruptly stepped down less than three weeks before the world championships open in Canada. USA Hockey’s director of women’s national team programs Katie Million did not provide a reason for Corkum’s departure in
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1:00 PM ET Players from the Pittsburgh Steelers and Atlanta Falcons on Friday became the latest from the NFL to say that they won’t be reporting to team facilities next week to begin voluntary offseason workouts. The announcements, made via the NFL Players Association, brings the total to 11 teams for which players say they
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12:33 AM ET Associated Press KAPOLEI, Hawaii — Lydia Ko again put herself in position for her first win in three years, shooting a 7-under 65 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead into the final round of the Lotte Championship. Nelly Korda, who went back and forth with Ko for the lead throughout the
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12:42 PM ET Eddie Alvarez is getting right back to work. The former UFC and Bellator lightweight champion will fight at ONE on TNT IV on April 28 in Singapore, sources told ESPN. The bout will take place just three weeks after his last fight for ONE. Alvarez will fight the winner of Marat Gafurov
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Apr 15, 2021 Kamaru Usman was in the corner for Francis Ngannou when Ngannou won the UFC heavyweight title last month. Now, Ngannou will return the favor for his fellow champion friend. Ngannou will be a cornerman for Usman’s welterweight title defense against Jorge Masvidal in the main event of UFC 261 on April 24
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