Month: April 2021

8:00 AM ET Former UConn Huskies coach and 13-year NBA veteran Kevin Ollie has been hired as head coach and director of player development for the Overtime Elite, a new professional basketball league for top prospects between 16 and 18 years old. “I’m ready to get back to what I was born to do: empowering
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9:55 AM ET ESPN News Services Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera has been placed on the 10-day injured list with a left biceps strain that has been bothering him during the early part of this season. Cabrera played first base in Saturday’s 11-3 loss to the Indians. He went 0-for-3 before he was replaced by
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3:45 PM ET METAIRIE, La. — The “King of New Orleans”? Saints coach Sean Payton will be portrayed by comic actor Kevin James in an upcoming Netflix movie titled, “Home Team.” The movie is being produced by Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions. As NBC’s Peter King first reported, the movie will be based on how
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10:04 AM ET One Championship has lost a big American name off a card focused on the United States audience. Sage Northcutt is out of his scheduled bout with legend Shinya Aoki due to lingering effects from COVID-19, sources told ESPN on Monday. Northcutt, a popular former UFC fighter, was scheduled to fight Aoki at
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11:45 AM ET Taylor Hall would like a contract extension with the Boston Bruins, even though the star winger doesn’t want to be the “focal point” of his new team. The Bruins traded for the 29-year-old left wing on Sunday, sending a 2021 second-round pick and forward Anders Bjork to the Buffalo Sabres for Hall
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6:16 AM ET Adriana Garcia Colombian top-flight club Aguilas Doradas started Sunday’s home league game against Boyaca Chico with only seven players due to COVID-19 cases and injuries but ultimately lost, 3-0 as they finished the match with six. The Colombian league, which had approved a rule at the start of the pandemic that forced
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10:16 AM ET Associated Press MADRID — The cities of Innsbruck in Austria and Turin in Italy will co-host the Davis Cup Finals along with the Spanish capital of Madrid this year, the International Tennis Federation said Monday. Madrid was the sole host of the inaugural edition of the revamped event in 2019, and it
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