Month: July 2022

11:12 AM BST Tonga advanced to next year’s Rugby World Cup finals after crushing Hong Kong 44-22 on Australia’s Sunshine Coast on Saturday. Sonatane Takulua scored a hat-trick of tries as the Tongans claimed the final berth in Pool B, where they will face defending champions South Africa, Ireland, Scotland and Romania. Hong Kong, who
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8:52 AM ET The Calgary Flames and Florida Panthers swapped 100-point scorers in a blockbuster trade that was sealed late Friday. The Flames traded forward Matthew Tkachuk and a conditional fourth-round draft pick to the Panthers for forward Jonathan Huberdeau, defenseman MacKenzie Weegar, Panthers prospect Cole Schwindt and Florida’s lottery-protected first-round selection in the 2025
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5:02 PM ET Big Ten football players have had conversations with league commissioner Kevin Warren this week about giving athletes a bigger voice in the future and about improving a variety of benefits for players. Warren also spoke with the leader of a nascent players’ association about the possibility of having an independent group represent
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11:38 PM ET Associated Press SUNRISE, Fla. — Matthew Tkachuk and Jonathan Huberdeau had the best years of their career this past season. And now they’re changing places in an NHL blockbuster. Tkachuk was traded to the Florida Panthers on Friday night, with Huberdeau part of the haul going to the Calgary Flames for the
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5:18 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Mets ace Jacob deGrom will make at least one more minor league rehab start before rejoining New York’s rotation. The two-time Cy Young Award winner, sidelined all season by a stress reaction in his right scapula, threw 60 pitches over five innings in a simulated game Thursday
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3:49 PM ET Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Chris Low Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee The NCAA has charged Tennessee’s football program with 18 Level
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9:27 PM ET ESPN News Services KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jim Lynch, the hard-hitting linebacker who helped the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Minnesota Vikings in the 1970 Super Bowl following a standout career at Notre Dame, has died. He was 76. Lynch’s family announced that he died Thursday but did not provide a cause.
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