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3:07 PM BST England beat a spirited France 38-33 to win their fifth straight women’s Six Nations title with a Grand Slam in front of a record-breaking crowd at Twickenham on Sunday to give coach Simon Middleton a fitting farewell. With 58,498 fans in attendance, top-ranked side England struggled with nerves at first before pulling
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11:05 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday awarded the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy to the Air Force Academy for winning football games against its rival U.S. service academies. “Simply put, you can’t talk about the soul of the nation without talking about our service academies,” Biden told the team gathered in the
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8:12 AM ET Associated Press INCHEON, South Korea — The Korea Championship has a home player atop the leaderboard after Park Sang-hyun‘s 25-foot putt for birdie to finish his second round Friday. Park shot a 3-under 69 and joined Yannik Paul (68) at 8 under overall at Jack Nicklaus Golf Club. “I want to prove
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3:04 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — The attorney for Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards said his client will “vigorously defend” himself against misdemeanor third-degree assault charges for allegedly swinging a folding chair and injuring two Denver arena employees after the series-ending loss to the Nuggets. Harvey Steinberg, the attorney for Edwards, issued a statement
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11:53 AM ET Jake Paul and his promotions team are launching a new boxing series called Most Valuable Prospects that will highlight top up-and-coming fighters. The series will begin with a card on May 26 in Orlando, Florida, and it will be headlined by rising star Ashton Sylve, officials told ESPN on Thursday. There will
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9:12 PM ET Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes was released from a hospital on Wednesday after experiencing what the school referred to as a “medical event” last Saturday night in Fresno, California. “The Barnes family is beyond grateful for the love, prayers and support shown to them by Beaver Nation and beyond,” a statement
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4:42 PM ET Colorado players who have entered the transfer portal will have access to practice film from 2022 and earlier, the team said Wednesday, in response to players who had been denied access to the footage. Tight end Zachary Courtney and outside linebacker Kaden Ludwick both told ESPN that when asked, the team would
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4:51 PM ET Michigan has built up recruiting momentum after its successful 2022 season and is continuing to reap the benefits in the 2024 cycle. On Tuesday, the Wolverines added ESPN 300 tight end Brady Prieskorn to its class, the No. 92 prospect overall. He’s an in-state recruit out of Rochester Hills, Michigan, and a
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7:56 PM ET Winnipeg Jets star forward Mark Scheifele, who suffered an upper-body injury in the team’s loss to the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday night, is day-to-day and could suit up for Game 5 with the Jets facing elimination. Scheifele left in the first period of Game 4 with the injury. The Jets lost
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3:59 PM ET West Ham United thrashed Arsenal 5-1 in Tuesday’s FA Youth Cup final at the Emirates Stadium to lift the trophy for the first time since 1999. West Ham, who also won this season’s Premier League Under-18 South title, recovered from an early deficit as their young starlets ran wild to record an
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12:37 PM ET BOSTON — Atlanta Hawks guard Dejounte Murray said “a lot” led to him making contact with and shouting at referee Gediminas Petraitis following his team’s Game 4 loss to the Boston Celtics in their Eastern Conference first-round series. The incident led to a one-game suspension for Murray as the Hawks face elimination
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1:18 AM ET ESPN News Services WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Winnipeg Jets forward Mark Scheifele left Monday’s 4-2 loss in Game 4 of their Western Conference first-round series against the Vegas Golden Knights. Scheifele, 30, a first-line center who has one goal this series, suffered an upper-body injury in the first period. “We’ll reevaluate him (Tuesday),”
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4:14 PM ET Demetrious Johnson hasn’t made a decision just yet, but the former longtime UFC champion said his upcoming fight could be the last of his storied career. The all-time great MMA fighter will defend his ONE Championship 135-pound title against Adriano Moraes in a trilogy bout May 5 in Colorado. It’ll be ONE’s
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10:05 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Addressing a primary need before the NFL draft, the New York Jets re-signed starting center Connor McGovern on Monday. Terms of the deal weren’t immediately available. The Jets had been linked to the top centers in the draft as a possibility in the second round. They have two
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12:21 AM ET ATLANTA — When the Boston Celtics emerged from their timeout with about nine minutes remaining in Sunday’s second quarter against the Atlanta Hawks, some started looking around for one of their star teammates. They wondered: Where was Jaylen Brown? Did he disappear? No, he didn’t. But he did change face. At the
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3:54 PM ET ESPN News Services Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes is hospitalized in stable condition Sunday after experiencing what the school called a medical event while attending an awards ceremony at Fresno State the night before. Barnes, 60, was being treated at Saint Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, California. Oregon State provided no
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11:50 AM ET Associated Press MUNICH — Holger Rune defended his BMW Open title with a hard-fought 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (3) win over Botic van de Zandschulp in the final on Sunday. Van de Zandschulp retired from last year’s final with an aching chest, and the 19-year-old Rune was made to work significantly harder to
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