10:46 AM ET ESPN News Services Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Jake Muzzin is expected to miss about four weeks after suffering a broken right hand during Tuesday’s game, according to the team. Muzzin, 31, was injured when he took a puck off his hand late in the second period and did not play in the
10:11 AM ET The Milwaukee Brewers have signed right-hander Freddy Peralta to a five-year contract extension, a source told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. According to Passan, the deal is worth $15.5 million guaranteed and includes two club options. Peralta was 7-3 with a 5.29 ERA in 39 appearances (eight starts) for the Brewers in 2019, when
3:47 PM GMT South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl first vs Australia South Africa will chase in the deciding T20 against Australia in a bid to win a first series since March 2019 without a specialist opener. Temba Bavuma has not recovered from the hamstring injury that has kept him out of
10:37 AM ET Penn State coach James Franklin’s new six-year contract with the school will pay him up to $38.2 million plus incentive bonuses, the school announced Wednesday. Penn State initially announced a new six-year deal for Franklin in December, but did not disclose terms. Franklin will earn $5.4 million in base salary and supplemental
8:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” In 2009, before he was drafted by the Los Angeles Angels, Mike Trout had committed to play baseball at East Carolina University. Because Trout has gone on to have the most historically
8:51 AM ET CONFUSION REIGNS AS the Utah Jazz jog back on defense. Mike Conley is scurrying across the floor in search of someone to guard. It is Monday night in Salt Lake City, and the Phoenix Suns are pushing the ball up the floor after a routine defensive rebound early in the fourth quarter.
6:00 AM ET ALAMEDA, Calif. — Al Davis was chastising reporters in a hotel lobby at the 2009 NFL owners meetings for not voting Jim Plunkett into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Davis wondered aloud which other quarterback with multiple Super Bowl titles had yet to be enshrined in Canton when some funny guy
8:56 AM ET Vietnam Grand Prix organisers have insisted the country’s debut Formula One race will go ahead as planned despite the ongoing spread of coronavirus. Hanoi will host Vietnam’s first grand prix on April 5, two weeks before the Chinese Grand Prix was supposed to take place — the Shanghai event has been postponed
8:32 AM ET ESPN News Services Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova has announced her retirement. “Tennis — I’m saying goodbye,” she wrote in an essay that appeared Wednesday in Vogue and Vanity Fair. Sharapova turned pro in 2001 at age 14. She won Wimbledon in 2004, the US Open in 2006, the Australian Open
8:42 AM ET Georgia defensive lineman Devonte Wyatt was arrested late Tuesday night on a misdemeanor charge of family violence criminal trespass. Wyatt, a senior from Decatur, Georgia, was still being held at the Athens-Clarke County Jail on Wednesday. His bond was set at $1,500. “I’m disappointed in the misconduct that is outlined in the