1:27 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina will play Akron at home on Dec. 1 to make up for its September contest canceled due to Hurricane Florence. The Gamecocks announced the schedule addition Friday. South Carolina was scheduled to face Marshall on Sept. 15 but called the game off in midweek as
1:04 PM ET Former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach Jim Boylan filed a lawsuit Thursday against the team alleging age discrimination after his option wasn’t picked up for this season. In the lawsuit Boylan, 63, provides a transcript of a voicemail left by former head coach Tyronn Lue from last June informing him the team was
Nov 2, 2018 Light heavyweight world titleholder Artur Beterbiev’s defense against Joe Smith Jr. will take place on Dec. 15 at Madison Square Garden in New York, their promoters told ESPN. The fight will take place on the undercard of unified middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez’s rise in weight to challenge secondary super middleweight titlist
1:27 PM ET Adrian Wojnarowski Dave McMenamin Close ESPN Staff Writer Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. In a meeting on Tuesday, following a winless two-game trip, Los Angeles Lakers president Magic Johnson
11:57 AM BST England centre Manu Tuilagi has been ruled out of Saturday’s Test against South Africa after suffering a groin strain. Tuilagi’s space among the replacements will be taken by Chris Ashton. England’s injury crisis showed no signs of abating with Tuilagi the latest to be ruled out of their November internationals opener against
2:53 PM ET Andre SnellingsESPN You’re in a weekly transaction league, and you need to decide by Monday evening who your starting lineup will be for the week. Should you consider sitting usual impact starters like DeMar DeRozan or LaMarcus Aldridge? Or perhaps starting someone like Eric Gordon or Frank Ntilikina, who might generally be
11:41 AM ET ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane publicly committed to keeping running back LeSean McCoy on the roster next season. With the trade deadline imminent, Monday could have been LeSean McCoy’s swan song in Buffalo. If so, it wasn’t a memorable finale. Beane told The Buffalo News that McCoy
6:11 PM ET ESPN News Services The Chicago Cubs have picked up the option on left-hander Cole Hamels‘ contract for the 2019 season, the team announced Friday. The Cubs exercised their $6.25 million option for Pedro Strop on Thursday, and fellow reliever Brandon Kintzler picked up his $5 million player option. The Cubs also traded
10:34 AM ET Madison Keys advanced to the semifinals of the WTA Elite Trophy despite losing to Qiang Wang in her final group match on Friday. Chinese No.1 Qiang fought from a set down to win 1-6, 6-3, 6-1 but it wasn’t enough to prevent Keys from topping the Azalea group and joining Garbine Muguruza,
1:00 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The first month of the 2018-19 season is in the books, which means it’s time for hasty reactions and prognostications about the NHL awards. Here are my picks for the NHL awards as we hit November, as a Professional Hockey Writers Association voter and through a dozen conversations with those