5:14 PM ET NEW YORK — While the owners and Major League Baseball players intend to collectively bargain for the terms of their next agreement, one group will not be at the table during those discussions: minor leaguers. While Major League Baseball recently announced improved housing conditions across all levels of the minor leagues —
5:02 PM ET Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Sabres addressed their suddenly thin depth in goal by acquiring Malcolm Subban in a trade with the Blackhawks on Thursday. The move became necessary when goaltender Dustin Tokarski was placed in the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen was recalled from AHL Rochester to join the Sabres
5:17 PM ET Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall announced Thursday he will step down after the team’s upcoming bowl game. Mendenhall, 55, said it was solely his decision to leave. “I would love to say there’s been this buildup and a long amount of epiphanies and thought, but clearly this week there was a sense
4:09 PM ET Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown has been suspended three games for violating the NFL-NFLPA’s COVID-19 protocols, the league announced Thursday. The league and players’ union found that Brown was among three players to misrepresent their vaccination status. A former personal chef of Brown’s said earlier this month that the wide
4:27 PM ET Lincoln Riley flipped another football recruit from Oklahoma on Thursday, when ESPN 300 running back Raleek Brown committed to USC. Brown is the No. 60-ranked recruit overall and the No. 6-ranked running back, out of Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California. He had been committed to Oklahoma, but decommitted from
1:31 PM ET Sebastian Vettel organised a karting event for women in Saudi Arabia this week ahead of the country’s first Formula One race. The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will take place in Jeddah on Sunday against a backdrop of accusations of “sportswashing” by human rights groups. One of the controversies is over rights for
1:16 PM ET NEW YORK — Within minutes of locking out players Thursday amid contentious negotiations on the next collective bargaining agreement, Major League Baseball scrubbed all remnants of player likenesses off its official properties such as MLB.com, replacing player photos with generic silhouettes. In response, players decided to lean all the way in. Players
2:53 PM ET Associated Press MADRID — Daniil Medvedev maintained his perfect record at the Davis Cup Finals to put Russia into the last four. Medvedev defeated Mikael Ymer 6-4, 6-4 Thursday to give Russia an insurmountable 2-0 lead over Sweden in the quarterfinals of the revamped team event. Andrey Rublev earlier outlasted Elias Ymer,
1:48 PM ET Associated Press BLACKSBURG, Va. — Brent Pry’s voice cracked with emotion as he detailed the career journey he’s been on, one that has brought him back to Blacksburg as Virginia Tech‘s head football coach. “I’m honored and humbled,” he said Thursday at a news conference. “It’s very surreal for me.” After spending
1:32 PM ET East Carolina, which has secured a winning season for the first time in seven years, has locked up head coach Mike Houston with an extension through 2026 that averages $2.3 million annually, sources told ESPN on Thursday. The value of his new five-year deal is worth $11.5 million, sources told ESPN. Houston’s