10:48 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson is as curious as anyone to see how new manager Tony La Russa will react the first time he flips his bat following a big home run. Anderson also made a few things clear. He won’t change to suit the Hall of
10:11 PM ET The Chicago Bears have been cleared by the NFL to resume football-related activities at their team facility on Friday, the team announced. The Bears paused all in-person work and closed Halas Hall on Thursday morning after another player tested positive for COVID-19. The Bears finished the day by holding virtual meetings as
11:27 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — For the San Francisco 49ers players remaining from 2018, Thursday’s game probably dredged up many unwanted but familiar feelings. Decimated by injuries and with the new twist provided by the COVID-19 pandemic making matters worse, the Niners opened Thursday night’s 34-17 blowout loss to the Green Bay Packers
9:57 PM ET The NFL has fined the Las Vegas Raiders $500,000, coach Jon Gruden $150,000 and also took a 2021 sixth-round pick from the team for repeated COVID-19 protocol violations late in October, sources confirmed to ESPN. Sources told ESPN’s Dan Graziano that the penalties, which were first reported by Yahoo, are the result
9:29 PM ET Corey Anderson‘s Bellator debut could not have gone more perfectly. Anderson destroyed combat sports veteran Melvin Manhoef via TKO at 2:34 of the second round in the main event of Bellator 251 on Thursday night. The card took place in a bubble setting at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. Anderson, one of
9:10 PM ET We are now through eight weeks of the NFL season — basically, the halfway point. And while it has been a season unlike any other, games have, in fact, been played for eight weeks. Not always in the order expected, but we do have a really good sample size. One of the
8:40 PM ET Aaron Rodgers to Davante Adams. Put it on repeat. Four days after he caught three touchdown passes for the Green Bay Packers against the Minnesota Vikings, Adams went back to work almost immediately Thursday night against the host San Francisco 49ers. He stretched out to haul in a 36-yard touchdown that survived
8:03 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Brandt Snedeker found a lot of fairways and greens at difficult Memorial Park, top-ranked Dustin Johnson returned from the coronavirus, and fans were back, too, Thursday at the Houston Open. Snedeker shot a 5-under 65 in the afternoon to take a two-stroke lead in the last event before
7:37 PM ET Four Atlanta Braves players highlighted this year’s Silver Slugger Awards, which were unveiled Thursday by Major League Baseball in honor of the best offensive players at every position in each league. Winning from the Braves were Ronald Acuna Jr., Freddie Freeman and Marcell Ozuna, who each won the award for the second
7:37 PM ET HENDERSON, Nev. — Las Vegas Raiders right tackle Trent Brown was returned to the reserve/COVID-19 list on Thursday, the second time he has been on the list after testing positive for the coronavirus two weeks ago. The Raiders made the move because Brown still has complications from the illness. Brown had come