4:20 PM ET ESPN News Services BUFFALO, N.Y. — Former Buffalo Sabres forward Matt Ellis was hired on Tuesday to become the team’s director of player development under new general manager Kevyn Adams. Though it’s a first-time NHL job for the former nine-year player, Ellis spent the past four years working at Sabres-affiliated Academy of
1:22 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Tiz the Law is the 3-5 morning-line favorite for the 146th Kentucky Derby and will attempt to become the first winner from the No. 17 post position drawn for Saturday’s rescheduled marquee race for 3-year-olds. All the race favorites will break from the outside. Second choice Honor
3:46 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — William Byron, fresh off his first career Cup Series victory, now has a contract extension through 2022 at Hendrick Motorsports. The extension was finalized in early August and announced Tuesday, just days after Byron’s win at Daytona International Speedway earned him a berth in NASCAR’s playoffs. “I’m
3:43 PM ET Associated Press EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The Los Angeles Kings have signed forward Austin Wagner to a three-year, $3.4 million contract extension. The Kings announced the deal Tuesday. Wagner, 23, has spent most of the past two seasons with the Kings, who drafted the physical wing in the fourth round in 2015.
2:52 PM ET Steve KimESPN Naoya Inoue’s Top Rank debut is set. The unified bantamweight titlist and ESPN’s No. 4 pound-for-pound fighter is scheduled to face Jason Moloney (21-1, 18 KOs) at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas this fall, according to Moloney’s manager, Tony Tolj. “We’re still in talks and finalizing the
2:56 PM ET Associated Press ORCIERES-MERLETTE, France — After just four stages at the Tour de France, the balance of power is already clearer: Primoz Roglic and his Jumbo-Visma team are looking like the ones to beat. Roglic, the Spanish Vuelta champion, used the race’s first summit finish Tuesday in the ski resort of Orcieres-Merlette
2:19 PM ET The Washington Football Team continues to scrub away its past, this time renaming two roads — one outside its stadium and another at its practice facility — in honor of Sean Taylor and Joe Gibbs. The organization renamed the road leading into its practice facility Coach Gibbs Drive. The previous franchise nickname
2:38 PM ET A total of 10 NFL players and other team personnel tested positive for the coronavirus during the league’s latest testing period of Aug. 21-29, the NFL and NFL Players Association announced Tuesday. According to the data, four of the positive tests came from players and the other six came from non-player personnel.
2:25 PM ET EAGAN, Minn. — Veteran left tackle Riley Reiff began the process of restructuring his deal Tuesday so he can stay in Minnesota, helping the Vikings avoided a major shake-up late in the preseason with their offensive line, a league source told ESPN’s Field Yates. Terms of the restructure have not been released,
2:57 PM ET Joe Mixon and the Bengals have agreed to a four-year extension that will keep the running back under contract with Cincinnati for five more seasons, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The language of the deal was still being finalized Tuesday afternoon, the source told Schefter. Mixon, a second-round pick in the