Month: July 2018

2:26 AM ET The Kansas City Royals have traded former All-Star slugger Mike Moustakas to the Milwaukee Brewers for minor league outfielder Brett Phillips and minor league pitcher Jorge Lopez. A key member of the Royals’ 2015 World Series championship team, he became a free agent after last season, then signed a one-year contract with
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11:36 PM BST A wiser NSW Waratahs side is ready for a “mountain” of a Super Rugby challenge under an emerging skipper who’s happy to delegate to his teammates. The Waratahs face the Lions in a Super Rugby semifinal between the Australian and South African conference winners in Johannesburg on Saturday (AEST). Wallabies five-eighth Bernard
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11:31 PM ET Floyd Mayweather has never been shy about branching out into various businesses. His next venture? Franchising gyms. The boxer, who finished his professional career at 50-0 with a knockout of Conor McGregor last August, announced this week how much he would charge for those interested in using his name and to license
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9:36 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. — The Washington Capitals have re-signed right winger Tom Wilson to a $31.02 million, six-year deal. The contract carries a $5.17 million salary-cap hit through the 2023-24 season. General manager Brian MacLellan announced the move Friday night. Signing Wilson was the final need on the Stanley Cup champions’
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10:08 PM ET Nick DePaulaESPN Kanye West had a simple, two-word announcement to his nearly 28 million Twitter followers Friday regarding his Adidas Yeezy sneaker brand: “adding basketball.” adding basketball pic.twitter.com/S61SkXdY7A — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) July 27, 2018 West’s news that the first Yeezy basketball shoe will launch in 2019 was accompanied by a loose
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8:55 PM ET LOS ANGELES — The buildup to the lightweight unification fight between Mikey Garcia and Robert Easter Jr. has been respectful with no trash talk, but when the combatants came face to face at Friday’s weigh-in at Staples Center, things got animated, at least on Easter’s side. Easter, several inches taller than Garcia,
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8:26 PM ET Associated Press OAKVILLE, Ontario — Keegan Bradley played the last four holes in 6 under, making two of his three eagles Friday, to pull within a shot of the lead in the RBC Canadian Open. Bradley holed putts of 10 feet on the par-3 15th, 20 feet on the par-5 16th, 27
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8:41 PM ET OXNARD, Calif. — Free-agent wide receiver Dez Bryant went off on several members of his former team, the Dallas Cowboys, during a series of tweets Friday night. Released in April after an eight-year Cowboys run in which he became the franchise leader in touchdown receptions, Bryant responded to a tweet from SiriusXM
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7:29 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — John Isner advanced to the BB&T Atlanta Open semifinals for the ninth straight year, beating Germany’s Mischa Zverev 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 on Friday. “He is a tough player. I played well today. I needed to,” Isner said. “It was a weird match. The balls were bouncing everywhere —
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