Month: August 2018

4:03 PM ET Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Top-ranked Simona Halep has withdrawn from the Connecticut Open, citing a sore right Achilles tendon. The Romanian was scheduled to play Tuesday in New Haven, but says in a statement her Achilles is sore from “two weeks of many matches and I need to recover in
0 Comments
7:00 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Sometimes we wish we could have put two dozen players on each NHL team’s Mount Puckmore, which sought to tell the story of a franchise through the contributions and careers of those selected. Cover all the bases. Honor the honorable mentions. Everyone gets a blue ribbon, a gold star and
0 Comments
11:10 AM ET Two days before his stablemate, unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin, faces Canelo Alvarez in their massively hyped rematch, junior welterweight Ruslan Madiev will kick off the biggest boxing week of the year when he faces Pablo Cesar Cano on Sept. 13 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
0 Comments
2:25 PM ET Already a hot-button issue in the United Kingdom, a controversial bookmaking practice is starting to spread in the U.S.’s growing legal sports betting market, too. Bookmakers from London to Las Vegas are refusing to take bets from a growing number of customers whose only offense might be trying to win. The full
0 Comments
7:00 AM ET Emily KaplanESPN Last year, during training for the International Ice Hockey Federation Under-18 World Championships, Sweden coach Torgny Bendelin had an idea. For a team-building exercise, his players would each reveal something about themselves. One by one, the teenagers shared details about their lives — some intimate, some mundane. And then it
0 Comments
10:57 AM ET ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott said Monday that he and general manager Brandon Beane have discussed the possibility of signing another quarterback as AJ McCarron remains out of practice because of a right shoulder injury. McDermott said Sunday that McCarron was receiving a second opinion on his shoulder
0 Comments