6:06 PM ET ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Oakland Raiders have told veteran defensive end Bruce Irvin they will release him, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, ending a star-crossed 2½-year tenure with the team. Irvin was not on Saturday’s NFL wire, meaning he now cannot be released until 4 p.m. Monday. If and when
Month: November 2018
5:54 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas — West Virginia wide receiver David Sills V was flagged for taunting after flashing a double Horns Down gesture at the Texas crowd following a touchdown catch Saturday against the Longhorns. The Big 12 has no language in its rulebook addressing gestures, only prohibiting athletes from “committing verbally or physically
5:13 PM ET Joel AndersonESPN COLLEGE PARK, Md. — One of the two Maryland players involved in a fight at the end of practice earlier this week has not returned to the team since the altercation, interim head coach Matt Canada said Saturday. Canada said he wasn’t sure if or when Matt Barber, a senior
4:46 PM ET BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Chicago Bears placed three-time Pro Bowl right guard Kyle Long on injured reserve due to a right foot injury, the team announced Saturday. Long suffered tendon damage in the foot during last Sunday’s win over the Jets. “That’s my guy,” Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky said of Long after
5:46 PM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — The Arizona Cardinals released quarterback Sam Bradford on Saturday. Bradford signed with Arizona as a free agent in March and received a $10 million signing bonus, about $2.5 million in base salary and another $1 million in playing-time bonuses for a total of $13.5 million. He was scheduled to
5:02 PM ET Dave McMenamin PORTLAND, Ore. — With the Los Angeles Lakers preparing to play their first game since news emerged of coach Luke Walton’s heated meeting with president of basketball of operations Magic Johnson, LeBron James said his focus — and his team’s — remains solely on winning. “It doesn’t bother me at
3:50 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Game Winner’s latest triumph included bumps along the way. The colt shook them off before shaking the field to remain perfect and make his case as the year’s best 2-year-old. Game Winner overcame an early bump to surge down the stretch, then pulled away from long shot
8:00 PM ET LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It was getting late in the day, and trainer John Sadler’s 0-for-43 record at the Breeders’ Cup was starting to loom large. Expert Eye had run down Catapult to nose him out in the stretch of the Breeders’ Cup Mile. Favored Catalina Cruiser didn’t show up in the Dirt
3:09 PM ET Associated Press CAGUAS, Puerto Rico — Hundreds of arms stretched into the sky in the hometown of Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora on Saturday, as fans took pictures and video of the first man from Puerto Rico to lead a team to a World Series championship. Cora held up the trophy
6:40 PM ET Before there was Baseball-Reference.com, there was “The Bill James Handbook,” the annual statistical compilation of the baseball season. The “Handbook” still exists, and it’s still wonderful — 600 pages of stats and essays and delightful nuggets of information. As always, the bulk of the book is the player register — career numbers