6:32 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN FRANCISCO — Bryce Harper’s meeting with the Giants in Las Vegas this week was the product of “mutual interest on both sides,” new San Francisco baseball operations chief Farhan Zaidi said Friday. Zaidi would not say whether an offer was extended to the star outfielder. The Giants still
Month: February 2019
5:52 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Jesper Parnevik shot a 9-under 63 on Friday in the Oasis Championship to take a one-stroke lead over Bernhard Langer. Parnevik had four straight birdies on Nos. 4-7 on his final nine on The Old Course at Broken Sound. The 53-year-old Swede won the 2016 Insperity
5:45 PM ET ESPN staff Tomas Berdych reached the Open Sud de France semifinals after saving two match points in a 7-6 (3), 6-7 (5), 7-5 win against Filip Krajinovic on Friday. Berdych, a former champion here, was meeting the Serb for the first time on the ATP tour and the pair made it one
5:59 PM ET ESPN News Services The NBA told the New Orleans Pelicans that if they did sit a healthy Anthony Davis, the team could be subject to a $100,000 fine for every game Davis didn’t play, league sources told ESPN’s Brian Windhorst on Friday. Under rules enacted for last season designed to prevent healthy
5:46 PM ET SOFIA, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Gael Monfils doled out another lesson in outstanding tennis, winning 93 percent of points on his first serve, as he reached the semi-finals of the Sofia Open on Friday with a 6-3 7-6(5) win over Greece’s emerging talent Stefanos Tsitsipas. The experienced Frenchman, who has slipped to
9:29 AM ET Could television speculation turn into free-agency reality for two AFC North rivals? On Friday morning, the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport commented on how the pairing of Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell and Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson “makes sense.” Bell saw a tweet about a potential backfield match with Jackson and
5:27 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka, with all due respect to local suffering L.A. Rams fans following their Super Bowl defeat, thinks his team has some similarities to the world champion New England Patriots. “I think early on they were facing a ton of adversity,” Pelinka said on a conference call
5:11 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Philadelphia Flyers forward James van Riemsdyk on Friday was fined $5,000 by the NHL’s Department of Player Safety for high-sticking Los Angeles Kings defenseman Alec Martinez during Thursday’s game. Van Riemsdyk was docked the maximum amount under the league’s collective bargaining agreement. The high-sticking occurred just over
4:51 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Danny Espinosa and the New York Mets have agreed to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. The veteran switch-hitter gives the Mets even more depth in a crowded infield. He could be a backup option at shortstop behind Amed Rosario. Espinosa spent last
5:15 PM ET Steve KimESPN Richard Commey captured the IBF lightweight title last weekend with a win over Isa Chaniev in Frisco, Texas, but his plans for a unification bout have been postponed. Commey (28-2, 25 KOs) will miss out on a planned fight against Vasiliy Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs) due to a right-hand injury.