Month: February 2019

6:48 PM ET Leading up to Monday’s trade deadline, Eric Staal‘s name was thrown around as a possible trade chip, but he ended up getting a new deal from the Minnesota Wild. According to reports, he has agreed to terms on a two-year extension with an average annual value of $3.25 million. He would have
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5:55 PM ET UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker, who was scheduled to face Kelvin Gastelum two weeks ago but was pulled from the title defense on fight day and rushed to a hospital in Melbourne, Australia, said Monday that upon being examined he was told, “You need emergency surgery or you’re gonna die.” Whittaker, 28,
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5:27 PM ET Featherweights Bryan De Gracia and Eduardo Ramirez will meet in world title elimination bout announced Monday that is a late addition to Saturday’s Brian Castano-Erislandy Lara card at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. De Gracia-Ramirez will open the Showtime-televised tripleheader (9 p.m. ET). The fight was added to the card when
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4:57 PM ET Corey Crawford, who has been out since the middle of December after suffering his second concussion in two years, was activated by the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday. The team sent goalie Collin Delia to Rockford of the AHL in a corresponding move. In a Dec. 16 game against the Sharks, Hawks forward
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4:39 PM ET Former Seattle Seahawks quarterback Jim Zorn was named the coach and general manager of the XFL’s Seattle franchise on Monday. Zorn, 65, was the Washington Redskins‘ head coach in the 2008 and ’09 seasons, finishing 12-20 overall. Before becoming the Redskins’ coach, he was the Seahawks’ quarterbacks coach from 2001 to 2007.
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4:46 PM ET The Alliance of American Football and its co-founder, Charlie Ebersol, are being sued in Los Angeles Superior Court by a man who claims the league was his idea. In a suit filed Friday, Robert Vanech, the co-founder and current CFO of Trebel Music, said he had a “handshake agreement” with Ebersol that
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