Month: February 2019

3:38 PM ET Versatile Marwin Gonzalez has agreed to a two-year, $21 million deal with the Minnesota Twins, league sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Friday. The deal, which is worth $12 million this season and $9 million in 2020, is pending a physical. Gonzalez, who played every position for the Houston Astros in 2018
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1:52 PM ET Starting pitcher Ervin Santana has agreed with the Chicago White Sox on a minor league deal, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Friday. If Santana makes the team, his base salary will be $4.3 million, sources told ESPN. MLB Network first reported the agreement. From Paul Goldschmidt in St. Louis to
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1:05 PM ET Associated Press DARLINGTON, S.C. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. will race at NASCAR’s track dubbed “Too Tough To Tame.” Earnhardt Jr. announced Friday that he’ll compete at Darlington Raceway’s Xfinity Series race on Aug. 31 during the track’s Southern 500 weekend. Earnhardt Jr. retired from full-time racing in 2017. He ran the Xfinity
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7:20 PM ET ESPN News Services New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is facing charges of misdemeanor solicitation of prostitution after he was twice videotaped paying for a sex act at an illicit massage parlor, police in Florida said Friday. The 77-year-old Kraft was one of 25 people involved in the alleged solicitation at the
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1:06 PM ET ESPN News Services New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is being charged with misdemeanor solicitation of prostitution after police said Friday that he was twice videotaped paying for and receiving sex at an illicit massage parlor. Police in Jupiter, Florida, told reporters Friday that the 77-year-old Kraft hasn’t been arrested. A warrant
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11:46 AM ET Steve KimESPN It would only be a slight exaggeration to say that there’s nothing that gives Brandon Rios — who fights Humberto Soto on Saturday in Tijuana, Mexico — as much pure exhilaration as the sport of boxing. For Rios, there is his family, first and foremost. “Being home with my kids,
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11:39 AM ET ESPN News Services Vanderbilt announced on Friday it has extended the contract of head coach Derek Mason. Details of the extension were not disclosed. Mason has led the Commodores for five seasons and is just the second coach in program history to lead Vandy to multiple bowl appearances. Last week, Mason shuffled
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11:46 AM ET Associated Press GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Sonny Gray has stiffness in his right elbow and was scratched from his scheduled start in the Cincinnati Reds‘ spring training opener against the Cleveland Indians on Saturday. Some teams take a stars-and-scrubs approach, some have depth but lack star power. We sort them all out and
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