5:54 PM ET The Denver Broncos have agreed to trade quarterback Case Keenum to the Washington Redskins, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Thursday. In exchange, the Broncos will get a sixth-round pick in the 2020 draft from the Redskins. Washington will also get a 2020 seventh-rounder from Denver. The NFL Network first reported
Month: March 2019
6:24 PM ET PITTSBURGH — The Antonio Brown sweepstakes hasn’t stopped the Pittsburgh Steelers from doing big business with their big people. The team has re-signed center Maurkice Pouncey and guard Ramon Foster to multi-year deals, the team announced Thursday. Pouncey will become the NFL’s highest-paid center at $11 million per year over three years,
5:24 PM ET The Florida Gators and Miami Hurricanes will kick off the season Aug. 24 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, after the NCAA approved a request to move the game up one week. The game was moved to help celebrate the opening of the 150th anniversary season of college football. Talks among
5:07 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — All manner of friends, family and acquaintances are at Bay Hill this week to watch Graeme McDowell play in his adopted hometown at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, where he had his first early success in America. And it wouldn’t hurt to have some more this weekend. McDowell, now 39,
5:19 PM ET Veteran wide receiver Pierre Garcon will become a free agent after the San Francisco 49ers passed on his option for 2019, the team announced Thursday. The 49ers opted to take on $7.2 million in dead money rather than carry Garcon’s cap number of $8.275 million. In two seasons with the Niners, Garcon
5:33 PM ET The Miami Dolphins are diving headfirst into a rebuild, with the first step being to get cumbersome veteran contracts off the books. They started that process Thursday by releasing defensive end Andre Branch and guard Ted Larsen. The two moves will save Miami $9.15 million in salary-cap space. Several other prominent Dolphins
4:37 PM ET The Miami Dolphins are diving headfirst into a rebuild with the first step being shedding unsavory veteran contracts off their books. They started that process Thursday by releasing defensive end Andre Branch and guard Ted Larsen, a source told ESPN. The two moves will save Miami $9.15 million in salary cap space.
5:09 PM ET The Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) appear to have won their fight to see a marked rise in the pay of players in England and Wales. The PCA – the players’ union – had previously expressed their surprise at news that the ECB did not envisage a rise in the salary cap or
4:39 PM ET Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver has been diagnosed with dementia and will retire from public life, his family announced on Thursday. In a statement released by the Hall of Fame, Seaver’s family expressed thanks for those who have supported the New York Mets great throughout his career, and asked for privacy.
6:54 AM ET There is something about the phenom that attracts us. This is certainly true in baseball, where sizable industries have been built to provide advanced warning of “the next big thing.” It’s also true of the greater culture in general, where prodigies from Mozart to Rimbaud to Tiger Woods have become permanently embedded