2:22 PM ET ESPN News Services Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price is being praised after he stopped to talk to a boy whose mother recently died of cancer. Tammy Whitehead, the 11-year-old’s aunt, published a video of the meeting on Facebook, and as of Friday afternoon, it had been viewed more than 4.9 million times.
Month: March 2019
1:56 PM ET Associated Press MESA, Ariz. — Oakland Athletics slugger Khris Davis stepped up his rehab for a left calf strain and began running on the field Friday. Athletics manager Bob Melvin said he expects Davis to be ready by the season-opening series in Japan in mid-March. Davis has yet to play in a
3:04 PM ET Associated Press The Alliance of American Football is in a holding pattern regarding quarterback Johnny Manziel, whose contract was terminated this week by the CFL. “We don’t know,” Alliance co-founder Charlie Ebersol said Friday. “We’re trying to get to the bottom of what happened in Canada. We want to be a league
1:37 PM ET Associated Press Roger Federer can win the 100th title of his career at the Dubai Championships Saturday. The 20-time Grand Slam champion will have to beat the rising star of tennis to do so. Federer set up a title match against 20-year-old Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas by defeating Borna Coric 6-2, 6-2 in
1:48 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Both title fights at UFC 235 on Saturday are now official as Jon Jones, Anthony Smith, Tyron Woodley and Kamaru Usman all made weight. Jones and Smith, fighting for the UFC’s light heavyweight belt in the main event, weighed in at 205 and 204.5 pounds, respectively. The fighters could
1:18 PM ET UFC flyweight Paige VanZant announced on social media late Thursday night that she fractured her right arm. She did not elaborate on how it happened or how long she will be out. She previously broke her right arm in the first round of a fight last year with Jessica-Rose Clark. Well…. I
1:07 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS – Teams that have communicated with the New York Giants are under the impression they are trying to trade outside linebacker Olivier Vernon, sources told ESPN. Vernon is set to make $15.5 million this season. His current deal has two years and $31 million remaining. If the Giants don’t get a
12:00 PM ET Plenty of other superstar free agents have changed teams, from Reggie Jackson to Dave Winfield, Andre Dawson to Roger Clemens to Alex Rodriguez. But Bryce Harper forged his own path through the market, waiting and waiting through meeting after meeting. Now he must hit the ground running. A physical examination Friday, a
2:17 PM ET Former junior middleweight world titleholder Erislandy Lara is as known a commodity as there is in boxing, having had a long reign and having had several significant fights, including against Canelo Alvarez, Austin Trout, Alfredo Angulo and Paul Williams. And, of course, there is also perhaps Lara’s most famous fight, which was
12:53 PM ET MONTMELO, Spain — A late lap from Lewis Hamilton offered a tantilising glimpse of what qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix could look like, with the best times of Ferrari and Mercedes split by a fraction of a second at the end of the final day of preseason testing. The common consensus