Month: March 2019

6:01 PM ET Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State has signed football coach Dave Doeren to a five-year contract through the 2023 season. The school said Tuesday that Doeren will make $3.25 million each season, an increase of $250,000 per year from his previous deal. Doeren said in a statement that he is
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5:32 PM ET Fernando Alonso doesn’t seem to be missing F1 very much. The Spaniard stepped away from the championship for 2019 and had two primary reasons for doing so: he had grown tried of a succession of uncompetitive McLaren cars and this year is turning his full attention to other pursuits, such as his
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5:48 PM ET Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa is questionable for Thursday’s opener at Tampa Bay because of a sore neck, manager A.J. Hinch said. Hinch said Correa, who was scratched from Houston’s last two exhibition games, has been experiencing discomfort in his neck since a rundown play last Friday. “We’ll see if he can
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4:52 PM ET Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic underwent surgery on Tuesday and is expected to make a full recovery from a season-ending injury to his left leg, the team announced in a release. There is no timetable for his return to basketball activity. Nurkic, 24, fractured his left tibia and fibula with 2
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4:33 PM ET If New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard was still upset about the New York Mets’ trip to Syracuse, he certainly wasn’t showing it Tuesday. Two days after he said he wasn’t looking forward to making the trip to the city — “not even in the slightest bit” — Syndergaard was running around
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6:01 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR made the first significant changes to its schedule in years by shuffling the 2020 season into a freshened sequence that tries to give the fans what they want to the best of its current ability. The 2020 schedule released Tuesday moved the season finale to the
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4:21 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, FLa. — Defending champion John Isner advanced to the Miami Open quarterfinals with a 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3) win over 19th-seeded Kyle Edmund on Tuesday. Isner pounded 17 aces and lost one service game in the match. He surrendered the ninth game of the first set at love.
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3:53 PM ET PHOENIX — As Freddie Kitchens waxed eloquent about all things Cleveland Browns Tuesday morning, the proposition was put to him that the combination of Baker Mayfield and Odell Beckham Jr. could be dynamite. “I hope so,” Kitchens said without hesitation. “And I hope we blow a lot of things up.” The quip
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