7:30 AM ET Chris PetersESPN NHL Close Chris Peters is ESPN’s NHL draft and prospects analyst. The Chicago native previously covered the NHL for CBSSports.com and founded the popular independent blog UnitedStatesofHockey.com where he covered the game at all levels since 2010. For 16 teams, the Stanley Cup playoffs are in full swing. The other
Month: April 2019
4:06 PM ET Opening Bell: Lomachenko is the man LOS ANGELES — Pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko, the unified lightweight champion, is everything fans should want in a prizefighter. He fights regularly. Always comes in shape. Always entertains. No ducking either, because he’s willing to fight the best opponents available. And he has skills so supreme
4:05 PM ET Emily KaplanESPN The Philadelphia Flyers have hired Alain Vigneault as head coach. Vigneault, 57, most recently coached the New York Rangers for five seasons before he was dismissed last spring. He is scheduled to be the coach for Team Canada in May’s World Championships in Slovakia. Vigneault also coached the Vancouver Canucks
3:55 PM ET The Philadelphia Phillies have placed reliever David Robertson on the 10-day injured list with soreness in his pitching elbow. Robertson, 34, has a 5.40 ERA in seven appearances this season, his first with the Phillies. The right-hander threw two scoreless innings Sunday in Philadelphia’s 14-inning victory over the Marlins. The Phillies signed
Here’s a look at a shoe for Knicks G Allonzo Trier that was created by Nets G Spencer Dinwiddie. Dinwiddie has been wearing shoes that he created/designed all season. Trier would have worn this shoe in Sunday’s game but he’s sidelined with a calf injury. Ian Begley, ESPN Staff Writer8d ago
3:33 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz is not yet fully recovered from the stress fracture in his back that cut short his 2018 season. “It’s still getting there. It’s still getting there,” Wentz said Monday at the start of the team’s offseason training program, when asked if the bone is fully healed.
4:17 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Eli Manning expects his potential successor to be added to the roster later this month, believing the New York Giants will select a quarterback in this year’s NFL draft. The Giants have the sixth and 17th picks in the first round of the draft. Even Manning sees where
8:00 AM ET ON AN AFTERNOON in late March, a few weeks ahead of the 2019 NFL draft, 19 football players gather inside the University of Houston’s indoor practice facility, a cavernous white warehouse housing a plush turf field. Scores of family members, friends and media members are here. All 32 NFL teams are represented
7:10 AM ET Seth Walder Brian Burke Close ESPN Analytics Senior Analytics Specialist at ESPN Former consultant to NFL teams Pioneer of football analytics There’s an almost one-in-four chance that Kentucky pass-rusher Josh Allen, who’s likely to be picked in the top five of the 2019 NFL draft, doesn’t develop into a starting-caliber player. When
3:45 PM ET Israel Adesanya won the UFC’s interim middleweight belt on Saturday after an epic back-and-forth battle with Kelvin Gastelum. Jon Jones, however, wasn’t impressed. He took to social media in a series of now-deleted tweets discrediting Adesanya’s victory and shooting down any shot the 29-year-old has against him in a potential fight. “You