11:56 AM ET Associated Press WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Sloane Stephens and Madison Keys will lead the United States against Switzerland in the Fed Cup World Group playoffs at San Antonio. Captain Kathy Rinaldi’s roster released Wednesday also includes Sofia Kenin, Jessica Pegula and Jennifer Brady. The matches are April 20-21. The winner will return
Month: April 2019
1:22 AM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — There’s brighter paint in the hallways, new motivational messages on the walls, and the players all have different seating assignments in the team meeting room. Things aren’t the same old, same old around the Green Bay Packers. &• Brown’s resentment grew with JuJu reception&• Rosen has what it
11:27 AM ET The Big 12 Conference has signed a deal to expand its rights agreements with ESPN, which will now broadcast every Big 12 football championship game through the 2024 season and create a Big 12 platform on ESPN+, the company’s direct-to-consumer subscription sports streaming service. In the new agreement, the Big 12 will
11:26 AM ET Associated Press MOSCOW — Russian boxer Tamir Galanov has been banned for two years for doping. Galanov won a bronze medal at the 2017 world amateur championships and is Russia’s current national flyweight champion. Galanov tested positive for furosemide, a banned diuretic that can be used by boxers to make weight but
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. A strong cast of teams has descended on Buffalo for the 2019 NCAA
12:08 PM BST ESPN staff Wallabies star Israel Folau is once again embroiled in a social media scandal after the fullback took to both Instagram and Twitter with anti-LGBTI+ views on Wednesday. In what has become a semi-regular occurrence for the Wallabies and Waratahs player, Folau, 30, shared anti-gay sentiments in a scathing post to
11:11 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Cameron Bancroft says that he is ready to put the past behind him as he prepares to lead Durham into the County Championship season, but accepts that others may take longer to forgive him for his role in the ball-tampering scandal that rocked Australian cricket last year. Bancroft, 26, was
9:39 AM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN The Minnesota Timberwolves are planning to open a search for a new president of basketball operations, with owner Glen Taylor preferring to keep general manager Scott Layden and interim coach Ryan Saunders as part of a revised organizational structure, league sources told ESPN. The Timberwolves are hopeful to award Saunders
5:00 AM ET GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The dynamic that confronts Feleipe Franks this spring is the same dynamic that confronted every Florida quarterback that came before him over the past decade. Only with a small twist. Rather than asking whether Florida finally has an answer at quarterback, there is a tentative belief that, yes, maybe
10:20 AM ET With the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs starting this week, we’re taking a slightly different tactic to get you ready for Round 1. In this column, we’re going to rank the defense corps of all 16 qualifying teams, similar to how we did with ranking the forward groups as well. These lists generate