2:39 PM ET Former Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Ryan Grant signed with the Oakland Raiders on Wednesday. Terms were not disclosed. Grant becomes the latest addition to the Raiders’ revamped wide receiver corps this offseason, joining trade addition Antonio Brown and free-agent addition Tyrell Williams. Grant, 28, struggled to find a niche in the Colts’
Month: April 2019
2:07 PM ET The preliminary bouts prior to the April 20 pay-per-view broadcast headlined by welterweight world titlist Terence Crawford defending against Amir Khan will air live on ESPN2, Top Rank announced on Wednesday. The pay-per-view (9 p.m. ET) from Madison Square Garden in New York will feature four bouts with a five-fight broadcast of
2:12 PM ET It has long been considered bad luck, not to mention bad taste, for a NASCAR racer to roll into a speedway driving a pink race car. Even Dale Earnhardt, aka the Man in Black, suffered a lifetime of ribbing about his very first racing machine, a 1956 Ford painted door-to-door in pink,
12:54 PM ET Michigan wide receiver Donovan Peoples-Jones and defensive lineman Michael Dwumfour are more seriously injured than thought, coach Jim Harbaugh said Wednesday. Peoples-Jones, who led Michigan with 47 receptions for 612 yards and eight touchdowns in 2018, is suffering from a lingering groin injury. Dwumfour, a starting defensive tackle who had 19 tackles
1:34 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — The men’s tennis singles final at the Olympics has been shortened to a best-of-three-sets match as part of format changes designed to reduce the workload of players competing in multiple events. It means all matches across the men’s and women’s singles are now best of three sets with
12:22 PM ET Quarterback transfer Jack Tuttle will be eligible immediately for Indiana after the NCAA approved his waiver request, the team announced Wednesday. Tuttle, who in December transferred to Indiana from Utah, will have four years of eligibility with the Hoosiers. Tuttle has been practicing with the team this spring and competing alongside quarterbacks
11:58 AM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain — George Russell topped the second day of this week’s in-season test at the Bahrain International Circuit after switching from his regular team Williams to world champions Mercedes for the day. Mick Schumacher, the son of seven-time champion Michael, made his debut for Ferrari on Tuesday in Bahrain and made
1:35 PM ET CLEMSON, S.C. — In the moment, Xavier Thomas was just thinking, “Please don’t throw it.” The rest of the world saw lightning in a bottle. Thomas felt like he was running in quicksand. This was late September, the turning point in Clemson’s season when a third-string quarterback led a comeback win and
1:00 AM ET PITTSBURGH — Asking how wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster will evolve in Year 3 is straightforward enough for Steelers coach Mike Tomlin. But the final three words of that question — “with AB gone” — affected the answer. JuJu Smith-Schuster saw 166 targets in 2018, just two fewer than Antonio Brown. Charles LeClaire/USA TODAY
12:43 PM ET Kelly Stafford, the wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, announced Wednesday that she will undergo surgery this month for a brain tumor discovered earlier this year. She announced the diagnosis in a lengthy post on Instagram. She explained the process of what she and her husband went through, from her starting