8:02 PM ET Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Top-seeded American Sloane Stephens outlasted Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4) to advance Tuesday at the WTA’s Volvo Car Open. Stephens, the 2017 U.S. Open champion, needed almost 2 hours, 40 minutes to put away Tormo in the season’s first clay-court tournament. The 2016 Volvo
Month: April 2019
7:52 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Lawyers for a baseball fan on life support following a weekend assault outside Dodger Stadium say the team hasn’t done enough to improve security since a similar attack eight years ago. Los Angeles police are searching for a man who punched Rafael Reyna, 47, during an argument
11:53 PM ET ESPN News Services Outfielder Randal Grichuk is in agreement with the Toronto Blue Jays on a five-year, $52 million extension, a league source familiar with the deal told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Grichuk, 27, was set to be a free agent after the 2020 season. “I love the city. I like the direction
9:52 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Starter Germán Márquez and the Colorado Rockies agreed Tuesday on a five-year, $43 million contract extension, pending a physical, locking up the right-hander whose breakout second half helped fuel the Rockies to
6:54 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens still expect Pro Bowl guard Marshal Yanda to play this season, a league source said on Tuesday. There had been recent speculation that Yanda was contemplating retirement. Yanda, 34, is scheduled to make $7 million in the final year of his contract. At the NFL
6:12 PM ET Former NFL offensive lineman Richie Incognito pleaded guilty last week in Scottsdale, Arizona, to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge stemming from an arrest last August. Court records showed that charges of making threats and defacing property were dismissed. Incognito, 35, had been arrested after allegedly threatening employees at a funeral home where
6:10 PM ET Georgia football players Brenton Cox and Robert Beal Jr. were arrested Tuesday and charged with marijuana possession, the latest incident in a series of off-the-field issues for the Bulldogs program. Online records for the Athens-Clarke County jail show Beal and Cox were charged with misdemeanor possession of less than one ounce of
5:01 PM ET Former Penn State wide receiver Juwan Johnson has signed a financial aid agreement with Oregon and will join the Ducks on Thursday morning – much earlier than expected — for their seventh practice of the spring. Johnson wasn’t going to join the team until this summer, but the two-time academic all-Big Ten
2:03 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, who is heading into the final year of his contract, gave an April 15 deadline for a new deal to the team in January, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Wednesday. The two sides have had recent contract talks, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said
4:55 PM ET Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, who is heading into the final year of his contract, wants a new deal with the team in place by April 15, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Tuesday. The two sides have had recent contract talks, a source told ESPN’s Dan Graziano. However, sources told