Month: April 2019

The FC panel credit Mauricio Pochettino and his Tottenham side for the way they handled adversity in the second leg against Manchester City. MANCHESTER, England — Manchester City have to put their Champions League heartbreak behind them quickly or they could blow their Premier League titles hopes too, according to Bernardo Silva. City’s hopes of
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8:52 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A remarkable baseball streak ended Wednesday when Joey Votto innocuously popped out to first base. The slugger somehow had made 6,827 plate appearances over 13 seasons with the Reds without ever popping out to first. He finally did it in Cincinnati’s 3-2 loss at Dodger Stadium, fouling
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8:32 PM ET Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Forrest Gregg was remembered Wednesday as a gentle giant who was as comfortable playing Barbie dolls with his daughter as he was playing football for Vince Lombardi. Gregg died Friday at age 85 after a long fight with Parkinson’s, a disease his neurologist and family believe
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9:19 PM ET Kevin SeifertNFL Nation Close ESPN.com national NFL writer ESPN.com NFC North reporter, 2008-2013 Covered Vikings for Minneapolis Star Tribune, 1999-2008 The NFL is on board with the Cleveland Browns. The league granted the Browns four prime-time games in 2019, including three in the first five weeks of the season, perhaps the most
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7:38 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Boston Red Sox pitcher David Price thinks Major League Baseball made a mistake by having just 10 games Monday on Jackie Robinson Day. Price tweeted about it Wednesday: Hey @mlb every year on April 15th we celebrate Jackie Robinson Day…EVERYONE plays on that day next year deal?
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8:42 PM ET The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Grizzlies have hired Rich Cho vice president of basketball strategy and Glen Grunwald as a senior adviser within the franchise’s basketball operations department. Cho is a former Charlotte Hornets and Portland Trail Blazers general manager. Grunwald was general manager of the New York Knicks
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7:13 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race will feature two technical elements that could be incorporated into the Gen-7 car set for 2021. NASCAR and Charlotte Motor Speedway announced the technical specifications and format Wednesday for the May 18 exhibition race at the North Carolina track. The
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6:57 PM ET NEW YORK — Exactly when did New York Yankees ace Luis Severino suffer the Grade 2 lat strain that has him completely barred from throwing a baseball another five weeks? For now, the answer to that question remains quite murky. But Severino made a revealing comment Wednesday afternoon that will certainly raise
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