11:14 AM ET Cubs veteran Ben Zobrist remains on a personal leave of absence from the team, and court documents filed in Chicago indicate he is getting divorced. According to the documents, his wife, Julianna, is listed as the plaintiff. Julianna Zobrist is a professional singer who has performed the national anthem for teams that
Month: May 2019
11:16 AM ET Associated Press BALTIMORE — A 13th horse has been added to the Preakness field three days before the race. Everfast, trained by Dale Romans, was a last-minute entry to the second jewel of the Triple Crown on Wednesday, hours before post positions were drawn. A Maryland Jockey Club spokesman confirmed the addition
10:38 AM BST South African Super Rugby side the Bulls have confirmed the departure of Springboks flyhalf Handre Pollard for French Top 14 side Montpellier, but will welcome back the experienced Morne Steyn for the 2020 season. Pollard has long been linked to the Top 14 and will join several other Boks in the south
1:35 PM ET Wait a second, Alex Bowman is perhaps the hottest driver in the NASCAR Cup series. There’s a completely intended pun there. In each of the past three weeks, Bowman has finished as runner-up — behind Chase Elliott at Talladega, Martin Truex Jr. at Dover and Brad Keselowski at Kansas. That’s behind two
11:58 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball hopes to refresh its ball- and player-tracking technology with a new optical-based system that could add even more statistical bells and whistles to the game — but won’t necessarily
1:27 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — When Jachai Polite announced he was leaving the University of Florida for the NFL, he did so with a letter to “Gator Nation” on Twitter. In addition to the obligatory thank-yous to school, team and family, he vowed, “I can’t wait to prove to NFL teams that I
9:00 AM ET Heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder (40-0-1, 39 KOs), coming off his contested split draw against Tyson Fury in December, fights Dominic Breazeale May 18 on Showtime. So we had an anonymous trainer assess Wilder — then let Wilder respond. TRAINER: Deontay Wilder is the rare fighter gifted with one-punch power. Unfortunately, it’s only
2:11 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — Kyler Murray‘s high school résumé is a thing of football lore in Texas. Forty-two wins. No losses. Three straight state championships. Three championship game MVPs. Gatorade Player of the Year. “It’s unbelievable,” said Tom Westerberg, Murray’s coach at Allen High School. “We played at the highest classification in the
7:10 AM ET Yeah, your team has a quarterback. But for how long does it have that quarterback, and how sure is it that he’s the one? Some NFL teams are married to their quarterbacks. Some are just starting to get serious. Some are sitting across from their quarterbacks at a fancy restaurant blatantly eyeing
7:44 AM ET Malika AndrewsESPN MILWAUKEE — One by one, the Milwaukee Bucks players pulled into the garage in the team’s practice facility. It was Thursday, less than 12 hours removed from their series-clinching Game 5 victory over the Boston Celtics, and Mike Budenholzer had given the team the day off. Yet there was Giannis