2:50 PM ET CHICAGO — Cubs infielder Addison Russell attempted to walk back comments he made to the Chicago Sun-Times on Thursday in which he seemed critical of fans who boo him. “Everyone is entitled to doing whatever they want to do, think whatever they want to think, say whatever they want to say,” Russell
Month: May 2019
2:45 PM ET Michael DiRocoo JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville Jaguars coach Doug Marrone still has not spoken with linebacker Telvin Smith, but he wants Smith to know that he and the rest of the organization are there to support him if he wants to reach out. That was his immediate reaction when Smith announced on
2:58 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN In moves that reshape the front office of one of the Western Conference’s perennial playoff franchises, the Utah Jazz have promoted general manager Dennis Lindsey to executive vice president of basketball operations and assistant GM Justin Zanik to GM, the team announced Friday. Lindsey, the Jazz’s general manager since 2012,
2:11 PM BST The 2021 Champions Cup and European Rugby Challenge Cup finals will be held at Tottenham Hotspur’s new stadium from May 21 to 22, the European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) said on Friday. Last year’s finals were held in Bilbao, home to La Liga club Athletic Bilbao, while this year’s finals will be
2:01 PM ET PITTSBURGH — New Steeler Justin Layne promised on draft night “we’re taking all the Browns stuff down” from his Cleveland home. Layne wasn’t lying, and his dad had his back. “Yes sir. Oh yeah, Browns everywhere, my dad took it all down and replaced it — literally everything, every flag I had,”
2:05 PM ET Associated Press MADRID — Roger Federer wasted two match points in a 3-6, 7-6 (11), 6-4 loss to Dominic Thiem in the quarterfinals of the Madrid Open on Friday. The fifth-seeded Thiem outlasted Federer in the second-set tiebreaker and broke him twice in the third set to close out the match in
1:54 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Kendell Beckwith will miss the 2019 season after being placed on the Reserve Non-Football Injury List, and sources told ESPN on Friday that his ankle injury could be career-threatening. Beckwith also missed last season as a result of the fractured ankle, which he suffered in
1:56 PM ET BARCELONA, Spain — After four consecutive one-two victories for Mercedes in the first four races, a lot rests on this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix injecting some excitement into the season. Ferrari has shown promise throughout the opening four races and, arguably, had the quicker car in two of the four. However, from
May 9, 2019 FAIRFAX, Va. — “Swift” Jarrett Hurd, the unified junior middleweight world titleholder, will be the first to admit that he’s become a homebody even though that was not always the case. When Hurd, who is from Accokeek, Maryland, turned professional in 2012, he spent the first two years of his career fighting
1:09 PM ET Andrew Cancio’s knockout of Alberto Machado to win a junior lightweight world title will go down as one of the upsets of the year, but Machado will have a chance to avenge the defeat. Cancio will make the first defense of his 130-pound belt in a rematch with Machado, who had the