12:44 PM ET Emily KaplanESPN Longtime Detroit Red Wings general manager Ken Holland was named the new GM and president of hockey operations of the Edmonton Oilers Tuesday, and he got right to work. At his introductory press conference, he said he had already informed Ken Hitchcock that he will not return as coach of
Month: May 2019
12:33 PM ET ESPN News Services There won’t be a Triple Crown winner in 2019. Bill Mott, the trainer of Kentucky Derby winner Country House, told the Daily Racing Form that the horse will not race in the Preakness Stakes because he has become ill. “He developed a little bit of a cough this morning,”
12:43 PM ET Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul suffered a potential season-ending fractured neck injury in a single-car accident last week in South Florida, league sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Tuesday. Pierre-Paul will likely need surgery, a source told Schefter. He will be visiting with neck specialists at some point this week
12:29 PM BST Scotland named uncapped trio Rory Hutchinson, Grant Stewart and Blade Thomson in their 42-man training squad for this year’s World Cup in Japan. Head coach Gregor Townsend called up centre Rory Hutchinson after a fine season with English Premiership side Northampton Saints, while hooker Grant Stewart (Glasgow Warriors) and No. 8 Blade
12:09 PM ET Retired UFC light heavyweight Anthony Johnson was arrested and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery on Monday in South Florida, according to court records. Johnson, 35, has an arraignment hearing scheduled on June 3 in Palm Beach County. A woman who describes herself as Johnson’s girlfriend told police he picked her up and
12:03 PM ET Veteran PGA Tour player Chris Kirk announced Tuesday via Twitter that he would be taking time away from the game to deal with alcohol and depression issues. Kirk, who turns 34 on Wednesday, said that he has been dealing with “alcohol abuse and depression for some time. I thought I could control
3:59 AM ET This weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix marks the start of Formula One’s European season and will see a return to the venue of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Catalunya outside Barcelona. The proximity to the teams’ bases around Europe means it is targeted as a race to bring the first big car
3:00 AM ET Big Picture So the prologue is done and dusted – with England picking up two wins out of two in a pair of vastly contrasting contests over the bank holiday weekend. First, they held their nerve on a claggy dog of a deck in Malahide to seal a low-scoring cliffhanger, the like
8:18 AM ET “IF YOU’RE GOING to go get it, go get it,” Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry thinks to himself, in what must be one of the NBA’s more revealing internal monologues. “Finish the game off.” When the shot leaves Kawhi Leonard‘s hands, nine players on the floor stand closer to the basket than
8:52 AM ET Twenty-three thoughts on the wildest series of a wild second round: It is easy to dismiss this as the consolation series: Win, and Golden State or Houston tramples you. Yeah, the winner here will be a huge underdog in the Western Conference finals. The Portland Trail Blazers and Denver Nuggets have to