7:41 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN All season, the top four teams in the NBA’s Eastern Conference seemed to be on a high-stakes playoff collision course. Now those long-awaited postseason meetings have finally arrived, and after four total games in series between the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks and between the Toronto Raptors and Philadelphia 76ers,
Month: May 2019
5:55 PM ET Associated Press BLUFFTON, S.C. — Alex Beach seized control with three straight birdies on the front nine and closed with a 3-under 69 to hold off Danny Balin to win the PGA Professional Championship on Wednesday. They were among 20 club pros who earned spots in the PGA Championship in two weeks
5:48 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Struggling reliever Jeurys Familia has been placed on the 10-day injured list by the New York Mets because of a sore right shoulder. Mets manager Mickey Callaway said Familia informed the team his shoulder was bothering him Wednesday morning, one day after he coughed up a two-run
5:25 PM ET The Washington Redskins declined to pick up the fifth year option on receiver Josh Doctson, a source told ESPN. It was a long-expected decision, but they did not tell Doctson until Wednesday afternoon, two days before the deadline. The option would have cost them $10.3 million in 2020. That’s a steep price
5:12 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings declined to exercise the fifth-year option on wide receiver Laquon Treadwell, the team announced Wednesday. Treadwell, the 23rd overall pick in the 2016 draft, is set to become a free agent in March 2020. The receiver’s option would have cost the Vikings $10.162 million next season. The
5:15 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Brock Lesnar‘s time in the UFC — or at least the tease of a return — appears to be done, for now. That still leaves many lingering questions for the former UFC heavyweight and WWE Universal champion. 1 Related Lesnar, 41, will not be fighting Daniel Cormier for the UFC
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Yorkshire 175 for 5 (Kohler-Cadmore 67, Brook 47) beat Northamptonshire 351 (Vasconcelos 112, Levi 58, Cobb 58) by 5 wickets (with 2 balls remaining – D/L) Jonny Tattersall brought Yorkshire home in a dramatic rain-reduced chase at Northamptonshire to keep alive their hopes of reaching the knockout stage of
4:08 PM ET Emily KaplanESPN COLUMBUS — Boston Bruins winger Brad Marchand doesn’t regret punching Blue Jackets defenseman Scott Harrington in the back of the head at the end of Game 3, though he did say Wednesday his actions were “unnecessary.” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy plans on having a chat with Marchand about the winger’s
5:21 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR abandoned its years-long bid to add excitement to qualifying and announced Wednesday it will return to single-car laps after the current format became a laughingstock. All three national series will make the change at all oval tracks, starting this weekend at Dover. NASCAR for more than
3:31 PM ET Associated Press ROME — Three-time champion Maria Sharapova has withdrawn from the upcoming Italian Open as she continues to recover from a right shoulder injury. Rome organizers announced Wednesday that Sharapova’s spot in the draw for the May 13-19 tournament will be taken by 45th-ranked Viktoria Kuzmova of Slovakia. Sharapova, a five-time