Month: May 2019

4:48 PM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens have agreed to a three-year contract with defenseman Brett Kulak. The deal was announced Saturday and runs through the 2021-22 season, carrying an average annual value of $1.85 million. The 25-year-old Kulak appeared in 57 games for the Canadiens last season and set career highs
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5:32 PM ET Astros right fielder George Springer has been placed on the 10-day injured list with a left hamstring strain after he hurt himself chasing a pop foul during Friday’s game against visiting Boston. Speaking Saturday, Houston general manager Jeff Luhnow said Springer suffered a Grade 2 strain. Luhnow didn’t give a firm timetable
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2:12 PM ET MONTE CARLO, Monaco — Ferrari team principal, Mattia Binotto, has admitted Charles Leclerc’s failure to make it out of the first session of qualifying at the Monaco Grand Prix was down to a misjudgement on the pit wall. 1 Related Leclerc qualified 16th for Sunday’s race (but will start 15th thanks to
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2:21 PM ET ESPN staff Pierre Gasly and Antonio Giovinazzi will both drop three places down the grid at the Monaco Grand Prix after blocking other drivers in qualifying. Gasly prompted a colourful radio rant from fellow Frenchman Romain Grosjean after he impeded the Haas driver in Q2, the second qualifying session, preventing him from
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1:22 PM ET The Oakland Athletics have designated relief pitcher Fernando Rodney for assignment, the team announced Saturday. Rodney, 42, has seen his ERA balloon to a career-worst 9.42 this season. He had returned to Oakland for 2019 after the A’s exercised a $5.25 million club option. Rodney has pitched for 10 teams in a
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1:15 PM ET Associated Press STRASBOURG, France — Ukrainian teenager Dayana Yastremska beat Caroline Garcia 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (3) to win the Internationaux de Strasbourg Saturday in the longest final of the WTA season. Yastremska wasted two match points in the second set and saved one in the third before closing out the encounter in
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7:35 PM ET ESPN News Services After more than six years in the minor leagues, Mike Yastrzemski — the grandson of Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski — made his major league debut Saturday after being called up for the first time. Yastrzemski started in left field for the San Francisco Giants and went 0-for-3 with
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