Month: June 2019

10:08 PM ET Craig Kimbrel finally has a new home. The All-Star closer and the Chicago Cubs have agreed to a three-year, $43 million deal, ESPN has confirmed, ending a seven-month-long free agency for one of baseball’s best bullpen arms. The Athletic was first to report the agreement. MLB Network reported the money first. Kimbrel
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11:35 PM ET Boston Red Sox ace Chris Sale had an immaculate inning in the eighth inning Wednesday, needing just nine pitches to strike out the side. Sale finished it off with a 98-mph fastball to strike out Kansas City Royals catcher Martin Maldonado. It’s Sale’s second immaculate inning of the year — he also
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10:56 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN UFC Fight Night in Greenville, South Carolina, has a new co-main event, and it’s a rematch. John Lineker will replace Cody Stamann on short notice and fight Rob Font in a bantamweight bout on the June 22 card, the UFC announced Wednesday. The card airs on ESPN+. Stamann injured his
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10:35 PM ET Monday morning quarterbacking, perhaps, but former unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin said he was not all that surprised that unheralded Andy Ruiz Jr. defeated Anthony Joshua last Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. Ruiz authored one of boxing’s greatest upsets when he knocked Joshua down four times and
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Brazil and Paris Saint-Germain forward Neymar published a video explaining his relationship with an unidentified woman who accused him of raping her in Paris last month. Brazil and Paris Saint-Germain star Neymar went to the Rio de Janeiro police headquarters on Thursday evening in an investigation linked to a woman’s rape allegation against him. The
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