2:55 PM ET ESPN News Services Former major league pitcher Dwight Gooden was arrested last month on suspicion of possession of cocaine, according to a complaint from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office that was obtained by multiple outlets. According to the complaint, Gooden, 54, had two small plastic baggies containing suspected cocaine in his possession
Month: July 2019
2:53 PM ET Free agent center Tyson Chandler has agreed to a one-year deal with the Houston Rockets, agent Jeff Schwartz of Excel Sports Management tells ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Chandler, 36, spent most of last season with the Los Angeles Lakers, where he averaged 5.6 rebounds and 3.1 points in 16.4 minutes per game. A
3:00 AM ET Ireland 134 for 1 (Stirling 83*, Balbirnie 28*) beat Zimbabwe 132 for 8 (Ervine 55, Williams 34, Adair 4-40) by nine wickets (DLS method) A blazing Paul Stirling special powered Ireland to a nine-wicket demolition of Zimbabwe in the rain-truncated second T20I in Bready. Craig Ervine’s rapid fifty lifted Zimbabwe to 132
2:16 PM ET SILVERSTONE, U.K. — Haas driver Romain Grosjean played down his bizarre pit-lane crash at the start of the opening practice session for the British Grand Prix. 1 Related Haas has tried something different with Grosjean’s car this week, taking the unusual step of reverting back to the specification it ran at the
1:48 PM BST Sam Cane will lead the All Blacks in their opening Rugby Championship match against Argentina next week in Buenos Aires, continuing the loose forward’s remarkable return from a broken neck. Regular captain Kieran Read and his deputy Sam Whitelock are both staying back in New Zealand to prepare for the July 27
12:57 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN The UFC Sacramento women’s bantamweight main event is locked in. Germaine de Randamie and Aspen Ladd successfully made weight Friday morning. De Randamie, the former UFC women’s featherweight champion, hit the bantamweight limit of 136 pounds, and Ladd made 135 pounds on the mark. The two fighters will compete in
12:54 PM ET The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Flyers president Paul Holmgren has stepped down to become a senior adviser for the franchise. General manager Chuck Fletcher becomes president of hockey operations in a related move. Fletcher reports directly to Comcast Spectacor Chairman and CEO Dave Scott. Holmgren has been a Flyers player, assistant
3:14 PM ET Austria’s Bernd Wiesberger shot a superb 10-under-par 61 to sit 14-under at the Scottish Open on Friday, tied for the lead with England’s Lee Slattery and South Africa’s Erik Van Rooyen. Wiesberger carded the lowest round of the week at the Renaissance Club, making 11 birdies for the day, six of which
12:18 PM ET Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen won the seventh stage of the Tour de France in a bunch sprint after a pancake-flat 230 km ride from Belfort on Friday. The Jumbo-Visma rider beat Australian Caleb Ewan of Lotto Soudal and Slovak Peter Sagan of Bora Hansgrohe into second and third, respectively. It was Groenewegen’s fourth
11:49 AM ET The father of Boston Celtics rookie Tremont Waters was found dead in a West Haven, Connecticut, hotel on Thursday, police told multiple outlets. Ed Waters, 49, was found dead by police around noon Thursday after they responded to a report of an injured or ill person. The case is being investigated as