5:28 PM ET At 42 years old, eight-time All-Star Vince Carter has agreed to a one-year contract to return to the Atlanta Hawks for his final NBA season, league sources told ESPN. Carter will play an NBA-record 22nd season, where he will spend a second straight year mentoring one of the NBA’s youngest rosters, which
Month: August 2019
5:32 PM ET UFC welterweight contender Ben Askren was potentially one win away from a title shot entering his bout with Jorge Masvidal at UFC 239 in July. And in five seconds, that dream was over. Masvidal’s flying knee earned him the fastest KO in the promotion’s history and ended Askren’s 20-fight unbeaten streak and
4:49 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Houston Texans rookie Lonnie Johnson Jr. didn’t make any friends on the first day of joint practices with the Green Bay Packers, and he didn’t even get to finish the workout because his coach kicked him off the field after the cornerback leveled two players in what was
4:37 PM ET Gleyber Torres is in the New York Yankees‘ lineup Monday against the Baltimore Orioles, a day after leaving Sunday night’s game with a “core issue.” Torres was taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he underwent tests and was later released. Torres is batting cleanup against the Orioles and serving as the
4:17 PM ET Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Grizzlies have hired former Notre Dame women’s associate head coach Niele Ivey as one of the new assistants on Taylor Jenkins’ staff. There are now nine women working as coaches in the NBA. The Grizzlies also announced Monday the hiring of Brad Jones, David McClure,
4:05 PM ET STORRS, Conn. — UConn football coach Randy Edsall believes that one of the NCAA’s favorite monikers, “student-athlete,” is disingenuous and outdated. The veteran coach said it’s inevitable and overdue for college sports to start giving players a chance to make money. Edsall, who has spent most of his four-decade coaching career in
3:19 PM ET Chicago Cubs All-Star catcher Willson Contreras will miss four weeks with a strained right hamstring, the team announced Monday. Contreras was placed on the 10-day injured list Sunday, less than 24 hours after suffering the injury while running out a fly ball in Saturday’s game against Milwaukee. He had an MRI, which
3:09 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — The Braves have recalled right-hander Mike Foltynewicz from Triple-A Gwinnett to take a spot in the starting rotation after Kevin Gausman was claimed off waivers by the Cincinnati Reds. Foltynewicz was a 13-game winner and an All-Star for the Braves in 2018, but he struggled to regain that
3:08 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Before the Texans and Packers held a joint practice on Monday, J.J. Watt finally got to participate in the Green Bay tradition of players riding a kid’s bike to practice, something he said was “a dream he had as a kid.” And then he broke the bike. “The
2:51 PM ET The Miami Marlins apologized on Monday for making light of Steve Irwin’s death in a tweet to the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday. “This was a regrettable exchange by our otherwise creative social media team. Unfortunately, in this medium, sometimes we swing and miss, and this was definitely a miss,” the team