Month: August 2019

2:34 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The Minnesota Wild passed on Pittsburgh Penguins assistant GM Bill Guerin to hire Paul Fenton as their general manager last year. Fenton lasted one season. On Wednesday, the team corrected the error, and hired Guerin to succeed him. “Bill has been a winner throughout his hockey career and I am
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1:18 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball in a memo warned about the “very real risk” of over-the-counter sexual-enhancement pills after at least two players this year were suspended for performance-enhancing drugs and claimed the banned
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12:54 PM ET With the fight finally agreed to on Tuesday night, the paperwork was signed Wednesday morning and the fight between Gennady Golovkin and Sergiy Derevyanchenko is official. It took three weeks of mostly acrimonious negotiations and arguments over numerous issues but they will meet for a vacant middleweight world title on Oct. 5
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1:04 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Goran Ivanisevic, Sergi Bruguera, Conchita Martinez and Jonas Bjorkman are the four candidates for the International Tennis Hall of Fame’s class of 2020. The four players announced Wednesday, all former Grand Slam tournament champions, are in their second year of a three-year possible candidacy in the player
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12:50 PM ET Kevin SeifertNFL Nation Close ESPN.com national NFL writer ESPN.com NFC North reporter, 2008-2013 Covered Vikings for Minneapolis Star Tribune, 1999-2008 The XFL revealed the names and logos for its eight teams Wednesday, a long-awaited step toward its February 2020 debut. The names will be: Dallas Renegades Houston Roughnecks Los Angeles Wildcats New
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12:38 PM ET ATLANTA — Rory McIlroy is among those who remain a bit skeptical about the PGA Tour’s format for the season-ending Tour Championship that will determine the winner of the FedEx Cup. While saying Wednesday that he understands many of the reasons for the new format, he also said “come back to me
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12:16 PM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The Miami Dolphins have signed receiver/returner Jakeem Grant to a four-year extension, the team announced. Terms were not disclosed, but sources confirmed to ESPN that the deal is worth up to $24 million. Grant is one of the NFL’s fastest players, and his speed figures to play a
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12:16 PM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The Miami Dolphins have signed receiver/returner Jakeem Grant to a four-year extension worth up to $24 million, sources confirm. Grant is one of the NFL’s fastest players and his speed figures to play a significant role in creating big plays for the Dolphins in 2019 and beyond. Grant,
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