5:59 PM ET Junior middleweight Patrick Day, who suffered a brutal 10th-round knockout loss on Saturday night, died from brain injuries on Wednesday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, promoter Lou DiBella said. Day was 27. Day, of Freeport, New York, was knocked down by right hands in the fourth and eighth rounds by unbeaten
Month: October 2019
5:53 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — With injuries piling up at receiver and production waning at tight end, the Green Bay Packers on Wednesday signed veteran wideout Ryan Grant and used of one of their injured reserve/designated to return spots on rookie tight end Jace Sternberger. While Sternberger can’t play until after Week 8
Oct 16, 2019 Associated Press FLINT, Mich. — A prosecutor has filed an assault charge against the brother of boxer Claressa Shields in connection with an attack on the trainer for Ivana Habazin before the weigh-in for their fight. Genesee County prosecutor David Leyton issued a statement Wednesday saying 28-year-old Artis J. Mack of Flint
5:45 PM ET ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Two days after Detroit Lions defensive lineman Trey Flowers was flagged for an illegal hands-to-the-face penalty that the NFL later said shouldn’t have been called, a billboard appeared on various freeways in the Detroit metropolitan area making a statement about it. The billboard displays a referee wearing a
5:50 PM ET Associated Press SEATTLE — Seattle’s expansion NHL franchise has released initial pricing for club seats, with details on general ticket prices coming in 2020. The team said club seats will each cost between $285 and $355 based on a 44-game season ticket package. The club seats will be on three-, five- or
5:13 PM ET Associated Press The number of enforced targeting penalties is down 32% in the Football Bowl Subdivision compared with the first seven weeks of the 2018 season. Targeting, the act of striking a defenseless opponent above the shoulders or using the crown of the helmet to contact an opponent, has been one of
5:09 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The bat used by Babe Ruth to slug his 500th career home run in 1929 is going up for auction, nearly 75 years after he gave it to a friend whose family has kept it ever since. Ruth became the first player to reach the coveted plateau
4:47 PM ET Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. — Joe Girardi has quit as the manager of the U.S. baseball team trying to qualify for the Olympics before it played a single game. Girardi said Wednesday that he is leaving to pursue a major league managing job. There are seven current openings. He will be replaced
4:40 PM ET NEW YORK — Sleepy-eyed Brooklyn Nets players, still recovering from the 12-hour time difference, practiced Wednesday for the first time since returning from their preseason trip to China. Four days removed from their second and final game there against the Los Angeles Lakers, Nets players said they were ready to put the
4:31 PM ET Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett said Wednesday on Twitter that he was “punched” in the face by a fan. Garrett wrote that he was driving when a fan flagged him down to take a picture and then gave him “a pillow tap” [in the face]. A “fan” hopped out his car