10:36 AM ET A man has been arrested and charged with felony vandalism for allegedly pulling the face mask off a Joe Montana statue outside Levi’s Stadium on Monday. Santa Clara police announced in a statement Wednesday that Jorge Alberto Lopez faces the charge for vandalizing the statue, which is part of a two-statue display
Month: November 2019
10:41 AM 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’s investigation into illegal sign stealing is expected to expand beyond the 2017 Houston Astros and look into whether other teams, including the 2019 Astros, used technology to aid hitters,
Play 02:38 From Lower Dir to top tier, the Naseem Shah story Waqar Younis has backed Pakistan’s young pace bowlers not to be intimidated in the two Tests against Australia but has warned them about getting carried away by the conditions they are likely to face. Pakistan, who have never won a series in Australia,
9:49 AM ET Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby underwent surgery for a core muscle injury Thursday and is out a minimum of six weeks, the team announced. General manager Jim Rutherford said that the surgery was performed by Dr. William Meyers of the Vincera Institute in Philadelphia. The team said in a statement that Crosby
9:33 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Eight days ago, New York Jets CEO Christopher Johnson gathered the team off the practice field. It got quiet. Some players wondered, “Why is the owner talking to us?” Johnson isn’t a spotlight guy, not a big talker, so his impromptu meeting caught many by surprise. In his
9:50 AM GMT The Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) has agreed to pay a £70,000 fine after comments made by its representatives about Typhoon Hagibis were found to have amounted to misconduct and “brought the game into disrepute”. The SRU was also ordered to issue a “meaningful” written apology to World Rugby for the comments —
1:00 PM ET Wayne Gretzky is a total Hockey Hall of Fame nerd, to the point that he would wear a disguise to walk through its exhibits and marinate in its antiquity. Considering that half the stuff there used to be in Wayne’s bedroom, I’m sure it’s a little like Elvis touring Graceland. But that
Sep 28, 2019 Dan Rafael Close ESPN Senior Writer 2013 BWAA Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism ESPN.com boxing writer since 2005 Five years at USA Today Steve Kim Heavyweight world titlist Deontay Wilder and Luis “King Kong” Ortiz put on one of the best fights of 2018, a dramatic, hard-hitting affair
6:00 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — Quarterback Carson Wentz will square off against Tom Brady for the first time in his career when the Philadelphia Eagles host the New England Patriots on Sunday (4:25 p.m. ET, CBS). “It’s always cool to play a competitor like him, arguably one of the best ever,” Wentz said Wednesday. “Ton
8:45 AM ET The National Women’s Hockey League closed a new round of equity funding on Thursday. The NWHL now has a group of more than 20 investors, including Neil Leibman, a co-owner of MLB’s Texas Rangers, Joel Leonoff, the Vice Chairman of the PaySafe Group, Michael Gilfillan, the former co-owner of the New Jersey