1:47 PM ET The Minnesota Wild will be without defenseman Jared Spurgeon for about two weeks, while team captain Mikko Koivu is considered day-to-day after both players were injured during Tuesday’s win over the Florida Panthers. The team said Spurgeon suffered an upper-body injury in the first period of the 4-2 win. Spurgeon, 30, has
Month: December 2019
1:31 PM ET When the International Boxing Hall of Fame ballot was released in late September it had swelled to 41 fighters in the modern boxer category because of tweaks made to when a fighter could be eligible for the first time. But as many greats as there were on the ballot, three first-timers stood
11:20 AM ET After Ohio State beat Michigan in the final game of the regular season, head coach Ryan Day acknowledged the pressure he felt coaching in the rivalry game: that he was following in the footsteps of Urban Meyer, that he would be judged on the outcome and that the magnitude of winning that
6:45 AM ET NFL NationESPN Washington fired the first NFL head coach of the 2019 cycle when it parted ways with Jay Gruden in October. On Tuesday, the Panthers fired Ron Rivera. He won’t be the last. Eight coaches were let go last year, the eighth straight season with at least six head coach openings.
12:40 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Lamar Jackson could pass his childhood idol Sunday. Jackson is on pace to break Michael Vick‘s single-season rushing record for quarterbacks when the Baltimore Ravens (10-2) play at the Buffalo Bills (9-3). “It’d be an honor,” Jackson said Wednesday. “Mike Vick’s my favorite player. For me to do
7:00 AM ET Bill Peters resigned as coach of the Calgary Flames on Nov. 29 after it was revealed he used racial slurs toward one of his minor league players a decade ago. The resignation was the culmination of a tense week for the NHL, though things haven’t exactly eased up. Peters isn’t the only
12:15 PM ET PITTSBURGH — A jovial Maurkice Pouncey didn’t have any regrets about his role in the fight between Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph and Browns defensive end Myles Garrett three weeks ago in Cleveland. Pouncey, who served a two-game suspension, was gregarious and light-hearted while speaking publicly Wednesday for the first time since the
11:49 AM ET San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane was fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for elbowing Capitals defenseman Radko Gudas, the league announced Wednesday. With just over five minutes left in Tuesday night’s game in San Jose, Kane and Gudas were skating to a loose puck. Kane raised his right glove,
11:09 AM ET Eli Manning is “very likely” to start at quarterback for the New York Giants with Daniel Jones suffering from a moderate high ankle sprain, coach Pat Shurmur said Wednesday. The Giants, who have lost eight in a row, face the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night. Jones is in a boot and didn’t
12:50 PM GMT The British and Irish Lions are set to play in front of a record crowd when they travel to South Africa in 2021. The first test will be played at the 88,000 capacity FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on July 24 where a sell-out crowd would surpass the Lions’ previous attendance record of