11:29 AM ET Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby will play Tuesday against the Minnesota Wild after missing two months while recovering from core muscle surgery. Crosby, 32, has been out since undergoing the surgery on Nov. 14. The star center had been dealing with a sports hernia since training camp and reportedly had hoped to
Month: January 2020
12:00 PM ET The grumbling around the game was thick after MLB commissioner Rob Manfred rendered discipline in the Houston Astros‘ sign-stealing case Monday, because while two individuals got hammered, the institution that stood to glean enormous benefit from the systemic illicit behavior was mostly left untouched, the players who participated left unscathed. The Astros
8:30 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The kneecapping of the Houston Astros went off Monday in exquisite fashion. Big names were fired. Draft picks were revoked. A record fine was levied. Pounds of flesh were exacted from egregious
1:52 PM ET Everyone complains about slow play. It’s definitely the easiest subject to get people to threaten they will stop watching golf. So what’s the truth from inside the ropes? This week, the PGA Tour announced some changes with the intention of getting players to pick up the pace. Will it work? We recently
10:52 AM ET Brooks Koepka said Tuesday he felt “excruciating” pain after re-tearing the patella tendon in his left knee when he slipped on wet concrete in October, forcing him to miss nearly three months. Koepka, the No. 1-ranked player in the world who is making his 2020 debut at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship
10:36 AM ET Retired NFL receiver Chad Johnson has a tryout scheduled for Monday with the XFL as a kicker, he announced via Twitter. A source confirmed that, as of now, the tryout is real. The opportunity to kick in the XFL has presented itself, i must tryout Monday in Houston, I’m excited as hell
3:30 PM ET Every week, we’ll mine the waiver wire for lesser-owned assets to help your squad, whether you favor dynasty or the redraft format, and we’ll also toss in some tips for DFS players out there. Finally, we will look at some former go-to fantasy assets who may be overvalued – in the short-
1. David Pastrnak, LW, Bos LW1 1 2. Connor McDavid, C, Edm C1 2 3. Nathan MacKinnon, C, Col C2 3 4. Jack Eichel, C, Buf C3 4 5. Brad Marchand, LW, Bos LW2 5 6. John Carlson, D, Was D1 6 7. Nikita Kucherov, RW, TB RW1 7 8. Leon Draisaitl, C, Edm C4
10:42 AM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR has changed the rules on its aerodynamic package for short tracks and road courses because the racing didn’t improve at those venues under rules introduced last season. NASCAR had been fairly adamant the rules package would remain unchanged but reversed course late last season when it
11:51 AM ET ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — This seaside home to several resorts and casinos was a boxing hotbed for much of the 1980s through the 2000s. From 2000, when I began covering boxing full time for USA Today, through 2014, I covered dozens of fight cards in Atlantic City, including the final nine bouts