5:56 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The St. Louis Cardinals are acquiring pitching prospect Matt Liberatore, one of the top left-handed arms in the minor leagues, in a trade expected to send major league outfield help to the
Month: January 2020
5:51 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The bye week was good to the San Francisco 49ers, who are about as healthy as they’ve been since Week 3 at the most opportune time. For Saturday’s NFC divisional playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings, the Niners are likely to welcome four key players back from injury.
5:44 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Newly hired New York Giants coach Joe Judge isn’t Bill Belichick or Nick Saban. He just worked under them. Judge might be bringing similar ideas and values to the Giants. He still insists he’s not them, despite all the valuable lessons learned during 10 years under the two
PHILADELPHIA — Joel Embiid is having surgery to repair a torn radial collateral ligament in the ring finger of his left hand Friday morning, the team said Thursday night. Embiid met with a hand specialist before Thursday night’s game against the Boston Celtics at Wells Fargo Center, where the determination for him to have surgery
5:15 PM ET ASHBURN, Va. — The Washington Redskins continue to remake their front office under new coach Ron Rivera, parting ways with their longtime salary cap expert Eric Schaffer and creating a new role for personnel executive Doug Williams. Schaffer’s parting was mutual, a source said, and became inevitable a week ago when they
9:30 AM ET ESPN staff It’s a perfect day in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Chamabondo Primary School is buzzing with excitement. It’s August 2019, and with the help of Africa Outreach USA’s (AOUSA) Jack Ramsay Development Grassroots Basketball Initiative, the town is dedicating the court and celebrating its completion. And they should celebrate — they built
Jan 9, 2020 Anthony Gulizia As Al Michaels called the remaining seconds of the United States’ 4-3 victory over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Olympics, he turned a phrase that set a new bar for how improbable, iconic sports moments are remembered. “Eleven seconds, you’ve got 10 seconds, the countdown going on right now,”
4:08 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — A man was arrested and escorted out of the arena after throwing a can of hard seltzer onto the court near the San Antonio Spurs bench during Wednesday night’s game with the Boston Celtics, Boston police said Thursday. Justin Arnold, 22, of Everett, was charged with disturbing a
3:39 PM ET Chinese promoter Longjoy Sports on Thursday defaulted on its winning purse to gain promotional rights to the fight between unified light heavyweight world champion Artur Beterbiev and mandatory challenger Meng Fanlong — meaning Top Rank, the only other bidder in last month’s auction, will now control the bout. Top Rank vice president
3:53 PM ET Associated Press Former Auburn star and Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley can add a new feat to his resume: being the first to donate $1 million to Miles College, a historically black institution in Fairfield, Alabama. Barkley told interim president Bobbie Knight about the donation on Wednesday, news outlets reported. “I’ve