12:24 PM ET Second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas clawed his way back from a set and a break down to beat Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz 6-7(2) 6-3 6-1 and reach the last-16 of the Rotterdam Open on Tuesday. Tsitsipas reacted well to going 2-0 down in the second set, fighting back strongly to beat Hurkacz, who was
Month: February 2020
12:24 PM ET Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid will miss two to three weeks with a left quadriceps injury, according to general manager Ken Holland. McDavid, 23, was injured in Saturday’s 3-2 win over the Nashville Predators. He practiced Monday, but his status for Tuesday’s game against the Chicago Blackhawks had been up in the
12:16 PM ET Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A judge Tuesday set an October trial date for a man charged with conspiring with the ex-wife of Lorenzen Wright to kill the former NBA player more than nine years ago in Memphis. Shelby County Judge Lee Coffee told Billy Ray Turner during a court hearing that
12:24 PM ET Canadian teenager Felix Auger-Aliassime outlasted Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff to win 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 and advance to the last-16 of the Rotterdam Open on Tuesday. The 19-year-old Auger-Aliassime, who had his breakthrough season last year when he climbed up to world No. 17, nearly threw it away in the second set when he
12:27 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge Tuesday scheduled the first hearing in Ohio for a man accused of threatening a shooting at Ohio State and vowing to hurt players on the football team. A September indictment unsealed late last year in federal court in Columbus accuses Daniel Rippy of making
11:30 AM ET After Joel Sherman’s report on the revamping of the baseball playoffs was published Monday in the New York Post, the Reds’ Trevor Bauer was among many who reacted strongly on Twitter. No idea who made this new playoff format proposal, but Rob is responsible for releasing it, so I’ll direct this to
4:43 PM GMT Ben Foakes says he has got his “enjoyment and determination back” ahead of England’s Test series in Sri Lanka next month, after feeling like he had lost his love for the game during a difficult 2019 season. Foakes starred on England’s last trip to Sri Lanka, hitting 107 on Test debut and
8:11 AM ET Ryan Garcia, the 2017 prospect of the year, appears to be on the verge of big things in boxing. Since being recognized as boxing’s top prospect, Garcia has moved up in weight from junior lightweight to lightweight and won six more fights in a row — four by knockout — while increasing
10:43 AM ET ESPN News Services Colorado Avalanche forward Nazem Kadri is out indefinitely with a lower-body injury, coach Jared Bednar told Altitude Sports Radio on Tuesday. Bednar also said after morning skate that Kadri will be out “weeks, not days.” Kadri left Sunday’s 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Wild with an injury after an
7:30 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” IN LATE MARCH 2019, the Orange Coast College baseball team lost two games in a row. For the powerhouse junior college program, this constituted a mini-crisis. As OCC’s coach, John Altobelli, searched