4:36 PM ET ESPN News Services As spring training nears, the Houston Astros‘ sign-stealing scandal continues to be the centerpiece of the baseball world, with players, past and present, speaking out seemingly daily. On Monday, former major league pitcher Mike Bolsinger entered the mix with a potential precedent-setting civil lawsuit. Bolsinger — hardly the largest
Month: February 2020
4:47 PM ET Associated Press PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Jeurys Familia and Edwin Diaz hope improved nutrition will lead to better results. Familia weighed 270 pounds at the end of last season, when he was 4-2 with a 5.70 ERA, allowing 62 hits in 60 innings with 63 strikeouts and 42 walks. The 6-foot-3
4:56 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — The Arizona Diamondbacks capped a busy offseason by locking down their two-time Gold Glove shortstop, who has slowly turned into a solid offensive threat. The D-backs announced Monday that they’ve agreed to a $32.5 million, four-year deal with Nick Ahmed that runs through the 2023 season. The 29-year-old
4:29 PM GMT Scotland coach Gregor Townsend has said that it has been made “clear” that fly-half Finn Russell can have a future with Scottish Rugby but only if he can “accept and adhere” to the standards of the team. The comments were made by Townsend in a statement on Monday afternoon after Russell gave
4:37 PM ET The most recent tests on former Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa show that his fractured hip has healed and he has good range of motion, sources confirmed to ESPN. Tagovailoa, projected as a first-round pick in April’s NFL draft, could get back to football activities in a month if he continues to progress
4:28 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — Hendrick Motorsports has agreed to a five-year extension with primary sponsor Axalta through the 2027 season. Axalta will be a primary sponsor of the No. 24 team with driver William Byron for 14 Cup Series races each year beginning in 2021. Axalta is a primary sponsor of
8:00 AM ET RIVER OAKS, Texas — Montana De La Rosa does the standard after-school parenting drill. Piloting her Ford Explorer with her husband, Mark De La Rosa, seated in the passenger seat and her daughter, Zaylyn Woods, in the back, Montana tries to pry the day’s details out of her third-grader. The math test?
3:19 PM ET Dominick Reyes got a chance to talk very briefly with Jon Jones inside the Octagon after their hard-fought UFC light heavyweight title fight last Saturday night. Reyes pushed Jones to the brink, but Jones, the longtime champion, held on for an extremely close unanimous decision win (48-47, 48-47, 49-46) in the main
3:21 PM GMT Glasgow Warriors lock Jonny Gray has been ruled out of the remainder of the Six Nations due to a hand injury. Gray, 25, has featured in both of Scotland’s championship defeats this campaign including their 13-6 loss to England on Saturday. – ESPN Fantasy Rugby is back! Click here to pick your
3:53 PM ET Artis Mack, the older brother of undisputed women’s middleweight and unified junior middleweight world champion Claressa Shields, reached a plea deal on Monday in the shocking weigh-in attack on James Ali Bashir, the trainer of a Shields opponent. Mack, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor aggravated assault in the 67th